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. 🙂…
Starting October 15, Fortinet is introducing a significant update to its certification program — reintroducing the well-known NSE level names, while retiring some exams and launching new ones. In this blog post, you’ll find everything you need to know about the updated NSE path, requirements for FCP and FCSS certifications,…
Last Update 11.08.2025: It was not so long ago that Fortinet replaced the old NSE levels with new certification levels. We already wrote an article about this last year in this blog post. Nevertheless, let’s take a look at how you can recertify our new Fortinet certifications: Basically, recertification is…
Last Update 11.08.2025: Update 17.07.2025: Please note, that this blog post is outdated per 15th of October 2025, since Fortinet is re-designing the certification landscape again. You can find the latest information under https://www.fortinet.com/nse-training-update . During Accelerate 2023, Fortinet has introduced the new Fortinet NSE Certification Program which will come…
