As a FortiGate support provider, we occasionally identify concerning trends in support requests that we believe are crucial to share with the community. Lately, we have seen a significant increase in 2GB memory FortiGate models hitting their performance ceilings. While these legacy platforms have proven themselves over the years –…
Last update: 30. July 2026 A critical software defect (Bug ID: 1286219) has been identified in Fortinet’s FortiSwitch operating system that causes the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon to freeze and consume excessive CPU resources on affected devices. The issue manifests after approximately 250 days of continuous uptime, potentially leading…
“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. 🙂…
This article is being updated regularly with the latest information. Visit us again for the latest news!Last Update: 26.06.2026 The headlines have been relentless over the past few days: A massive dataset containing valid admin credentials for an estimated 75’000 internet-facing Fortinet FortiGate firewalls worldwide is currently circulating under the…
Last updated: 15.06.2026 In the past few days, multiple of our resellers have reported issues where DNS resolution using the default Fortinet FortiGuard DNS servers (96.45.45.45 & 96.45.46.46) is not functioning as expected with DNS over TLS (DoT) on TCP/853.
Recently, we have seen an increasing number of support cases where resellers are unable to register their newly purchased FortiGate through the GUI during the initial login, even though the device has already been registered in the FortiCloud portal.
Last update: 28. April 2026 Have a look at our guides for FortiOS 7.2, FortiOS 7.4 and FortiOS 7.6. In our daily support work we often see FortiGates in use on which the basic settings like time zone, host name and so on have never been set correctly. Therefore we…
Single-sign-on accounts are used for Fortinet websites such as support.fortinet.com and forticloud.com. Many other Fortinet sites use the same login.
If you’re trying to set up an IPsec VPN connection on Windows 11 using FortiClient with an ARM64 processor, you might experience some difficulties. You enter your credentials, click ‘Connect’, and then… nothing. The client gets stuck on ‘Connecting’ indefinitely.
