FortiGate Administrator (Coursera)

This course is part of the Fortinet Network Security Specialization.

What you'll learn

How to use the most common FortiGate features.

Syllabus

Introduction and Initial Configuration

In this lesson, you will learn about system and network settings on FortiGate.

Firewall Policies

In this lesson, you will learn about firewall policies and how to apply them to allow and deny traffic passing through FortiGate. At its core, FortiGate is a firewall, so almost everything that it does to your traffic is linked to your firewall policies.In this lesson, you will learn how to configure network address translation (NAT) and use it to implement source NAT (SNAT) and destination NAT (DNAT) for the traffic passing through FortiGate.

Routing

In this lesson, you will learn about the routing capabilities and features available on FortiGate.

Firewall Authentication

In this lesson, you will learn about using authentication on the firewall policies of FortiGate.

SSL-VPN

In this lesson, you will learn how to configure and use SSL VPNs. SSL VPNs are an easy way to give remote users access to your private network.

Web Filtering

In this lesson, you will learn how to configure web filtering on FortiGate to control web traffic in your network.

Application Control

In this lesson, you will learn how to use FortiGate to protect your network against intrusions and how to monitor and control network applications that may use standard or non-standard protocols and ports—beyond simply blocking or allowing a protocol, port number, or IP address.