During Accelerate 2023, Fortinet has introduced the new Fortinet NSE Certification Program which will come into effect on October 1st 2023. Let’s summarize what will change and what is important to know:
New Fortinet NSE Certification Program
FortiGate Registration via WebUI: Reseller field is empty
In the last two weeks we received more and more reports about the problem that the reseller list remains empty when registering a FortiGate via WebUI, even if the correct country (Switzerland in our case) is selected. The problem was also reported to us with the Country / Region field,…
New Fortinet Vulnerabilities (March 2023)
Most of you have already read about the latest release of Fortinet’s new PSIRT advisories. There are 15 new vulnerabilities for FortiOS and other products with severity level from low up to critical. We strongly recommend that you checkt the PSIRT advisories and update your Fortinet products to one of…
Swisscom Centro Business: Incoming HTTPS-Sessions and SSLVPN stop working
In the last two weeks we have received many support requests because of non-functioning SSL connections from our Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Watchguard customers. Incoming SSL connections on port tcp/443 suddenly stop working. These can be SSLVPNs, Global Protect connections, port forwardings (VIPs, Destination NAT) for internal web servers…
How to correctly power the FortiAP 431/433G-Series
We noticed some interesting facts about the new large FortiAP G-Series models that we would like to share with you: When we studied the datasheet and the quick start guide of these new access points, we were surprised to see a drastic increase in power consumption: The maximum power consumption…
How to upgrade a FortiClient EMS free-, trial- or evaluation-license
FortiClient EMS is a central endpoint management solution from Fortinet. There are three possible license types and it is not always possible to change the license state between different license types. This article will bring light into the dark of FortiClient EMS license upgrading. Free trial license A free trial…
New FortiGate Vulnerability – CVE-2022-42475
Today Fortinet has published a new critical vulnerability in their FortiGate products. A successful attack allows arbitrary code or commands to be executed. The problem exist in the SSLVPN module – and you might be vulnerable if you are using SSLVPN and not running the latest patch release of the…
FortiCloud: Check your email or token application for the security code
The single-sign-on accounts for Fortinet websites are used for sites such as support.fortinet.com and forticloud.com. There are a whole lot of other Fortinet sites that use the same login. All accounts are required to change their passwords on a regular basis. If you do not change your Fortinet account password,…
CheatSheet FortiOS v7.2
We are happy to present you the new cheat sheet for FortiOS version 7.2. Most commands have remained the same.A bigger change is that the Packet Sniffer and the Debug Flow are now also available in the WebUI under Network > Diagnostics. We wish you good luck with troubleshooting.
Remediation steps for FG-IR-22-377 / CVE-2022-40684
Fortinet has released information about PSIRT FG-IR-22-377, also known as CVE-2022-40684. Following we have a collection of remediation steps to take if your FortiGate has been breached. We have documented some information about this vulnerability in this blog article. We will update this post as soon as new evolvements are…
