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fjulianom
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December 12, 2017
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About Application Control and IPS licenses

  • December 12, 2017
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Hi guys,

 

I have a customer's FortiGate without UTM licenses such as AntiVirus or Web Filtering. I have read that Application Control is a free service from release 5.6.1 on.

 

Application Control is now a free FortiGuard service and the database for Application Control signatures is separate from the IPS database

 

http://help.fortinet.com/fos50hlp/56/Content/FortiOS/fortigate-whats-new/Top-SecurityProfiles-app-control.htm

 

I can see that the FortiGate has the Application Control Signatures correctly updated, but the IPS licenses are expired since customer didn't purchase these type of licenses, and Application Control uses the IPS engine. Then, what is the impact of these mismatches? Will the FortiGate perform Application Control correctly?

 

 

Regards,

Julián

    Best answer by hmtay_FTNT

    Hi Julian,

     

    Yes, your Application Control will function normally. The IPS Definition is relatively updated 2-3 days ago. That's the right version.

     

    Homing

    1 reply

    fjulianom
    fjulianomAuthor
    Explorer II
    December 13, 2017

    Hi guys,

     

    Any tip?

     

    Regards,

    Julián

    hmtay_FTNT
    Staff
    hmtay_FTNTAnswer
    Staff
    December 15, 2017

    Hi Julian,

     

    Yes, your Application Control will function normally. The IPS Definition is relatively updated 2-3 days ago. That's the right version.

     

    Homing

    fjulianom
    fjulianomAuthor
    Explorer II
    December 15, 2017

    Hi Homing,

     

    Please, two more questions about this:

     

    1. Why was the IPS Definition updated if the FortiGate has no IPS license?

    2. What's the difference between IPS Definitions and IPS Engine?

     

    Regards,

    Julián

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