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sam653
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October 16, 2024
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SSLVPN failed user login attempts constantly been seen

  • October 16, 2024
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Hello,

 

I am seeing constant alerts on my Fortigate under sslvpn events "sslvpn login failed"

 

This is not coming from the authorized users. Is there anything that can be done on it.

 

 

Thanks

Best answer by sprashant

Hello @sam653 

 

You can refer to following resource:

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-FortiGate-SSL-VPN-best-practices-guide/ta-p/331260

 

This will walk you over the steps to strengthen the SSL VPN

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sprashant
Staff
sprashantAnswer
Staff
October 16, 2024

Hello @sam653 

 

You can refer to following resource:

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-FortiGate-SSL-VPN-best-practices-guide/ta-p/331260

 

This will walk you over the steps to strengthen the SSL VPN

hjhajj
Staff
Staff
October 16, 2024

Hello @sam653 

In  addition to the  above  given  document, Kindly also refer to the following document which explains how to secure and limit an SSL VPN unknown user login

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-secure-and-limit-an-SSL-VPN-unknown-user/ta-p/224096

Thanks and Regards,
Harmandeep Kaur Jhajj

 

Sgagan
Staff
Staff
October 16, 2024

Greetings @sam653 

You can also configure an automation stitch in order to permanently block failed login attempts:
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-permanently-block-SSL-VPN-failed-logins/ta-p/287171

vbandha
Staff
Staff
October 17, 2024

Hello @sam653 

One other option to block these attempts is via local in policy.

 

With local in policy the attempt is blocked before any processing is done by fortigate so this will not generate any logs. 

Here is an article with more information on this:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.16/cookbook/363127/local-in-policies

 

You can use geo location address object in source if the attempts are coming from specific countries:

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-block-by-country-or-geolocation/ta-p/196741

 

Regards,

Varun

FortiArt
Staff
Staff
October 17, 2024

Try to use ZTNA rather than sslvpn as this is more secure as per:

 

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.0.0/new-features/194961/basic-ztna-configuration

 

Hope this help