Category: Fortinet

President Obama’s Cyber State of the Union

During his State of the Union address On February 12, 2013, President Obama announced an Executive Order that pertained to Cyber Security and information sharing.  He stated the need for better protection against hackers, including foreign countries that have tried in the past to collect corporate and personal information.  All Things D published the executive order in its entirety.  Many have questioned whether this will have little, beneficial or detrimental effects on the network security …

FortiOS Cookbook – Application Control (5.0)

In this video, you’re going to learn how to use Application Control to monitor and control applications’ access to your network. Application Control is a UTM security system that monitors and restricts applications over your network, using the FortiGuard database of applications, which categorizes apps according to popularity, networking technology, app function, and risk. You can create a list of flagged apps or select by category, and monitor or block the actions of those applications using your existing firewall policies.