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PeterM
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December 16, 2019
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High SMTP Auth Failure alert

  • December 16, 2019
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Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience in creating a custom alert in Fortimail upon high SMTP Auth Failures.

I checked the guide, but i couldn't figure out of this was possible at all.

I found how to create custom alerts, but i can't seem to figure out if this can be applied to high SMTP auth failures.

What i would like to do is get an alert when smtp auth failures are high from ip x.x.x.x

 

Thanks p

    Best answer by khassan_FTNT

    Hi Peter,

    Using firmware 6.0.7, under Security menu > Authentication Reputation you can monitor or block too many authentication attempts.

    To trigger alerts you'd need FortiAnalyzer.

    Thanks,

    Khaled.

    3 replies

    khassan_FTNT
    Staff
    Staff
    December 16, 2019

    Hi Peter,

    Using firmware 6.0.7, under Security menu > Authentication Reputation you can monitor or block too many authentication attempts.

    To trigger alerts you'd need FortiAnalyzer.

    Thanks,

    Khaled.

    PeterM
    PeterMAuthor
    New Member
    December 17, 2019

    Hi Khaled,

    This is exactly what i was looking for, thank you for the information.

    We do have fortianalyzer but not linked to our Fortimail (cloud service).

    I will look into that however!

    Much appreciated.

     

    Peter

    Hosemacht
    Explorer
    December 17, 2019

    hey there,

     

    you could also disable smtp auth via cli:

     

    config system mailserver - set smtp-auth disable

     

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