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…
According to this title you are expecting some click-bait content, right? Nope. We’re still the Boll Engineering Tech team here… The configuration inputs below are problems we face frequently in our daily support life. Also some of the points mentioned below are frequently asked questions that pop up during our…
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.
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…
When you setup a new FortiGate VM, sometimes the licensing process is not working as expected. To simplify the process of licensing a FortiGate VM for you, we have created this guide. Let’s first have a look into the licensing process on the FortiGate VM, before we discuss the Troubleshooting….
Sometimes it happens, that FortiOS is not updating it’s antivirus signatures anymore. The monitoring software, a monitoring script or a very attentive administrator is then reporting this problem to the FortiGate admin to fix it. This guide will lead you through the steps to troubleshoot this.
Last update: 28. April 2026 Have a look at our guides for FortiOS 7.4, FortiOS 7.6 and FortiOS 8.0. 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…
We have recently seen an accumulation of problems with IPSec VPN tunnels. The problem was recognized by Swisscom and fixed with a new firmware. Further information can be found in the release notes (on this page). The firmware version from which the problem was fixed is: 9.52.12 B16++ (June 2023).
Last Update: 25.07.2025 Fortinet has introduced a new transceiver module designed for use with the FortiGate. A DSL modem that can be used in a free SFP port of the FortiGate. It is possible to replace an existing DSL bridge with this transceiver. The modem supports PPPoE as well as…
Auf dem FortiGate können für Features wie Benachrichtigungen zur Security Fabric, Token Provisionierung, Gastaccounts oder Alerts Informationen per E-Mail versendet werden. Standardmässig werden diese E-Mails über den Fortinet eigenen Mailserver für Benachrichtigungen versendet. Es besteht jedoch auch die Möglichkeit, einen eigenen Mailserver und sogar einen selbst bestimmten Absender zu verwenden….
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