Awesome Fortinet resources

Contents

• Help
• News, Alerts, Updates
• Blogs
• Video
• Automation, Productivity Tips and Tools
• Training
• Demo access

Help

Places to get help.

• https://support.fortinet.com Obvious one, if you have support contract for your equipment, the TAC is always available.

• https://community.fortinet.com - Community Forums, many Fortinet TAC folks frequent them and if questions are not being answered moderators (Anthony, Stephen, and Jean-Philippe) take upon themselves to route the question to appropriate people. This is not an official support channel though - everything is done on volunteer basis.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/fortinet/ Reddit, many Fortinet employees hang around there, as well as very knowledgeable folks in general.

• https://discord.com/servers/r-fortinet-523281289512615946 Discord server of the Reddit community.

• https://community.fortinet.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/ct-p/knowledgebase Knowledgebase of example configurations, created and maintained by Fortinet staff. It has very powerfull filtering/search capabilities, and is the 1st place to look for examples.

• https://docs.fortinet.com/4d-resources Collection of design documents, to be read before deploying/integrating Fortinet products.

• https://docs.fortinet.com/ Gateway to all official docs: Handbooks, Release Notes etc.

• https://support.fortinet.com/ticket/BugList.aspx Official Bug Tracker, available only to Fortinet Parners, good to check especially with new FortiOS versions if issue you are experiencing is a bug.

News, Alerts, Updates

How to stay up to date

• https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt If nothing else, at least bookmark this page and check it frequently - it lists all Fortinet products vulnerabilities disclosures. You may filter by product name, severity, FortiOS version and more. Even better - subscribe to its RSS feed, see next

• https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/rss/ir.xml RSS Feed of Fortinet products vulnerabilities.

• https://www.fortiguard.com/rss-feeds List of all Fortinet-provided feeds, if you incline to. I, personally, am watching only PSIRT feed in real time, the rest are nice to read, may be once a week.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/fortinet/ Fortinet subreddit, after new vulnerability/new FortiOS version have been announced, this is the place to read comments/personal experiences of others on the topic, of course all are opinionated as suits reddit.

• https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Recommended-Release-for-FortiOS/ta-p/227178 Currently recommended FortiOS versions per Fortigate model. If you have doubts what version to install among many - look here for the most stable one.

Blogs

• https://www.ultraviolet.network/blog Matt Sherif’s blog. Matt is a System Engineer at Fortinet and writes on Fortinet topics of intermediate-advanced level. He is also one of the moderators of the r/fortinet sub-Reddit.

• https://infosecmonkey.com/ blog by Manny Fernandez - System Engineer at Fortinet from US. The blog covers technical topics ranging from beginner up to advanced level.

• https://socpuppet.blogspot.com/ Ken Felix blog on many topics, including Fortinet-related. Ken is also a long-time contributor on the community.fortinet.com forums.

• https://blog.rdorman.net/tag/fortigate/ Ryan Dorman’s blog, with few posts Fortigate-related.

• https://travelingpacket.com/category/forti-products/ Justin Cottrell blog on Fortigate, FortiAuthenticator, Fortiswitch, FortiNAC and more.

• https://andrewtravis.com/ Andrew Travis, System Engineer at Fortinet, blog. It covers wide range of technologies beyond Fortigate - FortiNAX, FortiNDR, FortiFlex and more.

• https://www.historiantech.com/ Jonathan Torian blog on many things, including Fortigate, FortiAP, FortiSwitches and other.

• https://fortixpert.blogspot.com/ The only non-English blog here because it is that good, if you no habla Espanol - use Google translate, it is worth it.

• https://yurisk.info Yuri Slobodyanyuk blog on many things Fortinet-related.

Video

• https://video.fortinet.com/ Video walkthroughs, What’s New videos and more in the official Fortinet Video Library.

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLbbcH8MnXJ4jBj02ofBr8e8mgNU3-Gt_ Fortinet official Youtube channel, this is specifically Demo Playlist with practical configurations walkthroughs.

• https://www.youtube.com/@mattsherif9141/videos Matt Sherif who is a System Engineer at Fortinet, NSE 8 certified, and a moderator of Fortinet sub-reddit. He talks about more advanced stuff.

