Did you know, that on the FortiAP FAP-C24JE, the VLAN ID’s 898 and 899 are reserved for system use? Or that the FortiAP models FAP-S221E, FAP-S223E, FAP-221E, FAP-222E, FAP-223E and FAP-224E can not work with VLAN ID 97 and 98? I’m sure you already guessed it: These ID’s are reserved…
There seems to be a vulnerarbility in some FortiMail versions, that allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to access the system by requesting a password change. Please refer to the FortiGuard PSIRT article. The problem here is not only the unauthorized access to the system, but also the change of the…
Since June 1st you may notice that some websites (https) are not working anymore when Fortigate or the Palo Alto Networks Firewall is doing decryption or certificate inspection. Typically you are getting one of the following error messages:
Last Update: 21. July 2025 Configuring SSLVPN with FortiGate and FortiClient is pretty easy. Nevertheless problems may occur while establishing or using the SSLVPN connection.
With FortiOS 6.2 a few new CLI commands have been added to the Security Fabric or Switch integration. That’s why we created a new version of the Cheat Sheet and published it here.
Due to several known issues, we did not recommend the use of FortiOS 6.2 in productive environments for the first couple of months. As per FortiOS 6.2.5, we noticed that most of the issues have been resolved. Please have a look into our FortiOS upgrade guide for the upgrade procedure.
Recently we have had a few support cases where a customer was unable to log in to the firewall via WebUI after the firmware update. But SSH access worked fine. It turned out that during the update process the server certificate used for the WebUI is lost. Config with v6.0.4…
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…
Last week Fortinet has released a critical PSIRT-Advisory “Improper check for certificate revocation vulnerability” Unfortunately the article does not give exact information regarding the background or the solution and we couldn’t find further information about the issue, either. Maybe you have more information?
Letzte Aktualisierung: 19. Februar 2026 Die Fortinet WiFi Produkte erfreuen sich schon länger zunehmender Beliebtheit. Dies nicht zuletzt, weil die FortiAP und Controller (FortiGate und FortiAP Cloud) je länger je angewandtere Technologien bieten und daher unterdessen praktisch alle vorstellbaren Einsatzszenarien abdecken. Da mit dem Featureset zugleich auch die Komplexität der…
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