Tag Archives: Fortigate

Installing FortiClient on Ubuntu Linux for SSL VPN

I ran Windows as my main Desktop OS for many years.  When XP came out, I decided to move to…

By Manny Fernandez

August 11, 2019

Managing Guest Users in Fortigate Firewalls

Sometime, a company may want to create guest users for wireless or wired connections.  Additionally, companies may want to have administrators with…

By Manny Fernandez

July 25, 2019

Fortitoken Push Notification without FortiAuthenticator

One of the great features of the Fortigate Firewall platform is its versatility.  Aside from having an Ethernet Switch and…

By Manny Fernandez

July 15, 2019

Web Content Quota on Fortigate

Sometime, you may want to block the amount of a particular web content by either time or bandwidth used.  Here…

By Manny Fernandez

July 15, 2019

Fortigate Script for Adding Countries

Working with Fortigates, you may want to have all the countries predefined in the address list so that you can…

By Manny Fernandez

June 30, 2019

Forticlient Review

A colleague of mine, put together a great video review of Forticlient.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNehiBzd9pA  

By Manny Fernandez

June 21, 2019

Fortigate DHCP and Microsoft Dynamic DNS

Remote branches that utilize Fortigate's DHCP do not update Microsoft DNS servers automagically.  Fortinet does not have a syncing feature…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2019

Administering the Fortigate Firewall with LDAP Credentials

I am a big fan of having a centralized directory of users.  This makes it easy when that serial, crazy…

By Manny Fernandez

May 21, 2019

UPDATED – Certificate Pinning you SSL VPN with Microsoft CA and Fortigate Forticlient Using ‘user’ certificates

Customer wanted to ONLY allow devices that are trusted devices (owned by the customer) to connect using the ‘Full Access”…

By Manny Fernandez

May 15, 2019

Disabling Weak Ciphers on Fortigate Firewalls

A customer of mine sent me an email after having a vulnerability assessment done against his environment.  He got back…

By Manny Fernandez

April 14, 2019

Configuring LDAP Authentication for Remote Access VPN

The Fortigate platform allows for multiple authentication options for VPNs.  In the past, I used a lot of Cisco ASA…

By Manny Fernandez

April 9, 2019

Central NAT vs Policy NAT

In the past, Fortigate used what was known as 'Policy NAT' where the outbound NAT was defined in the policy.…

By Manny Fernandez

April 5, 2019

FortiView Capabilities

A few years ago, I worked for a reseller of networking and security.  I created their managed security services practice.…

By Manny Fernandez

March 18, 2019

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