Fast Tracks ¹ are a series of Technical Hands-On² workshops focusing on the most essential Fortinet solutions.  Using detailed use-cases, participants will explore the enabling technologies which reinforce the benefits of Fortinet’s broad, integrated and automated approach to security.

Take advantage of this opportunity to receive hands-on experience while discovering new Fortinet technologies.

¹ Due to limited class sizes, all registered attendees must be in the room 5 minutes before the start of the session.   Any individuals not present when the session starts will have their seat forfeited and all remaining seats will be made available to individuals on the wait-list.

² Due to the hands-on nature of the Fast Tracks participants are required to bring their personal laptops to all Fast Track sessions.

Laptop Requirements:

·         WiFi network adapter

·         Installed browser (Chrome, FireFox, Safari supported)

·         Type A & B Power adapter capable (230V/50Hz)

As security architects consider how to provide comprehensive threat protection for their enterprises, including intrusion prevention, web filtering, anti-malware and application control, they face a major complexity hurdle managing these point products with no integration and lack of visibility. On top of that, Gartner estimates that by 2019, 80% of enterprise traffic will be encrypted and 50% of attacks targeting enterprise will be hidden in encrypted traffic. FortiGate reduces complexity by integrating various point products into NGFW features with automated action and enhanced visibility into applications, users and network. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall utilizes purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence security services from FortiGuard labs to deliver top-rated protection and high performance including encrypted cloud access.

Attend this technical training workshop and gain hands-on experience fortifying the enterprise network with Fortinet NGFW solution.

As organizations transition to a digital business model, their network topologies are significantly impacted. The adoption of cloud services, the virtualization of the traditional network, and an increasingly mobile workforce accessing applications in the cloud are accelerating advancements in wide area networking technologies. The traditional wide area network (WAN) is struggling to keep up because it relies on a static infrastructure of devices that simply can't accommodate shifting, and often temporary resource allocation and workloads.

Attend this technical training workshop to learn how software-defined networking (SDN) applies to software control of wide area networks in an enterprise environment. Gain hands-on experience through actual configuration of virtualized products supporting WAN aggregation, both directly configuring the FortiGates, as well as doing the configurations remotely through FortiManager.

With a dynamic attack surface due to the rise of IoT and cloud services, it's clear that no single technology will be able to stop every threat. To protect your enterprise against sophisticated threats, it is important to establish a comprehensive and cohesive security infrastructure that is broad enough to cover all attack vectors, powerful enough to run the latest security technologies, and automated to keep pace with fast-moving attacks.

Attend this hands-on technical training workshop to learn how to detect and analyze advanced threats with FortiSandbox.

Enterprise networking and security teams are struggling with evolving their WAN and branch office IT architecture to support digital transformation. A typical branch office consists of multiple point products creating both security and complexity challenges. IT teams are looking to consolidate these point products to increase agility and save money, while improving the security and visibility of network access at the branch office. Fortinet’s secure access architecture powered by FortiLink is uniquely suited to SD-Branch deployments with ethernet switch and wireless access point management built into the same platform that drives our Secure SD-WAN solution, the FortiGate and FortiOS.

Come learn how this common platform enables you to have all of the compelling features of Fortinet’s SD-WAN extended directly to branch network access through FortiSwitch, FortiAP and FortiLink, including global security policies enforced by an industry leading security platform in FortiGate.

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has made it necessary for organizations to improve their visibility into what is attached to their networks. They need to know every device and every user accessing their networks. IoT devices enable digital transformation initiatives and improve efficiency, flexibility, and optimization. However, they are inherently untrustworthy, with designs that prioritize low-cost over security. FortiNAC provides the network visibility to see everything connected to the network, as well as the ability to control those devices and users, including dynamic, automated responses.

Attend this technical training workshop to gain hands-on experience configuring FortiNAC to secure IoT devices within the Fortinet Security Fabric.

Email is a critical tool for businesses. But it’s also a preferred delivery method for ransomware, phishing, and compromise attacks. According to the 2018 Verizon report, 49% of (non-POS) malware was installed via malicious email. Gartner asserts that "Advanced threats (such as ransomware and business email compromise) are easily the signature-based and reputation-based prevention mechanisms that a secure email gateway (SEG) has traditionally used.

