Preface

This section covers the following topics:

• Overview

• Documentation conventions

• Related documentation

• Obtaining more information

• Technical support

Overview

FortiPolicy is the first containerized security platform that implements and automates security orchestration with full-flow inspection and segmented and microsegmented policy enforcement while auto-scaling to accommodate infrastructure changes and multi-terabit traffic flows.

This manual describes how FortiPolicy facilitates application security using the Fortinet Security Fabric.

This manual is prepared for data center infrastructure administrators, network virtualization administrators, information technology (IT) managers, network security experts, data center security administrators, and cybersecurity analysts.

This manual is organized as follows:

• Introduction describes security threats in a Security Fabric, followed by the FortiPolicy technology solutions and detailed software component overviews.

• Getting started explains how to initially install the FortiPolicy software to get started with continuous Security Fabric monitoring.

• Setting up your workspace describes how to set up your applications, configure resource groups, specify segmentation and microsegmentation, and view events and logs.

• Customizing policies describes how to create access control list (ACL) rules and policies, allowlists, blocklists, and custom URL categories.

• Insights into FortiPolicy covers how to view FortiPolicy workloads, detections, assets, and operations.

• FortiPolicy configuration describes how to configure the Security Fabric, create data planes, set up servers and certificates, improve your system health, perform system maintenance, and obtain reports.

Documentation conventions

This manual uses the following conventions for typographically representing terms and procedures.

Convention	Meaning	Example
italics	Denotes the name of GUI elements.	Enter a unique name in the Name field.
Courier font	Coding examples and text to be entered at a command prompt or Web UI field.	Enter the following path: z:\vsphere-remote\datacenter
Click	Click the left mouse button.	Click Deploy to save your configuration and deploy the virtual chassis.
Double-click	Double-click the left mouse button.	Double-click the tagged WORKLOAD icon to display its IP address.
Right-click	Click the right mouse button.	Right-click the icon to display related details.

Related documentation

The following FortiPolicy documents supplement this manual:

• FortiPolicy Release Notes describe the latest release of the FortiPolicy software including caveats, open issues, and new features.

• FortiPolicy Getting Started Guide describes how to install and initially configure the FortiPolicy software in VMware environments. FortiPolicy becomes self-orchestrating immediately following initial configuration and virtual chassis deployment.

• FortiPolicy Automated Policy Generation Guide describes how to secure your environment by allowing FortiPolicy to automate discovery, analysis, and organization of all connections and workloads into application groups for you, with proposed security policy recommendations for connections between those groups, including custom policies.

• FortiPolicy CLI Reference describes the commands that make up the command-line interface (CLI) for FortiPolicy.

Obtaining more information

To obtain more information about FortiPolicy, refer to the following sources:

• Fortinet website—General information about the company and products

• Fortinet Support Community—Technical tips, Fortinet Forum, and Knowledge Base

• Fortinet Document Library—Administration guides, reference manuals, and release information

Technical support

For technical support, contact Fortinet as follows:

• Email support@fortinet.com

• Call:

  + 1 408 898 3205 (Worldwide)

  +1 877 345 3834 (USA & Canada)

• Visit the Fortinet Customer Support Portal (login required) at:

  http://www.fortinet.com/support/