Start here if firewalls or Fortinet are new to you. The course explains the ideas the other Fortinet courses build on, so the NSE 4 path, FortiGate Administration and FortiManager Administration can concentrate on configuration and operations. You need IP addressing and basic routing; the Network Fundamentals course covers both.
The course is being written lesson by lesson. Planned lessons are listed so you can see where it is going; they become links when they are published.
RouteLearn is an independent educational resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Fortinet. Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiOS, FortiManager and FortiGuard are trademarks of Fortinet, Inc. FortiOS 7.6 and FortiManager 7.6 are the baseline; each lesson states the release it was written for and whether FortiOS 7.4 has been reviewed. Example output is illustrative, based on Fortinet documentation.
What's in this course
4 modules · 1 lesson available, 9 more planned · about 1 hour of reading
Module 1: Introduction to Network Security
What firewalls protect against, how stateless, stateful and next-generation firewalls differ, and where firewalls sit in a network.
- 1.1Network security and common threatsComing soon
- 1.2Stateless, stateful and next-generation firewallsComing soon
- 1.3Firewall placement, segmentation and zero trustComing soon
Module 2: Introduction to Fortinet
The Fortinet product family, how FortiOS is built, and how FortiGuard and the Security Fabric connect the products.
- 2.1The Fortinet product family and the Security FabricComing soon
- 2.2FortiOS architecture and FortiGuard servicesComing soon
Module 3: FortiGate Hardware
Ports, security processors and hardware acceleration, and how to read a FortiGate data sheet when sizing a firewall.
- 3.1FortiGate interfaces, management, console and HA portsComing soon
- 3.2Security processors and hardware accelerationComing soon
- 3.3Sizing a FortiGate: throughput, inspection and sessionsComing soon
Module 4: Firewall Packet Processing
How a FortiGate handles the first packet of a session and every packet after it, and how to watch it happen.
- 4.1Understanding FortiGate firewall packet flow30 min · Intermediate30 min · Intermediate
- 4.2Flow-based and proxy-based inspection in the packet pathComing soon