FortiWeb Administrator

Course Description

In this course, you will learn about FortiWeb deployment, configuration, and management. You will learn how to set up server objects, define security policies, and implement HA. This course covers protection against advanced threats using data validation, client-side security, and machine learning. You will also explore API security, bot mitigation, and application delivery features such as URL rewriting, single sign-on, caching, and acceleration. Additional topics include DoS prevention, logging, FortiAI integration, compliance standards (PCI DSS, OWASP), and basic troubleshooting.

Product Versions

FortiWeb 8.0

Certification

This course is intended to help you prepare for the Fortinet NSE 5 – FortiWeb Administrator exam. This exam is part of the FCP Cloud Security certification track.

Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define web application firewall and describe its role in the network
• Perform basic configuration and initial deployment
• Configure FortiWeb for deployment in a load balanced network environment
• Implement SSL/TLS encryption, including inspection and offloading
• Configure and customize FortiWeb signatures
• Configure FortiWeb to protect against DoS
• Configure API protection and bot mitigation
• Implement FortiWeb machine learning capabilities
• Configure user authentication and access control features
• Configure FortiWeb to ensure Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance of your web applications
• Configure FortiWeb to perform HTTP content based routing, rewriting, and redirection
• Perform basic troubleshooting of FortiWeb