Troubleshooting FortiSwitch Without Guesswork
Switch failures often reach the network team as vague symptoms: wireless clients cannot obtain addresses, a branch loses access to a file…
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FortiGate administration
Firewall administration and operational configuration.
Fortinet certifications span firewall administration, switching, management and more complex security operations. Work on FortiGate configuration becomes more meaningful when connected to network segments, policy evaluation, diagnostics and the evidence needed to recover from failures.
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FortiGate administration
Firewall administration and operational configuration.
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FortiSwitch VLANs and Secure Port Access
VLAN design and secure access are often treated as separate switch features, yet they meet at the exact moment an endpoint joins…
Read articleManaging FortiSwitch Networks with FortiLink
A switch estate becomes difficult to operate when the team cannot tell whether a configuration was set locally, inherited from a controller…
Read articleFortinet NSE7_FSN_AR-7.6: Advanced Firewall Troubleshooting
An application fails for one branch office while other locations remain unaffected. The policy appears to allow the service and the WAN…
Read articleFortinet NSE7_FSN_AR-7.6: High Availability That Survives Failure
A pair of security appliances is often described as redundant, yet application users may still experience downtime when a firewall fails. One…
Read articleFortinet NSE7_FSN_AR-7.6: Segmentation and Secure Access
Network segmentation becomes difficult when users, applications and administrators cross several trust boundaries in one business process. A hospital, for example, may…
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