Getting Started with Fortigate

by Fabrizio Volpe, Fabbri Rosato

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782178200
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	11/25/2013
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Fabrizio Volpe has been working with the Iccrea Banking Group since 2000, as a network and systems administrator.

He is part of the Microsoft Technologies workgroup in Iccrea Banca, managing more than 2000 users at their central site, a nationwide network of branch offices, and providing services for more than 400 banks.

Since 2011, he has been awarded MVP on Directory Services from Microsoft, and is focused on Windows systems and security, unified communication, and virtualization.

Prior to the Iccrea Group, Fabrizio has collaborated with various IT companies, focused on Windows, security, networking, and messaging / unified communication products.

Since 2000, he has presented many events and conferences (Italian and international ones).

Fabrizio is committed to create contents that are accessible to a wide number of people, so he publishes content really often on SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/fabriziov), on his Lync2013 channel on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/lync2013), and on his personal blog (http://blog.lync2013.org).