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New IPS and Application Control Signature Filters

New IPS and Application Control Signature Filters

Intrusion profile configuration now includes Regular, Extended and Industrial signature filters. Application Control profile configuration now includes Regular and Industrial signature filters.

IPS Signatures

Go to Policy & Objects > Object Configurations > Security Profiles > Intrusion Prevention. Create/edit an IPS profile and add Signatures/Filters.

  • Regular, Extended, and Industrial for corresponding database is show at the top of the dialog.
  • Version, DB, and Total number of signatures are shown at the bottom of the dialog.

Application Signatures

Go to Policy & Objects > Object Configurations > Security Profiles > Application Control. Create/edit an Application Control profile and add Signatures/Filters.

  • Regular, and Industrial for corresponding database is show at the top of the dialog.
  • Version, DB, and Total number of signatures are shown at the bottom of the dialog.

FortiGuard IPS packages status

In FortiGuard > Package Management > Receive Status, search for the NIDS object name. It shows current IPS Meta Data file versions on FortiManager which FortiManager uses for the above configuration page.

  • For 5.6 ADOM or older, find 05006000NIDS02400.
  • For 6.0 ADOM or later, find 06000000NIDS02400.

The following CLI can also shows the IPS version linked to device/ADOM:

# diagnose dvm device list

# diagnose dvm adom list

New IPS and Application Control Signature Filters

Intrusion profile configuration now includes Regular, Extended and Industrial signature filters. Application Control profile configuration now includes Regular and Industrial signature filters.

IPS Signatures

Go to Policy & Objects > Object Configurations > Security Profiles > Intrusion Prevention. Create/edit an IPS profile and add Signatures/Filters.

  • Regular, Extended, and Industrial for corresponding database is show at the top of the dialog.
  • Version, DB, and Total number of signatures are shown at the bottom of the dialog.

Application Signatures

Go to Policy & Objects > Object Configurations > Security Profiles > Application Control. Create/edit an Application Control profile and add Signatures/Filters.

  • Regular, and Industrial for corresponding database is show at the top of the dialog.
  • Version, DB, and Total number of signatures are shown at the bottom of the dialog.

FortiGuard IPS packages status

In FortiGuard > Package Management > Receive Status, search for the NIDS object name. It shows current IPS Meta Data file versions on FortiManager which FortiManager uses for the above configuration page.

  • For 5.6 ADOM or older, find 05006000NIDS02400.
  • For 6.0 ADOM or later, find 06000000NIDS02400.

The following CLI can also shows the IPS version linked to device/ADOM:

# diagnose dvm device list

# diagnose dvm adom list