NSE Certification 

Products: FortiGate

In this course, you will learn how to diagnose and troubleshoot the most common networking and security problems in a FortiGate network security solution. In interactive break-and-fix labs, you will learn to use troubleshooting tools, diagnostics, and debug commands. The content of this 2-day course is part of the 3-day FCSS Network Security 7.6 Support Engineer course. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

You must have an understanding of the topics covered in the FCP - FortiGate Administrator course, or have equivalent experience. It is also recommended that you have an understanding of the topics covered in the FCSS - Enterprise Firewall Administrator course. 

NSE Certification 

Products: FortiSIEM, FortiSOAR 

In this course, you will learn how to design, deploy, and manage a Fortinet SOC solution using FortiSIEM and FortiSOAR. You will learn how to analyze and respond to security incidents according to industry best practices for incident handling. You will also learn how to use FortiAI to assist in log analysis, incident investigation, threat response, and automation playbook creation. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

You must have an understanding of the topics covered in the FCP FortiSIEM Analyst and FCP FortiSOAR Administrator courses, or have equivalent experience. 

NSE Certification 

Products: FortiGate, FortiWeb

In this course, you will learn how to deploy Fortinet solutions in the public cloud using various methods. You will learn how to use third-party automation tools to deploy and secure your cloud resources. The content of this 2-day course is part of the 3-day FCSS Public Cloud Security 7.6 Architect course.
Products: FortiGate, FortiWeb

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

Experience with FortiGate, FortiWeb, and Linux VMs

Completion of the FCP – AWS Cloud Security Administrator and FCP – Azure Cloud Security Administrator courses or a clear understanding of network components and how to deploy resources in Azure and AWS

Please note: The following pre-requisites are required 

AWS Prerequisites

Labs: students must have own account with:

• A valid payment method registered on the account*           
• Capacity for min. 4 elastic IPs and 15 vCPUs in single region
• Capacity to deploy FortiGate EC2 instances with a combined total of 10 or more network interfaces
• Capacity to deploy FortiWeb EC2 instances
• Permissions to create the following:
  • Minimum of 6 VPCs and 10 EC2 instances
  • S3 bucket
  • CloudShell
  • Security groups
  • Internet and transit gateways
  • Lambda functions
  • IAM users with AWSMarketplaceFullAccess and
  • AmazonEC2FullAccess permissions

Azure Prerequisites

Labs: students must have own account with:

• Pay-as-you-go subscription with a valid payment method*
• Ability to deploy FortiGate from Azure Marketplace, using Bicep or Terraform
• Capacity for at least 16 vCPUs in a single region
• Capacity to deploy FortiGate VMs with a combined total of 10 or more network interfaces
• Permissions to create the following:
  • App registrations (service principal) and keys
  • Minimum of 6 VNets
  • Minimum of 7 VMs with a combined total of 15 vCPUs
  • The ability to do the following:
  • Run Cloud Shell with storage setup
  • Read the AD properties and use Azure functions
  • Create an IAM user with contributor, owner, and user access administrator role permissions

* Estimated lab cost/student, following all instructions, is USD $15/cloud vendor/day. Free trial will not work for some exercises
 

NSE Certification 

Products: FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer 

In this course, you will learn how to implement and centrally manage an enterprise security infrastructure composed of multiple FortiGate devices. The content of this 2-day course is part of the 3-day FCSS Enterprise Firewall 7.6 Administrator course. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

You must have an understanding of the topics covered in FCP - FortiGate Administrator (or have equivalent experience). 

It is also recommended that you have an understanding of the topics covered in the following courses, or have equivalent experience: 

FCP - FortiManager Administrator 

FCP - FortiAnalyzer Administrator 

NSE Certification 

Products: FortiSASE, FortiGate 

In this course, you will learn how to use FortiSASE features, including policy types and security profiles. You will explore FortiSASE deployment, user authentication, use cases, and monitoring. You will also learn how to protect your web traffic and SaaS applications using content inspection, such as antivirus, web filtering, application control, and logging. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

You must have an understanding of the topics covered in the following courses, or have equivalent experience: 

