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The Fortinet Certified Trainer (FCT) assessment is a trainer evaluation process in which each candidate has to prove their training delivery skills. The FCT assessment is a two-day assessment that evaluates the FCT candidate’s ability to maintain Fortinet’s quality standards in technical knowledge, skills and instructional abilities.

Who can apply?

The FCT assessment candidate should be a Fortinet employee or a candidate sponsored by an ATC who has submitted proof of reference, along with an online application form. An FCT candidate who wants to apply for an FCT assessment must meet the following knowledge and experience eligibility requirements:

  • Extensive technical knowledge and skills in network security and cybersecurity
  • Five years of relevant experience in network security and cybersecurity
  • Certification in the required NSE training courses
  • Five years of experience in training delivery in IT security
  • Demonstrable training facilitation and delivery skills

If you meet all of these requirements you can apply for the FCT assessment!

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FortiDDoS

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Course Description

In this course, you will learn how to form network baseline data, and how to recognize and mitigate individual and distributed denial of service attacks while preserving service and network performance.

Who Should Attend

Cybersecurity professionals responsible for the day-to-day administration, management, and troubleshooting of a FortiDDoS F-Series device should attend this course.

Prerequisites

You should have an understanding of the topics covered in the following courses, or have equivalent experience:

  • NSE 4 FortiGate Security
  • NSE 4 FortiGate Infrastructure
Agenda
  1. Introduction and Deployment
  2. Initial Configuration
  3. Monitoring and Reporting
  4. Global Settings
  5. Service Protection
Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Train your FortiDDoS to recognize your unique network patterns
  • Choose the right FortiDDoS model
  • Defend against both volumetric and mechanistic DDoS attacks
  • Deploy FortiDDoS to protect both network appliances and servers
  • Understand 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
  • Understand the main characteristics of protection policies
  • Characterize different types of attacks by using logs and statistics graphs
  • Troubleshoot incorrect threshold levels
System Requirements

If you take the online format of this class, you must use a computer that has the following:

  • A high-speed Internet connection
  • An up-to-date web browser
  • A PDF viewer
  • Speakers or headphones
  • One of the following:
    • HTML 5 support
    • An up-to-date Java Runtime Environment (JRE) with Java Plugin enabled in your web browser

You should use a wired Ethernet connection, not a Wi-Fi connection. Firewalls, including Windows Firewall or FortiClient, must allow connections to the online labs.

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Product Versions

  • FortiDDoS-F 6.3
  • The FortiDDoS-F Series 6.3 course is applicable only for F-series hardware and VMs.

Course Duration
  • Lecture time (estimated): 6 hours
  • Lab time (estimated): 4 hours
  • Total course duration (estimated): 10 hours / 2 days
Formats

  • Instructor-led (classroom and online)
  • Self-paced online
(ISC)2

  • CPE training hours: 6
  • CPE lab hours: 4
  • CISSP domains: Communication and Network Security

Part Number (SKU)
  • FT-FDD: Instructor-led course
  • FT-FDD-LAB: Lab access within self-paced course

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Certification

This course does not have a certification exam.

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