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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.

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

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FortiSIEM

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Course Description

In this course, you will learn about FortiSIEM initial configurations, architecture, and the discovery of devices on the network. You will also learn how to collect performance information and aggregate it with syslog data to enrich the overall view of the health of your environment, how to use the configuration database to greatly facilitate compliance audits, and how to integrate FortiSIEM into your network awareness infrastructure.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who is responsible for the day-to-day management of FortiSIEM should attend this course.

Prerequisites

You must 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
  2. SIEM and PAM Concepts
  3. Discovery and FortiSIEM Agents
  4. FortiSIEM Analytics
  5. CMDB Lookups and Filters
  6. Group By and Data Aggregation
  7. Rules and MITRE ATT&CK
  8. Incidents and Notification Policies
  9. Reports and Dashboards
  10. Maintaining and Tuning
  11. Troubleshooting
Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Identify business drivers for using SIEM tools
  • Describe SIEM and PAM concepts
  • Describe key features of FortiSIEM
  • Understand how collectors, workers, and supervisors work together
  • Configure notifications
  • Create new users and custom roles
  • Describe and enable devices for discovery
  • Understand when to use agents
  • Perform real-time, historic structured searches
  • Group and aggregate search results
  • Examine performance metrics
  • Create custom incident rules
  • Edit existing, or create new, reports
  • Configure and customize the dashboards
  • Export CMDB information
  • Identify Windows agent components
  • Describe the purpose of Windows agents
  • Understand how the Windows agent manager works in various deployment models
  • Identify reports that relate to Windows agents
  • Understand the FortiSIEM Linux file monitoring agent
  • Understand agent registration
  • Monitor agent communications after deployment
  • Troubleshoot FortiSIEM issues
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 on your web browser

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

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Product Versions

  • FortiSIEM 6.3

Course Duration
  • Lecture time (estimated): 11 hours
  • Lab time (estimated): 9 hours
  • Total course duration (estimated): 20 hours / 3 days
Formats
  • Instructor-led classroom
  • Instructor-led online
  • Self-paced online
(ISC)2

  • CPE training hours: 11
  • CPE lab hours: 9
  • CISSP domains: Security Operations

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

This course prepares you for the NSE 5 FortiSIEM certification exam.

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