FCP - FortiGate Administrator 

FCP - FortiClient EMS Administrator 

NSE Certification 

Products: FortiGate, FortiManager 

In this course, you will learn about common SD-WAN deployment scenarios using the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution. You will explore different situations, from a single enterprise site to multiple data center environments, that will help you to enhance and troubleshoot SD-WAN deployments. The content of this 2-day course is part of the 4-day FCSS SD-WAN 7.4 Architect course. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

Advanced knowledge of networking, and extensive hands-on experience working with FortiGate and FortiManager. It is recommended that you have an understanding of the topics covered in the following courses, or have equivalent experience: 

FCP - FortiGate Administrator 

FCP - FortiManager Administrator 

NSE Certification 

Products: FortiClient, FortiGate 

In this course, you will learn how to use the FortiClient EMS features, provision FortiClient endpoints, integrate the FortiClient EMS Security Fabric, and deploy and configure the zero-trust network access (ZTNA) agent and endpoint security features. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

You must have a basic understanding of endpoint protection solutions.

NSE Certification 

Products: FortiAnalyzer, FortiGate, FortiMail, FortiManager, FortiWeb (Web Application Firewall)

In this course, you will be challenged to configure a variety of Fortinet products based on a set of objectives. Fortinet products in the lab include FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiWeb, FortiMail, FortiADC, FortiAuthenticator, and FortiSandbox.

During the sessions, an FCX Cybersecurity certified instructor is available for questions and to support you while you complete tasks.

Agenda

• Networking
• Operations
• VPN
• Policies
• Authentication
• Management
• Advanced Technologies 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

Have passed the FCX written exam, or have it scheduled.               

Advanced Training 

Products:

• Cloud Security Posture Management (Agentless) - CSPM 
• Cloud Infrastructure and Entitlement Management - CIEM 
• Cloud Workload Protection Platform (Agent Based) - CWP 
• Policy as Code Enforcement - PaC 
• Kubernetes Security Posture Management - KSPM 
• Web Application and API Protection - WAAP 
• Secure Application Lifecycle - SAST/DAST/SCA 
• Infrastructure as Code - IaC 
• Cloud Detection and Response - CDR 
• Cloud Firewall 

This course introduces core concepts of the FortiCNAPP solution, focusing on Risk and Threat Detection.

Participants will learn how FortiCNAPP helps manage organizational risks by actively monitoring and providing historical tracking of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, user activity, and entitlements across assets in both data centers and cloud environments.

Building on the foundation of risk management, the course explores how  FortiCNAPP proactively monitors and detects threats by analyzing host processes, connections, and logins, as well as monitoring cloud activity such as events, API calls, and logins.

The course concludes with an interactive Capture the Flag competition, offering participants a hands-on experience with the product while reinforcing the key concepts covered.

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

Complete the Getting started with FortiCNAPP Self-Paced course on Training Institute Portal  

Basic hands-on experience with cloud concepts (AWS, GCP and Azure)

Advanced Training 

Products:

• Cloud Security Posture Management (Agentless) - CSPM 
• Cloud Infrastructure and Entitlement Management - CIEM 
• Cloud Workload Protection Platform (Agent Based) - CWP 
• Policy as Code Enforcement - PaC 
• Kubernetes Security Posture Management - KSPM 
• Web Application and API Protection - WAAP 
• Secure Application Lifecycle - SAST/DAST/SCA 
• Infrastructure as Code - IaC 
• Cloud Detection and Response - CDR 
• Cloud Firewall 

In this course, you will learn basic concepts of our FortiCNAPP and FortiSOAR solutions. You will also explore the Fortinet Security Fabric, focusing on integrations between various Fortinet products and solutions.

The learning experience is reinforced through a practical, hands-on lab, where participants will integrate FortiCNAPP insights with FortiSOAR playbooks, enhancing their ability to take action effectively.

