With this video, you’re going to learn how to set up your FortiGate unit to receive two simultaneous redundant connections from two Internet Service Providers. Having redundant connections can protect you from outages or traffic overloads, and the FortiGate unit will automatically switch to the second connection if the first fails, and when the first connection is restored it will automatically take over again. If both connections are working properly, they will share the load.
CTVNews Derek Manky July 2012
CTV British Columbia sits down with Derek Manky, Sr. Security Strategist, from Fortinet FortiLabs Threat Research, and discuss Internet hackers and password security.
IPv4 Firewall Testing on the Fortinet FortiGate 5140B using BreakingPoint FireStorm
Fortinet announced that the Fortinet FortiGate-5140B handled 526 Gbps of blended application traffic and security attacks during recent massive-scale testing. These definitive real-world tests were created using the BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM, the industry’s only product capable of creating stateful application traffic at the massive-scale required to stress today’s high-performance firewalls.
High Performance IPv6 Firewall Testing of Fortinet FortiGate 5140B with the 5101C blades
Fortinet and BreakingPoint conducted IPv6 firewall performance testing on the FortiGate 5140B using the FortiGate 5101C blades. Fortinet achieved 536 Gbps of IPv6 firewall throughput.
Fortinet’s End-to End Security and the Power to Control
Patrice Perche, VP of International Sales & Supports, provides a high level view of the Fortinet end to end secuirty and the Power to Control.
Fortinet FortiWeb Overview
FortiWeb web application firewalls protect, balance, and accelerate your web applications, databases, and any information exchanged between them.
FortiGate Cookbook – Using the FortiClient VPN to set up a VPN between a user and a private network
In this example, user sgreen is part of the Wizard_Users usergroup. Once the VPN tunnel is up, sgreen’s FortiClient Connect will be assigned an IP address in the range 192.168.1.[90-99]
FortiGate Setup Tutorial Using FortiExplorer
The following video explains how to setup a FortiGate appliance using FortiExplorer.
Security Minute March 2012
In this month’s Security Minute, Fortinet’s Derek Manky talks about the resurgence of the Kelihos botnet, hacker cash payouts at CanSecWest, the Ke$ha Twitter hack and the increase in Tax Day scams.
Providing protected Internet access and access to head office servers for remote users with SSL VPN
This solution describes how to configure FortiGate SSL VPN split tunnelling using the FortiClient SSL VPN software, available from the Fortinet Support site. Using split tunneling, all communication from remote SSL VPN users to the head office internal network and to the Internet uses an SSL VPN tunnel between the user’s PC and the head office FortiGate unit. Connections to the Internet are routed back out the head office FortiGate unit to the Internet