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Administration Guide

Introduction
What's new
Key concepts
- Workflow
- Sequence of scans
- IPv6 support
- Solutions for specific web attacks
- HTTP/2 support
- HTTP sessions & security
- FortiWeb high availability (HA)
- Administrative domains (ADOMs)
- How to use the web UI
- Shutdown
How to set up your FortiWeb
- Appliance vs. VMware
- Registering your FortiWeb
- Planning the network topology
- Connecting to the web UI or CLI
- Updating the firmware
- Changing the “admin” account password
- Setting the system time & date
- Setting the operation mode
- Feature visibility
- Configuring High Availability (HA) basic settings
  - HA heartbeat & active node election
  - Synchronization
- Replicating the configuration without FortiWeb HA (external HA)
- Configuring the network settings
- Configuring DNS settings
- Configuring HA settings specifically for active-passive and standard active-active modes
- Configuring HA settings specifically for high volume active-active mode
- Defining your web servers & load balancers
  - Protected web servers vs. allowed/protected host names
  - Defining your protected/allowed HTTP “Host:” header names
  - Defining your web servers
  - Defining your proxies, clients, & X-headers
  - Defining your network services
  - Configuring virtual servers on your FortiWeb
  - Enabling or disabling traffic forwarding to your servers
- Configuring FortiWeb to receive traffic via WCCP
- Configuring basic policies
- Testing your installation
- Switching out of Offline Protection mode
Policies
- How operation mode affects server policy behavior
- Configuring the global object allow list
- Configuring a protection profile for inline topologies
- Generating a protection profile using scanner reports
- Configuring a protection profile for an out-of-band topology or asynchronous mode of operation
- Configuring client management
- Configuring a server policy
- Configuring traffic mirror
- ADFS Proxy
- Configuring FTP security
Secure connections (SSL/TLS)
- Offloading vs. inspection
- Supported cipher suites & protocol versions
- CA certificates
- How to offload or inspect HTTPS
- Forcing clients to use HTTPS
- HTTP Public Key Pinning
- How to apply PKI client authentication (personal certificates)
- Seamless PKI integration
- Revoking certificates
- How to export/back up certificates & private keys
- How to change FortiWeb's default certificate
- Configuring OCSP stapling
Users
- Authentication styles
- Offloading HTTP authentication & authorization
- Creating reCAPTCHA servers
- OAuth Authorization
Application delivery
- Rewriting & redirecting
- Compression
- Site Publishing (Single sign-on)
- Caching
  - What can be cached?
- Acceleration
Web protection
- Blocking known attacks
- Advanced protection
- Cookie security
- Input validation
- Protocol constraints
  - HTTP/HTTPS protocol constraints
  - WebSocket Protocol
- Access control
  - Restricting access to specific URLs
  - Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) protection
- Anti-defacement
Bot mitigation
- Configuring threshold based detection
- Configuring biometrics based detection
- Configuring bot deception
- Configuring known bots
- Configuring bot mitigation policy
- Exception Policy
Protection for APIs
- Configuring JSON protection
- Configuring XML protection
- OpenAPI Validation
- Configuring mobile API protection
- API gateway
DoS protection
- DoS prevention
- Preventing slow and low attacks
IP Protection
- GEO IP - Blocklisting & whitelisting countries & regions
- IP List - Blocklisting & whitelisting clients using a source IP or source IP range
- IP Reputation - Blocklisting source IPs with poor reputation
Tracking
Machine learning
- Enabling machine learning policy
- Configuring anomaly detection policy
  - Viewing domain data
  - Viewing anomaly detection log
- Configuring bot detection policy
  - Viewing bot detection model status
  - Viewing the bot detection violations
- Configuring API Protection Policy
  - Viewing API Protection domain data
- Configuring machine-learning templates
Compliance
- Authorization
- Preventing data leaks
- Vulnerability scans
Administrators
- Configuring access profiles
- Grouping remote authentication queries and certificates for administrators
- Changing an administrator’s password
- Certificate-based Web UI login
Advanced/optional system settings
- Changing the FortiWeb appliance’s host name
- Fail-to-wire for power loss/reboots
- Customizing error and authentication pages (replacement messages)
- Configuring the integrated firewall
  - Network address translation (NAT)
- Advanced settings
- Backup & restore
Dashboard
- FortiView
  - Topology
  - Security
  - Traffic
  - Sessions
Monitoring your system
- Logging
- Alert email
- SNMP traps & queries
- Reports
- Debug log
- Monitoring currently blocked IPs
- Monitoring currently tracked clients
- FortiGuard updates
- Vulnerability scans
Security Fabric
- External connectors
- Fabric Connector: Single Sign On with FortiGate
Fine-tuning & best practices
- Hardening security
- Improving performance
- Improving fault tolerance
- Reducing false positives
- Regular backups
- Downloading logs in RAM before shutdown or reboot
Troubleshooting
- Introduction
- Troubleshooting outline
- Diagnosing server-policy connectivity issues
- Diagnosing system issues
- Diagnose software function issues
- Diagnose hardware issues
- System tools & diagnose commands
Appendix A: Port numbers
Appendix B: Maximum configuration values
Appendix C: FortiWeb-VM licenses
Appendix D: Supported RFCs, W3C, & IEEE standards
Appendix E: Regular expressions
Appendix F: How to purchase and renew FortiGuard licenses

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