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Wi-Fi 6E brings Wi-Fi into 6GHz Spectrum

[Recap] It’s now been about 2 years since Wi-Fi 6 Access Points first showed up on the market, and about one year since we first looked at Wi-Fi 6 last year on our FortiCast podcast (link) where we ta...

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Calling for Bloggers

Are you a Fortinet Expert and interested in sharing your technology & industry expertise with your peers? If so, here comes an opportunity to showcase your knowledge, and show-off a Blogger badge on y...

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Early Threat Detection and Automated Incident Response

Networks are undergoing fundamental changes fuelled by the accelerated adoption of BYOD, the Internet of Things, and the cloud-first strategy. The new dynamic affects the efficiency of traditional net...

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What's new in the Fuse Community!

Fuse community just got an update! The latest site provides a refreshing look and feel, simplified UI, enhanced functionality for user engagement & group administration and opportunities for leadershi...

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Veterans Employment Toolkit

Veterans bring valuable skills and experience from their military service to your workforce. This toolkit is designed to help you better understand how Veterans can be valuable assets to your company....

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Bi-directional DNAT on FortiGate Firewalls

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 on FortiOS) or Central NAT you normally want bidirect...

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Separate VRF for Out-of-Band Management in FortiOS

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 this case, a VRF which stands for Virtual Routing a...

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Deploying SSL VPNs Using Multiple Realms

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 them. When a customer tells me they want to assign...

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EMS for Internal and External FortiClients

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. Is seems that there is some confusion so I decided ...

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Anti-SPAM Feature on FortiGate Firewalls

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: You will require the UTM, Enterprise or the ala ca...

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VWire with FortiGate Firewalls

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 interfaces do NOT have an IP address assigned to eit...

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FortiSOAR Overview and Use Cases

FortiSOAR™ is a holistic and enterprise-built security orchestration and security automation workbench that empowers security operation teams. FortiSOAR™ increases a team’s effectiveness by increasing...

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Return-to-Work Toolkit for Employees & Employers

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 productivity, but also its morale. This toolkit ...

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Connect to both Fortigates in an HA Cluster Separately

When you configure a FortiGate in HA, normally, there is no way connect to the second box unless you ssh to the master and then connect via it to the secondary. The only way to connect to the secondar...

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Binding to LDAP with Minimum Access

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 (PoC), and I tell a prospective customer to create...

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Free Online NSE Training until the end of 2020

Fortinet announced today it is opening the entire online, self-paced catalogue of advanced Network Security Expert training courses for free. Fortinet is making 24 advanced security courses available ...

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Syslog Filtering on FortiGate Firewall & Syslog-NG

We recommend sending FortiGate logs to a FortiAnalyzer as it produces great reports and great, usable information. However sometimes, you need to send logs to other platforms such as SIEMs. When sendi...

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2-Factor Auth Using Email on FortiGate

Putting together a presentation I am giving to some customers and decided I wanted to put together an article with a topic that is rarely discussed. The FortiGate firewall can do two-factor authentica...

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