FortiGuard
FortiGuard services can be purchased and registered to your FortiGate unit. The FortiGate must be connected to the Internet in order to automatically connect to the FortiGuard Distribution Network (FDN) to validate the license and download FDN updates.
The FortiGuard subscription update services include:
- Antivirus (AV)
- Intrusion Protection Service (IPS)
- Application Control
- Antispam
- Web Filtering
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
AV and IPS packages are signed by the Fortinet CA, and automatic updates will validate whether a package is signed.
To view FDN support contract information, go to System > FortiGuard. The License Information table shows the status of your FortiGate’s support contract.
- Configuring FortiGuard updates
- Configuring a proxy server for FortiGuard updates
- Manual updates
- Automatic updates
- Scheduled updates
- Sending malware statistics to FortiGuard
- Update server location
- Filtering
- Online security tools
- FortiGuard anycast and third-party SSL validation
- Using FortiManager as a local FortiGuard server
- Cloud service communication statistics
- IoT detection service
- FortiAP query to FortiGuard IoT service to determine device details
- FortiGate Cloud / FDN communication through an explicit proxy
- FDS-only ISDB package in firmware images
- Licensing in air-gap environments