“Automatic Update” vs. “Forced Update” In this article, we’d like to introduce the new Forced Upgrade feature and clarify how it differs from Automatic Upgrade to help avoid any potential confusion between the two.
Yesterday, Fortinet officially introduced its new Certification Roadmap. The most notable change is the retirement of the Fortinet Certified certification levels (FCA, FCF, FCP, FCSS, and FCX). Instead, Fortinet is bringing back the familiar NSE (Network Security Expert) certification levels—a change that many long-time Fortinet professionals will likely welcome. 🙂…
In November Fortinet has released two new PSIRT advisories (CVSS 7.1) that are impacting FortiClient v7.2.0-7.2.9 and v7.4.0-7.4.3. These issues have been fixed in FortiClient v7.2.10 and v7.4.4 For more information please refer to https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-112 and https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-125. Shortly before, Fortinet announced that there would be no updates for the free…
After upgrading the Fortigate to 7.2.12, 7.4.9 or 7.6.4 the SAML authentication (for e.g. IPsec or SSL VPN) is not working anymore. The authentication process takes a very long time and then results in a timeout. Reason for this is that Fortinet has started to verify the signature for SAML…
Last Updated: 20. June 2025 Fortinet has released FortiOS 7.6.3 on April 17th. There are a lot of resovled issues but again another feature was completely removed. After the SSLVPN (tunnel- and web-mode) has been completely removed on models with only 2GB RAM and the small G models, now SSLVPN…
Einleitung One-Arm-Installation bedürfen einem speziellen Augenmerk, insbesondere wenn es um den Redirect vom Traffic geht – also Traffic, der über das gleiche logische Interface rausgeschickt wird, wo er auch reingekommen ist. Auf der Fortigate wird der Redirect Traffic per default erlaubt, so dass der Traffic ohne weitere Prüfung durch die…
Palo Alto Networks is announcing a new certification program which consists of four different level for all three Palo Alto Networks Platforms: Network Security, Security Operations, Cloud Security. With this new program, Palo Alto Networks moves from away from more product-focused certifications towards role-based certifications: As you can see in…
Especially on Fortigates with little memory (e.g. FG60F, FG50G) it makes sense to configure the device in a memory-saving way. Ideally – of course – without reducing the memory by disabling certain features.
In the last days we have had several support cases that suspiciously all had the same error description: many web servers can no longer be reached with the Chrome or Edge browser. In our cases typically the Webfilter feature from one of our firewalls has been involved. Right now we…
Maybe you have already noticed (or maybe you have been informed by our Fortinet Firmware Update mailing list) that Fortinet has released of some new FortiOS patches on Feb. 7, 2024. To be more precise – all Fortinet minor and major versions that are running on Fortigate models that are…