FortiMail replaces incumbent secure email gateways with a product tailored for advanced threat defense. FortiMail email security shields users, and ultimately data, from a wide range of cyber threats. These include: ever growing volumes of unwanted spam, socially-engineered phishing and business email compromise, accelerating variants of ransomware and other malware, increasingly targeted attacks from adversaries of all kinds, and more. At the same time, FortiMail can be used to protect sensitive data of all types, reducing the risk of inadvertent loss and/or non-compliance with regulations like HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, and more.

Attend this technical training workshop and gain hands-on experience protecting your organization against phishing, spam, malware and advanced targeted attacks via email.

The Fortinet Security Fabric delivers Broad, Integrated, and Automated capabilities to provide customers with end-to-end protection and operational efficiencies across their network.  Find out how the Fortinet Security Fabric just got better with FortiOS 6.4.

Technical Level: Introductory

The Security Controls Catalogue provides a practical framework for customers to build a security and compliance roadmap powered through the Security Fabric. The framework is aligned with industry best practices such as NIST Cyber Security Framework and CIS Top 20 cybersecurity controls, and will help customer’s to continuously maintain visibility and automated control over their network as the threat and risk landscape changes.

Technical Level: Introductory

As organizations consolidate multiple point products across Network Security, IoT, Info Security & Cloud we help reduce enterprise’s risk of breach or downtime with Fortinet’s Fabric Management Center (FMC). FMC simplifies operations by automating workflows across Operations teams. It comes with flexible deployment and pricing options for customers across segments – SMB, Mid-Market & Enterprises. Join us for this presentation to learn more about Fabric Management Center, covering: 
 
1.      Key Use Cases we see Customers across segments leverage
2.      FortiManager & FortiAnalyzer – What’s New in 6.4
3.      Customer Story around how FMC has helped in their deployment 

Technical Level: Introductory

Learn from your peers how they took control of their network edge and achieved simplification, cost reduction and cloud ready branches with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. They share key takeaways from real world deployment to deliver best user experience, network visibility and security promise without compromising on performance with FortiGate as WAN edge appliances. Having addressed critical network and security challenges with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, they focus on ROI with cost reduction of  infrastructure by 3x, WAN cost by 30% and IT tickets by 90% across branch offices and datacenters. In addition to zero touch deployment, centralized configuration and provisioning, they highlight use cases on rapid network and security issue resolutions achieved with real-time and historical analytics on a single pane of glass visibility.

Technical Level: Introductory

Branch locations are tough to manage remotely while keeping them secure.  The good news is that customers deploying Secure SD-WAN now have the opportunity to extend that security and management into the network of branch locations that lack IT staff.  Learn how the Fortinet Secure SD-Branch solution improves the security of the branch network while also making it easier to deploy, configure, and manage. Guest presenters will share real-world experiences with the solution. 

Technical Level: Introductory

With the proliferation of devices on the network and the movement of employees, vendors, and guests across networks, controlling who and what connects to your network is both more challenging and more important for maintaining security.  Come learn how you can keep your network safe and secure from IoT devices, stolen passwords, and unpatched laptops.  Know who and what is connecting and allow them policy-based, least-access privileges. Guest presenters will share real-world experiences with the solution. 

Technical Level: Introductory

Are you consolidating network management and security services to Fortinet’s Cloud-delivered Services? Learn how a Single Pane, Holistic Views and Deep, Scaled Functionality from FortiCloud and its associated portals can simplify and enhance the operation and management of your Fortinet Product and Service Eco-System.

Technical Level: Introductory

Managed SD-WAN service is the fastest growing area for network services, growing at 60% CAGR. In this session, you will learn the SD-WAN market opportunity and the key customer benefits it delivers and get deeper insights into how to pick the right SD-WAN solution for managed services. You will learn how Fortinet Secure SD-WAN provides a platform to deliver differentiated value-add services including security, Analytics, Secure-Access, and more delivering faster business agility, Hybrid WAN transport services augmenting MPLS and carrier-based Cloud-Interconnect for customers.

Technical Level: Introductory

Driven by the need to scale to massive amount of customer demands, organizations are building hyperscale application delivery architectures with components that can’t scale. Gartner estimates that by 2025, enterprise data centers will have five times more computational capacity per physical area (square feet) than today. In this session, you will learn, how enterprises and cloud providers can build security-driven hyper scale architectures with Fortinet’s SPU powered network firewalls to enable protected and optimized E-commerce services and delivery of elephant flows over secure backbones.

