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18. Dezember 201918. Dezember 2019 | Artikel von der

FortiClient VPN 6.2

Mit dem Release von FortiClient 6.2 wurde der bisherige Full Featured FortiClient lizenzpflichtig und setzt einen FortiClient EMS Server voraus. Im Gegenzug hat Fortinet einen separaten VPN-only Client veröffentlicht. Fortinet beschreibt den FortiClient VPN folgendermassen:

For FortiGate administrators, a free version of FortiClient VPN is available which supports basic IPsec and SSL VPN and does not require registration with EMS. This version does not include central management, technical support, or some advanced features.

Basic IPsec and SSL VPN bedeutet in diesem Zusammenhang, dass folgende Features nicht enthalten sind:

IKEv2 support
VPN auto-connect/always-up
on-net/off-net
host check features
Central management

Ebenfalls gibt es für die Version 6.2 kein FortiClient Configuration Tool . Um benutzerdefinierte Installationspakete zu erstellen, wird zwingend ein FortiClient EMS Server benötigt.

Der FortiClient VPN ist unter https://www.forticlient.com/downloads erhältlich. Weitere Informationen dazu gibt es im KB Limitation and features on Forticlient.

26. Juli 20198. August 2019 | Artikel von sy

What’s new with FortiOS 6.2: FortiGuard Requests

FortiOS v6.2 has been released in March this year and we are still gaining experience with this version. In this article we would like to draw you attention to the protocol which is used for FortiGuard service communication. Up to v6.0 udp has been used, with 6.2 the default protocol has changed to https.

8. Juli 20198. August 2019 | Artikel von mp

WatchGuard Fireware 12.5

Watchguard is going to release Fireware version 12.5 in the next few days / weeks. From the public beta phase some new features are already known, which I would like to introduce here:

Update: Fireware 12.5 has been released.
Please check the “ What’s New in Fireware v12.5 “ presentation for detailed information.

Reverse Proxy for the Access Portal

In the Access Portal configuration, you can now configure reverse proxy actions so remote users can connect to internal web applications and Microsoft Exchange services with an external URL. With reverse proxy actions, you can give remote teams access to internal resources without the need for a VPN. Multi-factor authentication is supported as well.

13. Juni 201930. September 2019 | Artikel von sy

Migrate Fortigate Configurations with FortiConverter

Fortinet has published a very nice and helpful tool for converting firewall configs from other vendors into a Fortigate configuration file. Also an old Fortigate config file can be used as the source file.

So if you are going to replace an old Fortigate model with a new one and you want use the old config file (instead of configuring the new Fortigate from the scratch) you can use the FortiConverter as an alternative to the procedure we have described in one of our former blog post „How to transfer a FortiGate configuration file to a new FortiGate unit of a different model“.