Fortigate – Geek and I

Fortigate + CloudFlare Address Lists via Terraform

By mike January 21, 2022 January 21, 2022 0 Networking, Security Cloudflare, Fortigate, Terraform

Terraform allows for automated management of resources and CloudFlare has a list of their source IPs that can come in handy in your Fortigate firewall in use in access rules.

SSL Labs and Fortigate: Grade capped at B

By mike January 24, 2019 0 Security, Technology Fortigate

Are you sick of seeing your SSL scan capped at `B` using SSL Labs? This very simple solution should resolve it.

Sumo Logic + Fortigate + Monitoring Children (update)

By mike May 4, 2018 May 14, 2018 0 Networking, Technology Fortigate, Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic dashboard query to build a graph of usage by MAC address over time.

RANCID (v3) vs Fortigate – the patch!

By mike October 4, 2016 0 Networking, Security Fortigate

Fortigate has a rotating private key and it is caught on every RANCID run as a new change. This gets annoying because it is not a user change and makes the notifications quite noisy.

CenturyLink Cloud VPN with Fortigate firewall

By mike April 25, 2016 March 28, 2017 0 Networking, Security, Technology CenturyLink, Fortigate, Security

Basic steps with screenshots for setting up VPN between CenturyLink Cloud and Fortigate firewall.

AWS VPC VPN, dual tunnel with Fortigate firewall

By mike April 15, 2016 March 28, 2017 0 Networking, Security, Technology AWS, Fortigate, Security

How to run 2 VPN tunnels between Fortigate firewall and AWS VPC VPN using static routing or BGP.

Fortigate to Sumo Logic How-To

By mike October 1, 2015 October 1, 2015 0 Software, Technology Fortigate, Logging, Sumo Logic

I received a question via Twitter today on how to configure the Fortigate firewall to send data into Sumo Logic.

Sumo Logic + Fortigate + Web Classification (update!)

By mike September 1, 2015 September 1, 2015 0 Software, Technology Fortigate, Logging, Sumo Logic

Updated query replacing an empty category with UNRATED for a more useful display.

Sumo Logic + Fortigate + Web Classification

By mike August 26, 2015 0 Software, Technology Fortigate, Logging, Sumo Logic

Website classification can be used for content filtering. This post has Sumo Logic searches from Fortigate logs to look at utilization by category as well as an example of a scheduled search to create a daily report, perhaps of just the adult content categories.