Technical Level: Intermediate 

Psst! For past 20+ years, the networks have been built with security bolted on top of it. And this has neither resulted in better networking nor effective security. Expanding digital attack surface has resulted in exponential growth of network edges. Security needs to occur at the speed of business at every edge without trading performance for protection. Fortinet Security-Driven Networking, a key facet of 3rd Generation of Cybersecurity allows organizations to architect networks with security front-and-center to manage all security risks and simplify operations. The session will cover common security challenges in the areas of IPS, TLS and Segmentation and how Security-Driven Networking can be used to overcome them. 

Technical Level: Intermediate

Join this session to learn how to leverage FortiClient Fabric Agent in your SD-Branch strategy and to gain visibility, dynamic access control for the remote, roaming and branch users. Plus, learn how Fabric Agent can activate your internal segmentation strategy down to the endpoints. 

Technical Level: Intermediate

In this session we will review key security technologies and capabilities Fortinet customers are using to secure their private cloud datacenters. We will review key use cases such as segmentation and security automation as well as key integrations with VMWare NSX-T and the various VMware public cloud offerings. We will also review the latest in the FortiGate-VM Product line. you will learn how to apply consistent security across clouds and private datacenters.

Technical Level: Intermediate

In this session we will review the main use cases and technical capabilities supporting customers connectivity to the cloud as they extend their datacenter resources. we will highlight key capabilities related to SD-WAN Cloud Onramp, Cloud Security at Scale, and visibility and control aspects of Cloud Platform Security Management with FortiCWP.

Technical Level: Intermediate

In this session we will address some of the more Innovative and emerging Cloud security topics such as Container and Kubernetes Security solutions, Security Automation using Terraform and the FortiOS API's, ultimately, we will describe methods to integrate Network Security Operations into the DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline.

Technical Level: Intermediate

Modern applications require more than basic Web Application Firewall (WAF) controls.  The increasing use of Web applications and APIs to deliver mission-critical business capabilities creates an ever-evolving attack surface that must be defended.   In this session, we will look at how FortiWeb's advanced threat detection capabilities, enhanced with Machine Learning that automatically adapts to the real-world behavior of your application and your users, protect the mission-critical Web applications that your organization depends on.  

Technical Level: Intermediate

As Gartner notes in their 2019 Market Guide for Email Security, "Security and risk management (SRM) leaders must revisit their organizations’ email security architecture in the light of current email threats."  In this session we will look at the primary customer challenges and best practice solutions including advanced threats like ransomware, phishing, business email compromise and more; the move to cloud email systems like Microsoft Office 365 and Google G-suite; data privacy in compliance with industry regulations such as PCI, HIPAA, GDPR and similar. 

Technical Level: Intermediate

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning systems are coming up on their century mark since first described by Alan Turing. These terms have now become the de facto marketing buzzwords and are often confused with big data analytics or are simply not understood by security professionals. In this session you will learn about the history and workings of this technology and see the results of over 10 years of investment in it by Fortinet. Join us to find out what it takes to build leading edge AL\ML infrastructure and how Fortinet has integrated a variety of these powerful capabilities into a wide range of our products with one goal in mind – customer safety.

Technical Level: Intermediate

Did you know that many of the cutting-edge AI-based technologies developed at Fortinet are making their way out of our research labs and into your organizations?  Join us as we discuss the range of advanced security technologies - from mature (Sandbox and EDR) to emerging (UEBA, Deception and Isolation)- designed to combat advanced cyber threats.  Receive expert guidance on when, where and why to consider each so that you can add the right automated, custom threat intelligence to your Security Fabric.  

Technical Level: Intermediate

With so many threats and risks, as well as security technologies and information, it's no wonder that the time to compromise is much shorter than time to detection.  Add in the scarcity of skilled cybersecurity professionals and it's clear that expert systems need to fill the gap.  Join us as we discuss how to overlay monitoring, analytics and automation across your Fortinet and/or multi-vendor Security Fabric to bring insight out of information and speed mean time to detection and response.

Technical Level: Intermediate 

Digital attacks typically take only minutes if not seconds to compromise an asset.  On the flip side, it takes days, if not months for organizations to detect and respond.  Join this session to learn how automated EDR (enSilo) and advanced behavioral analytics can help your security team win the race against time with automated protection,  real time detection, containment and incident response, all without business interruption.  

Technical Level: Intermediate