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What's new in the Fuse Community!

By Swathi posted 5 days ago
Fuse community just got an update! The latest site provides a refreshing look and feel, simplified UI, enhanced functionality for user engagement & ...
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Early Threat Detection and Automated Incident Response

By Lukas posted 6 days ago
Networks are undergoing fundamental changes fuelled by the accelerated adoption of BYOD, the Internet of Things, and the cloud-first strategy. The new ...
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Extending Next Generation FortiGate Firewalls to Kubernetes With Calico Enterprise

By John posted 29 days ago
Container use continues to grow, and Kubernetes is the most widely adopted container orchestration system, managing nearly half of all container deployments. ...
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Bi-directional DNAT on FortiGate Firewalls

By Manny posted May 28, 2020
I am a BIG supporter of Central NAT . I believe it is in-line with the present day firewall platforms. Even if you use Policy NAT (the original way ...
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Separate VRF for Out-of-Band Management in FortiOS

By Manny posted May 28, 2020
I am currently running FortiOS 6.4 on this FortiGate. The use case is to have an out-of-band interface that points to a separate routing table or in ...
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Multi-Factor Authentication with FortiToken, FortiAuthenticator and FortiGate

By Manny posted May 26, 2020
Today, a customer asked me about selectively assigning FortiTokens to AD users using FortiAuthenticator. In this use case, I am going to use an AD group ...
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Deploying SSL VPNs Using Multiple Realms

By Manny posted May 26, 2020
Realms are a feature on the FortiGate that I have written about in the past, but I never really did a detailed dive into them and how and when to use ...
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EMS for Internal and External FortiClients

By Manny posted May 22, 2020
When deploying EMS in your environment, you want to make sure the users can communicate back to EMS when connected internally as well as externally. ...
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Anti-SPAM Feature on FortiGate Firewalls

By Manny posted May 16, 2020
Normally, I position FortiMail for anti-SPAM at customers. However, today I decided to play with the Anti-SPAM feature on the FortiGate itself. NOTE: ...
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VWire with FortiGate Firewalls

By Manny posted May 14, 2020
Although the FortGate CAN operate in transparent mode, I rarely used/use it. Fortinet introduced VWire which is a layer 2 pair of interfaces. These ...
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FortiSOAR Overview and Use Cases

By Amit posted May 12, 2020
FortiSOAR™ is a holistic and enterprise-built security orchestration and security automation workbench that empowers security operation teams. FortiSOAR™ ...
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Return-to-Work Toolkit for Employees & Employers

By Jay posted May 08, 2020
An organization's workforce is its most valuable asset. And when an employee can't work due to illness or injury, it impacts not only an organization's ...
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Binding to LDAP with Minimum Access

By Manny posted May 03, 2020
Most of the documentation out there will tell you to configure a Domain Admin user to perform LDAP authentication. When I am doing a Proof-of-Concept ...
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Free Online NSE Training until the end of 2020

By Melonia posted Apr 28, 2020
Fortinet announced today it is opening the entire online, self-paced catalogue of advanced Network Security Expert training courses for free. ...
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Syslog Filtering on FortiGate Firewall & Syslog-NG

By Manny posted Apr 27, 2020
We recommend sending FortiGate logs to a FortiAnalyzer as it produces great reports and great, usable information. However sometimes, you need to send ...
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