FortiDDoS Administrator (NSE 6)
FT-FDDOSADM
FortiDDoS Administrator (NSE 6)

Price:
Duration:
USD 1,800 excl. VAT
2 Days
Who Should Attend
Security professionals involved in the day-to-day administration, management, and
and troubleshooting of
FortiDDoS-F Series devices should attend this course.
Course Content
In this course, you will learn how to establish network baseline data and identify, analyze, and mitigate
both individual and distributed DDoS attacks while maintaining service availability and network
performance. This course covers
the fundamental administration and operational concepts of
FortiDDoS, providing a solid understanding of how to deploy, configure, and manage FortiDDoS
solutions in your network environment.
Prerequisites
You should have a basic understanding of DDoS attacks
and common DDoS mitigation solutions.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
• Train your FortiDDoS to recognize your unique network patterns
• Choose the correct FortiDDoS model
• Defend against both volumetric and mechanistic DDoS attacks
• Deploy FortiDDoS to protect both network appliances and servers
• Identify when to use detection and prevention modes
• Implement bypass or a high availability FortiDDoS cluster for maximum service uptime
• Detect connections from proxies
• Describe how the blocking periods and penalty factors intelligently determine which packets
are dropped after an attack is detected
• Configure access control lists and blocklists
• Mitigate anomalies and SYN floods
• Describe the main characteristics of protection policies
• Characterize different types of attacks by using logs and statistics graphs
• Troubleshoot incorrect threshold levels
Course Outline
1. Introduction and Deployment
2. Initial Configuration
3. Monitoring and Reporting
4. Global Settings
5. Service Protection