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions)

Complete the Getting started with FortiCNAPP Self-Paced course on Training Institute Portal  

Hands-on experience with cloud concepts (AWS, GCP and Azure)

Hands-on experience with FortiGate and FortiSOAR

Advanced Training 

Products:

• FortiGate VM 
• FortiManager VM 
• FortiADC VM 
• FortiAnalyzer VM 
• FortiSOAR VM 
• FortiFlex 
• FortiCloud 

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of using FortiFlex to make licensing and requisitions more efficient to save both time and money. In interactive labs, you will explore deployment strategies, which include the entitlement options, billing options, configuring entitlement licenses, commission/decommission/scaling, automation, connectors, and more that will help you to become an expert in this licensing strategy. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

Basic hands-on administration experience with the following products (including command line interface where applicable): 

- FortiGate 

- FortiManager 

- FortiAnalyzer 

- FortiADC 

Basic hands-on experience with FortiSOAR: 

- Connector administration 

- Playbook design and development 

Basic hands-on experience with Application Programming Interfaces (API) 

Basic end-user experience with Linux (GUI and CLI) and Windows 

Basic programming and logic knowledge 

Suggested knowledge (basic level): 

- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Visual Studio Code 

- Hands-on experience with Postman 

- Hands-on experience with Terraform 

- Hands-on experience with FortiCloud portals (IAM and Asset Management) 

- Hands-on experience with virtualization platforms (VMware ESXi, KVM, and Docker) 

Advanced Training 

Products:

• FortiGate VM 
• FortiManager VM 
• FortiAnalyzer VM 
• FortiSOAR VM 
• FortiFlex 
• FortiCloud 

During this hands-on focused workshop, students will explore the capabilities of FortiFlex API and integrations for license management automation, low-touch provisioning, and deployment of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

Complete the FortiFlex Foundations Self-Paced course on Training Institute 

Hands-on experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiSOAR 

Basic end-user experience with Linux (GUI and CLI) 

Basic programming and logic skills 

Basic hands-on experience with Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Postman, Terraform, FortiCloud portals, and virtualization platforms (VMware ESXi and KVM/libvirt) 

Advanced Training 

Products:

Products will vary based on specific alert and might include but not be limited to: 

• FortiGate 
• FortiWeb 
• FortiADC 
• FortiDeceptor 
• FortiAnalyzer 
• FortiSIEM 
• FortiSOAR 

During this hands-on focused workshop, students will work with various Fortinet solutions to implement security threat mitigations based on select Outbreak Alerts published by FortiGuard Labs. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

Working Fortinet Training Institute account (for lab access) 

Basic hands-on experience with Kali Linux (GUI and CLI) 

Basic administration experience with various Fortinet solutions such as FortiGate, FortiWeb, FortiADC, FortiDeceptor, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, and FortiSOAR 

Advanced Training 

Products:

• FortiGate VM 
• FortiManager VM 

During this hands-on workshop, students will dive into Fortinet’s latest ADVPN 2.0 and SD-WAN technologies, exploring how they enhance secure, high-performance connectivity for distributed branches. Attendees will learn to configure ADVPN 2.0 for dynamic branch-to-branch communication and leverage SD-WAN for intelligent traffic management across diverse WAN links environments. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

Hands-on experience with FortiGate and FortiManager 

Advanced Training 

Products:

• FortiGate VM 
• FortiAnalyzer VM 
• FortiAI 

During this hands-on workshop, students will explore how the FortiOS Automation and FortiAnalyzer SOC features can be used together to create actionable security in the Security Fabric. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

Hands-on experience with FortiGate and FortiAnalyzer 

Advanced Training 

Products:

• FortiGate VM 
• FortiManager VM 
• FortiAnalyzer VM 

Join us on a journey through the enchanting realm of Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP). Learn how to automate network device deployment and configuration, making network setup a breeze with this spellbinding approach. Pre-Requisites (Recommended) NSE 7/FCSS 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

Hands-on experience with FortiGate and FortiManager 

Advanced Training 

Products:

• FortiGate VM 
• FortiManager VM 
• FortiAnalyzer VM 
• FortiSOAR VM 
• FortiSIEM VM 
• FortiAI 

During this hands-on focused workshop, students will explore the capabilities of FortiAI in the available products to demonstrate how it can save time, reduce complexity, respond to threats rapidly and make better security decisions. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

Hands-on experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM and FortiSOAR 

OpenAI ChatGPT API key with tokens (minimal expense expected) 

Advanced Training 

Products:

• FortiGate VM 
• FortiManager VM 
• FortiAnalyzer VM 
• FortiSOAR VM 

During this hands-on focused workshop, students will explore how FortiSOAR can automate processes and responses, how it can orchestrate actions with other Fortinet products using the Security Fabric, and how to do more with less. 

Pre-Requisites 

Laptop (required, second screen strongly suggested to view lab instructions) 

Hands-on experience with FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiSOAR