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

1. Introduction and Deployment
2. Initial Configuration
3. Monitoring and Reporting
4. Global Settings
5. Service Protection

Security professionals involved in the day-to-day administration, management, and troubleshooting of FortiDDoS-F Series devices should attend this course.

You should have a basic understanding of DDoS attacks and common DDoS mitigation solutions.