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FortiGate Firewall Training from Scratch is a comprehensive program designed to equip learners with the fundamental and advanced concepts of FortiGate firewalls. The course covers essential topics such as firewall basics, routing, security policies, NAT, VPN configurations, high availability, security profiles, and advanced features like VDOMs and SSL decryption. Through hands-on labs and step-by-step guidance, participants will gain practical experience in configuring, managing, and troubleshooting FortiGate firewalls, making them proficient in network security and firewall deployment. 1. Firewall Basics • Overview of firewalls and FortiGate firewall. • Understand the concepts of firewalls. • Perform initial configuration and Lab setups for accessing and managing FortiGate (Telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS). 2. Routing • Basic Routing: Static, default routing. • Advanced Routing: BGP, OSPF and Policy-based Routing. 3. Security and NAT Policies • Introduction to NAT concepts and Security Policies • Network Address Translation (NAT) for IPv4, including static, Dynamic NAT, PAT, Source NAT, and destination NAT. • Understands 5-Tuple of the packets • Configuration of Security Policies • Configuration of NAT Policies. • Centralized NAT 4. VPNs • Concepts of Site-to-Site VPNs (IKEv1 and IKEv2) and Remote Access VPN (RA-VPN) • Configuring Site-to-site VPNs • Configuring Remote Access VPN • Forticlient Set-up • Fortinet-specific VPNs: Dialup VPN and Auto Discovery VPN (ADVPN). • Troubleshooting Command VPN issues. 5. Firewall Deployment • Transparent firewall and Virtual Wire (vWire) setups. • Labs for Deployments 6. High Availability (HA) • Concepts of active-passive and active-active HA. • Step-by-step labs on configuring HA environments. 8. Administrative Features • Admin profiles • Centralized management with FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager. 9. Security Profiles • Application control • Antivirus • File filtering • Web filtering profiles. And many more.