Category Archives: FortiGate

Fortigate FGCP vs FGSP for High Availability

Fortigate Clustering Protocol (FGCP) I have been working on Fortinet Fortigates for over two years now. Most customer that do…

By Manny Fernandez

March 6, 2019

Fortitoken with Active Directory on Fortigate

Yesterday I wrote a blogpost about two-factor authentication using Duo, Active Directory, Duo Proxy Auth and Fortigate. I mentioned that…

By Manny Fernandez

February 20, 2019

Duo Security 2FA with Fortigate Firewalls

Although Fortinet has a great 2FA solution (FortiToken) which is simple to use and does not require anything extra, there…

By Manny Fernandez

February 19, 2019

Gateway IP and interface conflict with Static Route 1

Fortigate 6.0.3 has a bug that will give you the "Gateway IP and interface conflict with Static Route 1” This…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2019

Using Tags on the Fortigate Firewall

Tags are something that I have adopted into my workflow on most applications. I use Tags in Evernote, OmniFocus, macOS,…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2019

Renaming HA Fortigate Firewall after it is in HA Cluster

If you are 'IT-OCD' like me, you hate to connect to a Fortigate and see that the devices have their…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2019

Site-to-Site VPN Between Fortigates using Certificates instead of PSK

Had a customer running Checkpoint that needed to create a Site-to-Site VPN using a dynamic IP on the remote (Fortigate)…

By Manny Fernandez

February 11, 2019

Using Certificate to Login into a Fortigate

* Sometimes you may want to use a certificate to authenticate to you Fortigate firewall. This is a simple process…

By Manny Fernandez

February 11, 2019

Configuring FortiExtender

For those of you that have not heard or seen FortiExtender, it is a 3G/4G LTE modem that can be…

By Manny Fernandez

February 1, 2019

Fortilink over TCP

If you are not familiar with FortiLink, you should get familiar with it. Fortilink allows you to manage FortiSwitches via…

By Manny Fernandez

January 28, 2019

Enhancing the security TO the Fortigate, not just THROUGH it.

The IPS policies on the Fortigate are defined and assigned to policies. This means that the packets match the packets…

By Manny Fernandez

January 21, 2019

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