• https://www.youtube.com/c/DevinAdams Devin Adams - professional instructor of many years, taught Fortinet courses at an official training center, so not only knows the stuff but also presents it clearly.

• https://www.youtube.com/@FortinetGuru Michael Pruett aka Fortinet Guru, has an independent, many times critical, view of Fortinet products.

• https://www.youtube.com/@FortiTip/videos Ofer Shmueli has quite a lot of videos targeted at the beginners, all of them being practical and straight to the point.

• https://www.youtube.com/@FortiBytes Chris Eddisford’s channel who works at Fortinet, one of the newest on the block.

Automation, Productivity Tips and Tools

Note	Except official Fortinet resources, be extra careful and verify any script or tool before using in production.

• https://github.com/fortinet Official Fortinet repository, contains Terraform, AWS, Azure, and GCP deployment templates with examples.

• https://github.com/fortinet-solutions-cse Official Fortinet repo, contains Postman collections, REST API library/examples, Kubernetes and Ansible examples.

• https://fndn.fortinet.net/ Fortinet Developer Network, contains all automation documentation (APIs) for all the products. Unfortunately, access is either paid for (circa 2k USD/year) or free if you can find 2 Fortinet employees to vouch for you.

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/fortinet/index.html Ansible collections for Fortigate and FortiManager.

• https://github.com/FortiPower/PowerFGT PowerShell module to manage Fortinet (FortiGate) Firewall, enables you to manage Fortigate via REST API from Powershell.

• https://github.com/vladimirs-git/fortigate-api Python library that wraps some (not all) REST API calls for Fortigate.

• https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter Prometheus exporter for Fortigate firewalls to monitor your Fortigates.

• https://github.com/mbdraks/fortinet-zabbix Zabbix Templates for Fortinet devices

• https://github.com/fwsec/fgt-webui-tools Danny Jung’s (author of Check Point well-known ccc script) FortiGate WebUI Tools - collection of JavaScript bookmarklets, that you put in your browser and they modify inline what you see in Web GUI of Fortigate.

• https://github.com/diegobernardelli/fgDeepConfCompare Python script that compares 2 Fortigate configurations for differences.

• https://github.com/AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Fortinet.FortiGate Powershell scripts collection to present you detailed report of all things configured in the Fortigate.

• https://github.com/yuriskinfo/Fortinet-tools Yuri Slobodyanyuk’s (me) repo of Fortigate Automation Stitches and Fortianalyzer Incident Handlers collection.

Training

Few reputable sources of learning (there are tons of other, unverified trainings that didn’t get here, sorry)

• https://training.fortinet.com/ Official training self-paced courses from Fortinet. They are tailored to Fortinet exams FCP, FCX etc. but also are good for self-learning. Starting 2020 they are free to everyone.

• https://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training/fortinet CBT Nuggets, currently (2024) they have courses on Fortigate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, Fortiswitch, and FortiAuthenticator. They are good for 1st time users/beginners.

Demo access

Not sure if Fortinet folks like me sharing this (probably not :)) but anyway - demo access to the real Fortinet equipment, read-only. Unless specified otherwise - user/pass for all demos is demo/demo

• https://support.fortinet.com/Download/VMImages.aspx You can always download free VM images of the latest Fortigate version, this will include permanent evaluation license with limits. I wrote a post on using this license https://yurisk.info/2022/08/08/Fortigate-free-VM-Evaluation-License-is-now-permanent-not-15-days/

• https://www.fortinet.com/demo-center/ If presented below user/pass combos do not work, you can get the current ones at this page.

• https://fortigate.fortidemo.com/ Fortigate

• https://fortimail.fortidemo.com/admin/ FortiMail as Gateway

• https://fortimail-srv.fortidemo.com/admin/Admin.html FortiMail as Server

• https://fortiweb.fortidemo.com/ Fortiweb

• https://fortiadc.fortidemo.com/ FortiADC

• https://fortiauthenticator.fortidemo.com/ FortiAuthenticator (user/pass: demo/demo1234$)

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