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Fortinet Public Cloud Security

This Fortinet Public Cloud Security course will teach you how to deploy FortiGate VMs in the public cloud using various methods. You will learn how to use third-party automation tools to deploy FortiGate VMs and secure your network. You will take a deep dive into AWS SD-WAN Connect deployment and learn how to utilize AWS Transit Gateway to secure east-west and north-south traffic. You will also learn how to effectively troubleshoot FortiGate deployments in Azure and how to use FortiCNP to simplify risk management for your AWS workloads.

Course Overview

Overall Proficiency Level
3 - Advanced
Course Prerequisites
  • General knowledge of IaaS vendors
  • Experience with FortiGate and Linux VMs
  • Completion of the FCSS - Cloud Security for AWS and FCSS - Cloud Security for Azure courses or a clear understanding of network components and how to deploy resources in Azure and AWS

AWS Prerequisites:

Labs: students must have own account with:

  • A valid payment method registered on the account*
  • Capacity for at least four elastic IPs and 15 vCPUs in a single region
  • Capacity to deploy FortiGate HA with 10 or more network interfaces
  • Permissions to create the following:
    • Minimum 6 VPCs and 10 EC2 instances
    • S3 bucket
    • CloudShell
    • Security groups
    • Internet and Transit gateways
    • Lambda functions
    • IAM users with AWS Marketplace Full Access, AmazonEC2FullAccess permissions

Azure Prerequisites:

Labs: students must have own account with:

  • Pay-as-you-go subscription with valid payment method*
  • Ability to deploy FortiGate from Azure Marketplace and Terraform
  • Capacity for at least 15 vCPUs in a single region
  • Capacity to deploy FortiGate HA with 10 or more network
  • interfaces

  • Permissions to create the following:
    • App registrations (service principal) and keys
    • Minimum 6 VNets
    • Minimum 7 VMs with 15 vCPUs
  • The ability to do the following:
    • Run Cloud Shell with storage setup
    • Read the Active Directory properties and use Azure functions
    • IAM user with contributor, owner, and user access administrator role permissions

*Estimated lab cost/student, following all instructions, is USD $10/cloud vendor/day. Free trial will not work for some exercises.

Training Purpose
Management Development
Skill Development
Specific Audience
All
Delivery Method
Classroom
Online, Instructor-Led
Course Locations

8890 McGaw Road
Suite 200
Columbia, MD 21045

625 W Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60661

5908 Headquarters Drive
Suite 400
Plano, TX 75024

201 N Franklin St
Floor 37
Tampa, FL 33602

40 E. Rio Salado Parkway
Suite 200
Tempe, AZ 85281

  • Classroom
  • Online, Instructor-Led

Learning Objectives

  • Deploy a FortiGate SD-WAN Connect scenario with AWS Transit Gateway
  • Deploy a FortiGate VM on AWS/Azure in single, HA modes
  • Use Terraform to deploy environments
  • Use Ansible to make FortiGate configuration changes
  • Troubleshoot Terraform and HA deployment issues
  • Use FortiCNP to simplify risk management

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