Fortinet NSE4 - FortiOS Administrator

What?

In this course, you will learn how to use the most common FortiGate features.

In interactive labs, you will explore firewall policies, user authentication, high availability, logging and monitoring, site-to-site IPsec VPN, FortiGate in Cloud, FortiSASE, and how to protect your network using security profiles, such as IPS, antivirus, web filtering, application control, and more. These administration fundamentals will provide you with a solid understanding of how to implement the most common FortiGate features.

Price: FREE €2595 (excl. training package)

Training package including e-books and Labs: €470

Optional: If you would also like to receive the paper book, please indicate this in the form.

Language : English

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Configure FortiGate basic networking from factory default settings
• Configure and control administrator access to FortiGate
• Use the GUI and CLI for administration
• Describe methods of device registration
• View and search for logs on FortiGate and FortiAnalyzer
• Configure IPv4 firewall policies
• Apply port forwarding, source NAT, and destination NAT
• Analyze a FortiGate route table
• Configure static routing
• Implement route redundancy and load balancing
• Configure a remote LDAP and RADIUS authentication server on FortiGate
• Monitor firewall users from the FortiGate GUI
• Deploy Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) access to network services, integrated with Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
• Describe encryption functions and certificates
• Describe SSL inspection on FortiGate
• Configure security profiles to neutralize threats and misuse, including viruses, torrents, and inappropriate websites
• Apply application control techniques to monitor and control network applications that might use standard or non-standard protocols and ports
• Configure IPsec VPN using the IPsec wizard and manual process
• Configure SD-WAN and verify traffic distribution
• Identify the primary and secondary device tasks in an HA cluster
• Identify the different operation modes for HA with the FortiGate Clustering Protocol (FGCP)
• Diagnose and correct common problems
• Identify FortiGate VM and FortiGate CNF in the cloud
• Identify FortiSASE and various FortiSASE use cases

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of network protocols
• Basic understanding of firewall concepts

Who should attend?

You should have a thorough understanding of all the topics covered in the FortiGate Operator course before attending the FortiGate Administrator course.

Networking and security professionals involved in the management, configuration, administration, and monitoring of FortiGate devices used to secure their organizations’ networks should attend this course.

Register here

If you are an end customer, please contact your Fortinet reseller to submit your registration. Only submissions done by Fortinet resellers will be processed.

Registrations open until 7 January or until full:

Location

Infinigate Belgium

Blarenberglaan 3B, 2800 Mechelen

Course Duration

Total course duration (estimated): 4 days (covered in 2 weeks)

The training sessions are scheduled for January 14-15 and January 19-20, 2027.

Agenda

• System and Network Settings
• Logging and Monitoring
• Firewall Policies and NAT
• Routing
• Firewall Authentication
• Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO)
• Certificate Operations
• Antivirus
• Web Filtering
• Intrusion Prevention and Application Control
• IPsec VPN
• SD-WAN Configuration and Monitoring
• High Availability
• Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
• FortiGate in the Cloud
• FortiSASE

Trainer

Santi Meremans – Presales engineer Infinigate Belgium