My IT notes
Fortigate is a security device developed by Fortinet. It includes features such as a firewall, VPN, antivirus, web filtering, and other security capabilities. Fortigate devices are designed to meet the security needs of enterprise-level and large businesses. They can be used to secure the boundary of corporate networks, filter and manage web traffic, manage VPN connections and perform other security operations.
What is Google AMP? Google AMP is an open-source technology utilized to create web pages that load almost instantly on mobile devices. Issue on FortiGate It has been observed that the web filter rules applied on FortiGate do not take effect on sites utilizing Google AMP technology on mobile devices. Resolution Steps: To address this … Read more
In this note, users may be experiencing FortiClient VPN connection issues at the following percentages. This note provides the following solutions and tips to address the issue. Percentage and possible problem: Possible problems and percentages: If there is no percentage and no errors occur You can get information about the cause of the issue by … Read more
Enabling SNMP on Fortinet This article discusses SNMP activation on Fortinet. SNMP is also enabled on the Network –> Interfaces menu on fortinet. In the second stage, SNMP Agent is activated in the System –> SNMP menu. A record is created to set the requirements based on the type of SNMP v1/v2c you will use. … Read more
Fortigate also create a valid firewall policy to apply its IPS (What is intrusion Prevention System ?) filter, from Wan to Clinet or Wan, and in rules such as Server, the Security Profiles section also processs with defult settings. Since defult settings have over 7000 (constantly updated) IPS signatures, it would be a better decision … Read more
Fortinet users were affected globally due to a problem with a root certification authority’s (ISRG Root X1) certificate chain, and users encountered the problem as follows. The following steps can be applied as a workaround to this problem. Because this solution will create a security vulnerability, the system update that … Read more
Fortigate – Adjustments made on the Microtic side during the final stage of IPSEC VPN configuration between Mikrotik consist of NAT and IPSEC sections. Nat creation first Ip -> FIREWALL -> Nat tab creates a new rule and determines the source and destination address blocks with the srcnat option. The IPSEC phase completes in 3 steps; In Phase 2, the IP -> IPSEC ->Peer tab enters the WAN ip address … Read more
This section will also talk about creating rules in the IPV4 Policy section under the Policy & Objects menu in Fortigate and creating a destination route under Static Route under the Network menu. In the next part -4 the settings to be made on the Mikrotik side will be discussed.
I shared the steps we’d follow in my previous section-1 note. The Section-2 note mentions vpn tunnel settings on the Fortigate side. First of all, under the VPN menu, in the IPsec Tunnels section, we create Tunnel with costom option using wizard. After tunnele gave a name 1- We write the ip address of the Mikrotik Outer leg to the IP address section where we will make … Read more
My notes on IPSEC VPN configuration between Fortigate and Mikrotik devices. First of all, when we look at the adjustment to be made on the Fortigate side; Tunnel creation in the IPsec Tunnels section under the VPN menu. Creating rules in the IPV4 Policy section under the Policy & Objects menu. Creating a destination route under static route in the Network menu. When we look at the … Read more
During the last phase of IPSEC VPN configuration between Fortigate and Sophos, the adjustments made on Sophos side consist of the adjustments to be made in the IPSEC section under the Site-to-Site VPN menu. In the 1st step creating the Remote Gateway connection under Site to site VPN -> ipsec->. At this stage, we give … Read more