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FortiGate – Configuration (Part 4) – Administration and Management setup | Active Directory Setup | Administration with AD Group Membership

Having multiple administrators managing your Security devices is common practice, every user that is supposed to have access to a Firewall should have access to it. This needs to be controlled by an identity server; in this case, we will use Microsoft Active Directory. Looking to catch up up the FortiGate Series? – Make sure […]

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FortiGate – Configuration Series

Hey there, I created a quick series that goes over Fortinet Configuration. Initially, this series goes over simple configuration tasks Let me know if this is helpful FortiGate Configuration Series Main Post FortiGate – Configuration (Part 1) – Interfaces and Getting Started FortiGate – Configuration (Part 2) – Static Routes | Firewall Policies | Port

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FortiGate – Configuration (Part 3) – Web Filtering | Read-only SSL handshake inspection | Troubleshooting | Adding FortiGate CA Certificate to Windows 10

The Security Profile – Web Filter FortiOS has a neat section for all the Security Profiles; this GUI is straightforward and intuitive. So let’s see what we have by default. Looking to catch up up the FortiGate Series? – Make sure you check the Main Page for it –> FortiGate – Configuration Series. From the

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FortiGate – Configuration (Part 2) – Static Routes | Firewall Policies | Port Address Translation for Internet

TO pick up right where we left off, we will configure Static Routes to the providers, Security Policies (Allowing Traffic to the Internet), and NAT Looking to catch up up the FortiGate Series? – Make sure you check the Main Page for it –> FortiGate – Configuration Series. The Diagram Static Routes ISP This part

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Palo Alto Networks – PCNSE Certification Part 6: Basic Configuration (Destination NAT and Security Policy)

The last post was very long and a bit crazy all over the place, but here we are continuing with it. To illustrate how to crate a destination NAT, we will be opening FTP to one of our DMZ server, so lets get started Create Object Under Objects -> Services we will create our new

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Palo Alto Networks – PCNSE Certification Part 5: Basic Configuration (Security Policies, source NAT)

Create Tags One thing that I really appreciate from PANOS is the introduction of TAGs, they are very handy when you are looking for policies, objects and many different things in your firewall. I know many of you out there appreciate the feature. Tags are color-coded labels and enable you to group, sort, and filter

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Palo Alto Networks – PCNSE Certification Part 4: Basic Configuration (Interfaces)

This quick lab is going to be about creating Zones, assigning them to interfaces, Management Interface configuration Creating a Zone We will create the Outside Zone and we are going to add a name + selecting the type, nothing fancy, but later in the lab we will use it and go through configuring more features

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Palo Alto Networks – PCNSE Certification Part 3: Basic Configuration (Admin Roles)

So I continue my journey to get this cert, I think I have procrastinated for too long and I need to get back to learning all the ins and outs for the technology. Again this certification is very heavy on configuration, HA concepts and maybe scattered between all their main Objectives. We are going to

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