Inspection modes
FortiOS supports flow-based and proxy-based inspection in firewall policies. You can select the inspection mode when configuring a policy.
Flow-based inspection takes a snapshot of content packets and uses pattern matching to identify security threats in the content.
Proxy-based inspection reconstructs content that passes through the FortiGate and inspects the content for security threats.
Certain security profiles allows users to display flow-based or proxy-based feature sets.
This following topics provide information about inspection modes for various security profile features: