Basic introduction to FortiGate v7.2.0

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This video will be covering how to perform a basic installation of a FortiGate firewall. We will be looking at how the dashboards works, how to add and remove widgets. How to configure interfaces & policies and viewing general settings like logging & system settings.
Timestamps:
📕00:00 - Introduction
📕01:24 - Installing FortiGate VM
📕06:15 - Basic interface configuration
📕10:39 - FortiGate dashboard
📕13:36 - FortiGate interfaces
📕17:56 - FortiGate policies
📕26:10 - FortiView
📕27:12 - FortiGate logs
📕29:09 - FortiGate system settings
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[@ghostbiker7391]

I learned many things from you about MK cuz Im working for and ISP that use MK and now u start a new series about Forti that is also used by the same ISP u are really a great man thank you

[@TheNetworkBerg]

Glad I could help

[@derrysan]

I love fortigate, as it was saving a LOT of my time for configuring multi WAN & SD-WAN with failover. Less than 5 minutes configuration, and you are good to go. Not to mention the webfilter for home use.

[@martinmcnamee4362]

Awesome video! So glad you started with Fortigate as we use them extensively in our networks as well as MikroTik! You rock Network Berg!

[@zoljars2167]

Congratulations on the new series! Many thanks for your hard work and excellent presentation. I followed your lecture about mikrotik before, which I know well, and with you I learned even more! And now you made me happy with the Foritgate series! I'm overjoyed! Just keep going, please!

[@TheNetworkBerg]

Glad to hear that! I will definitely continue making this content, I love firewalling nearly as much as I love networking ^^

[@catlmarc9618]

Great Video. Glad I found your channel

[@christiaansteenkamp5617]

Great intro into FortiGate.

[@reanitkhmer3325]

Many thanks

[@TheNetworkBerg]

You are welcome

[@BarryVanWyk007]

I love Palo Alto Firewall.

[@vasjabatareikin6016]

What you think that we will build mixed labs and you will present. Like some nice cases of Fortinet / mikrotik VXLAN BGP layer 3 and layer 2 extensions, that will be across sites.

[@montiedj]

Good job. I'm currently implementing fortigate in my work. Lot of option to learn. The worst thing is that i must migrate all configuration from mikrotik to forti(fortigate has not option to import csv file with dhcp reservation so people who want do that must learn a cli command and create a script to generate config). Fortigate has not a white list mac address to bypass hotspot service(or has it?).

[@rosatechnocrat2206]

yeah .. there is a tool called Forti-Converter that can be used for configuration migration. But I guess that doesn't support microtik

[@60Giuseppe]

Hello Everyone, is it possible to allow all the Internet Traffic except few specific websites?

[@henriquealexandreh]

Are you going to create a Fortigate course as well?

[@TheNetworkBerg]

Sort of, the playlist will cover mostly everything you need to know to pass an NSE4, though I want to make it a more practical course that related to real world configurations and issues.

[@henriquealexandreh]

@@TheNetworkBerg Thanks for your answer. How many videos you have in mind?

[@TheNetworkBerg]

Quite a few really, if I am looking at my planned schedule there should be roughly 20 or so videos covering more specific features and how they work. But who knows maybe I will squeeze some content together to drop this count a bit lower, or I might even make more videos just due to how large the scope is when it comes to firewalling.

[@henriquealexandreh]

@@TheNetworkBerg sounds awesome! Thanks for doing this. Looking forward to catching up with all of them

[@trismagist]

@@TheNetworkBerg That would be great !

[@graboos]

On the Fortigate playlist, there are only three videos. Has the idea for this series failed?

[@TheNetworkBerg]

Good question! Not failed per say, more that I was finding it difficult to provide decent lab architectures with FortiGate trial licenses where features are either restricted or not working at all. I did have a nice bypass that worked for an hour or two, but making videos and having to reset labs every time just felt like a time sink. I did try and reach out to Fortinet on multiple occasions to try and source some form of a VM license for labbing and educational purposes. But no one ever responded to me or took me seriously. I was in essence looking for either a discount or sponsored licenses as paying for the licenses full price is just not financially viable for me or the channel (even now years later)

[@graboos]

Too bad. I'm browsing KZbin looking for tutorials just like yours, and I was very happy when I stumbled upon your Fortigate videos because you explain things very well and provide practical tips (like the one about flow tracing diagnostics in another video). Plus, your pronunciation is very clear, which is especially important for me since English isn't my native language. I understand the licensing issues, maybe if you expand your reach on KZbin, Fortinet would be interested in collaborating.

[@faizansirajuddin]

Hello , Hope you are fine and doing well. I have a question regarding limiting access for the users, specially working from home employees. My manager asked me to study about how can we limit user access so that remote employees cannot steal source code of an software even via copying to email id and sent to himself. He can able to edit and update it but it should be protected from any kind of theft . can you please tell me how can I achieve this. I googled it but unfortunately not find any solution.

[@rosatechnocrat2206]

your question is about limiting access to the source code of software. For such cases, you may need to use Data Leak prevention or other software. There is no option in Fortigate. For such cases, DLP or some other application might be used, but not possible on Fortigate.

[@ebosac8813]

Bro plz make a video on how to restrict users internet access to only one device example laptop or phone

[@rosatechnocrat2206]

You can use a Firewall Policy / IPV4 policy to restrict the access from a particular IP address.

[@bbahes]

Problem with FortiGate and similar vendors is licensing. No free license like with MikroTik for learning. Makes sense to watch Fortinet course only if you own hardware.

[@TheNetworkBerg]

Yeah that is true, I wish there was a type of community edition as well.

[@rosatechnocrat2206]

or you can use a VM with trial license for practise

[@TheNetworkBerg]

@@rosatechnocrat2206 sort of, the trial VMs do very basic SSL, you can't even log into the device on HTTPS and you can't really test things like SSLVPN, adding trial VMs to FortiManager are also not very easy, but yeah for a typical feel of how to work on a FortiGate and create interfaces the trial VMs are pretty good

[@Andrew_Thrift]

If you talk to your local Fortinet team they can provide you with 60 day fully featured trial licences.

[@bbahes]

@@Andrew_Thrift The question is, can they provide 5 licenses at once? Then, can they do it after 2 months again? Sometimes I have time to do labs, sometimes not. Fortinet is not flexible on this. For MikroTik I just download public image and use it. If I need bandwidth I register trial using free account.

[@rolosaenz]

So mikrotik sux and now the shi.... is Fortigate ?

[@is6031]

Fortigay

[@chrisslaunwhite9097]

lol, nice