Category: Fortinet Products
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FortiGate Certificate Inspection for LDAP/Active Directory: Why Secure LDAP Breaks
FortiGate LDAP authentication to Active Directory fails silently when the DC certificate is self-signed and the FGT CA store doesn’t include the issuing CA.
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FortiGate Firmware Upgrade: What Nobody Tells You About the Upgrade Path
Skipping intermediate versions in a FortiGate firmware upgrade path causes silent configuration corruption — the unit boots but behavior is undefined.
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Why Our FortiGate SSL VPN Kept Dropping After 4 Hours — And the Fix
Default SSL VPN idle timeout is 300 seconds — most engineers never check it until users start complaining.
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FortiToken Mobile Push Failures: Why MFA Stopped Working After an iOS Update
FortiToken Mobile push notifications depend on Apple APNs and Google FCM — a certificate expiry or firewall block breaks MFA silently for all users.
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FortiGate BGP Route Redistribution Gone Wrong: How We Leaked Internal Routes to the Internet
Redistributing connected routes into BGP without a route-map filter will advertise every subnet on the FortiGate — including management and internal networks.
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Why FortiGate Firewall Policies Have No Name – and How to Fix It
Unnamed FortiGate firewall rules are a silent risk in any network environment. Learn why policies lose their names, the operational impact, and step-by-step remediation using CLI and GUI.
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FortiGate Policy Bloat: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
Most FortiGate deployments accumulate hundreds of redundant rules over time. This post explains the root causes of policy bloat and gives concrete prevention strategies that scale.
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FortiGate Configuration File Analysis: What You Can Learn Without Logging In
FortiGate .conf files contain everything an auditor needs — policy tables, address objects, service groups — without requiring live device access. Learn how to parse and analyse them offline.
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FortiGate VDOM Policy Management: Best Practices for Multi-Tenant Environments
Virtual Domains (VDOMs) let one FortiGate serve multiple logical firewalls, but policy management complexity multiplies. Learn the best practices that keep multi-tenant FortiGate estates manageable.
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Automating FortiGate Security Policy Review: Tools and Techniques
Manual FortiGate policy reviews are slow and error-prone at scale. This post covers automation techniques — from FortiManager scripts to REST API pipelines — that make continuous policy review practical.
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Top 5 FortiGate Misconfigurations Found During Policy Audits
After auditing hundreds of FortiGate deployments, the same five misconfigurations appear repeatedly. This post explains each one, its risk, and the exact remediation steps.
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FortiGate vs Palo Alto Policy Management: Key Differences Explained
FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks NGFW take fundamentally different approaches to security policy management. This side-by-side comparison helps engineers migrating or evaluating both platforms.