FortiDDoS Administrator - FG17

This course will help:

Gain foundational knowledge and skills in administering and operating FortiDDoS to protect network infrastructure from DDoS attacks.
Learn how to establish network traffic baselines to identify anomalies and potential threats
Learn how to detect, analyze, and mitigate the impact of individual and distributed DDoS attacks while maintaining service availability and network performance
Learn how to deploy, configure, and manage FortiDDoS solutions in a network environment
Develop an in-depth understanding of the core concepts of FortiDDoS administration and operation
Prepare for the Fortinet NSE 6 certification exam

Pre-requisites:

This course assumes a basic understanding of DDoS attacks and common solutions for preventing them.

Course syllabus:

Introduction and Deployment
Initial Configuration
Monitoring and Reporting
Global Settings
Service Protection

You will learn:

Train your FortiDDoS to recognize your unique network patterns
Choose the correct FortiDDoS model
Defend against both volumetric and mechanistic DDoS attacks
Deploy FortiDDoS to protect both network appliances and servers
Identify when to use detection and prevention modes
Implement bypass or a high availability FortiDDoS cluster for maximum service uptime
Detect connections from proxies
Describe how the blocking periods and penalty factors intelligently determine which packets are dropped after an attack is detected
Configure access control lists and blocklists
Mitigate anomalies and SYN floods
Describe the main characteristics of protection policies
Characterize different types of attacks by using logs and statistics graphs
Troubleshoot incorrect threshold levels