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Getting Started with FortiGate

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Getting Started with FortiGate

Overview of this book

FortiGate from Fortinet is a highly successful family of appliances enabled to manage routing and security on different layers, supporting dynamic protocols, IPSEC and VPN with SSL, application and user control, web contents and mail scanning, endpoint checks, and more, all in a single platform. The heart of the appliance is the FortiOS (FortiOS 5 is the latest release) which is able to unify a friendly web interface with a powerful command line to deliver high performance. FortiGate is able to give users the results they usually achieve at a fraction of the cost of what they would have to invest with other vendors.This practical, hands-on guide addresses all the tasks required to configure and manage a FortiGate unit in a logical order. The book starts with topics related to VLAN and routing (static and advanced) and then discusses in full the UTM features integrated in the appliance. The text explains SSL VPN and IPSEC VPN with all the required steps you need to deploy the aforementioned solutions. High availability and troubleshooting techniques are also explained in the last two chapters of the book.This concise, example-oriented book explores all the concepts you need to administer a FortiGate unit. You will begin by covering the basic tools required to administer a FortiGate unit, including NAT, routing, and VLANs. You will then be guided through the concepts of firewalling, UTM inside the appliance, tunnelling using SSL, and IPSEC and dial-up configurations. Next, you will get acquainted with important topics like high availability and Vdoms. Finally, you will end the book with an overview of troubleshooting tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Marco Alamanni has professional experience working as a Linux System Administrator and Information Security Administrator in banks and financial institutions, in Italy and Peru. He holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and an M.Sc in Information Security. His interests in information technology include ethical hacking, digital forensics, malware analysis, Linux, and programming, among others. He also collaborates with IT magazines, writing articles on Linux and IT Security.

Andreas Felder attended Rochester Institute of Technology and earned his Bachelor's degree in Applied Networking and System Administration as well as Information Security and Forensics. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Networking and System Administration. He has been working for six years as a System Administrator, with partial responsibility for the implementation and maintenance of the entire network and systems infrastructure, including several FortiGate firewalls.

Sebastian Knoop-Troullier has been firmly entrenched in the field of Information Security for over 15 years. He has more than 10 years experience in working with Fortinet products and also publishes the "Firewall Guru" blog, a real-world resource for Fortinet firewalls.