As organizations grow and users increasingly rely on the internet to access cloud services, collaboration tools, and external resources, web traffic has become both a business enabler and a major attack surface. With most of this traffic now encrypted, deep inspection and high-performance SSL/TLS decryption are essential for detecting threats and enforcing security policies.

Modern networks must go beyond basic URL filtering. They require scalable, identity-aware web protection that can enforce access policies, efficiently handle encrypted traffic, and maintain a seamless user experience.

Fortinet addresses these needs with two deployment options. FortiGate provides essential explicit proxy capabilities as part of its integrated firewall platform, ideal for applying web access control within existing infrastructure.

For more advanced use cases, FortiProxy offers a dedicated secure web gateway designed for high-performance proxy operations. It offloads proxy-related tasks from FortiGate and adds advanced capabilities such as optimized SSL/TLS inspection, AI-powered content analysis, advanced DLP with OCR, native browser isolation, and WAN caching and optimization, all without impacting core firewall performance.

Participants who attend this workshop will learn how to:

• Set up Explicit Web Proxy on FortiGate and configure the endpoint browser
• Set up Explicit Web Proxy on FortiProxy and configure the endpoint browser
• View locally stored logs on FortiProxy and centralized logs on FortiAnalyzer
• Enforce web access authentication using RADIUS integration of FortiProxy with FortiAuthenticator
• Detect and block visual threats using AI-powered content analysis