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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 the allow list at server policy level
- 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 an HTTP server policy
- Configuring traffic mirror
- ADFS Proxy
- Configuring FTP security
Secure connections (SSL/TLS)
- Offloading vs. inspection
- Supported cipher suites & protocol versions
  - Supported cipher suites - for connections between FortiWeb and the clients
  - Supported cipher suites - for connection between FortiWeb and back-end servers
- 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
- Scripting
Web protection
- Blocking known attacks
- Advanced protection
- Cookie security
- Input validation
- Protocol constraints
  - HTTP/HTTPS protocol constraints
  - WebSocket Protocol
- Access control
- ML Based Anomaly Detection
  - Viewing domain data
  - Viewing anomaly detection log
- Anti-defacement
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Configuring FortiClient EMS Connector for ZTNA
- Verifying EMS CA certificate, ZTNA tag, and FortiClient endpoint synchronized from FortiClient EMS
- Configuring a ZTNA Profile
- Referencing ZTNA profile in a server policy
- ZTNA troubleshooting and debugging
Bot mitigation
- Configuring threshold based detection
- Configuring biometrics based detection
- Configuring bot deception
- Configuring known bots
- Configuring bot mitigation policy
- Configuring ML Based Bot Detection policy
  - Viewing bot detection model status
  - Viewing the bot detection violations
- Exception Policy
API Protection
- Configuring JSON protection
- Configuring XML protection
- OpenAPI Validation
- Configuring mobile API protection
- API gateway
- Configuring ML Based API Protection policy
  - Viewing API Protection domain data
  - Editing and viewing machine learning models for API paths
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
- Creating IP groups
Tracking
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 machine-learning URL replacer policy
- Configuring the integrated firewall
  - Network address translation (NAT)
- Advanced settings
- Backup & restore
Dashboard
- Status dashboard
- Monitors
Log&Report
- Logging
- Alert email
- SNMP traps & queries
- Reports
- Debug log
- FortiGuard updates
- Analyzing attack logs in FortiWeb Cloud Threat Analytics
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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7.2.6

Advanced protection

FortiWeb provides the following advanced protections:

Advanced protection

FortiWeb provides the following advanced protections:

Secure Networking

Hybrid Mesh Firewall

NOC Management

LAN

WAN

Unified SASE

Single Vendor SASE

Cloud Network Security

Secure Endpoint Connectivity

Web Application / API Protection

Security Operations

Security Operations Automation

Identity

Early Detection & Prevention

Secure Networking

Hybrid Mesh Firewall

NOC Management

LAN

WAN

Communication & Surveillance

Unified SASE

Single Vendor SASE

Secure Endpoint Connectivity

Cloud Network Security

Cloud-Native Security

Web Application / API Protection

Security Operations

Security Operations Automation

Endpoint

Data Protection

Identity

Email

Early Detection & Prevention

Expert Services

Edge Firewall

Orchestration & management

SD Branch

Application Delivery

Single Vendor SASE

Secure Endpoint Connectivity

Secure Private Access

Thin Edge

Identity

Application Gateway

Enterprise Asset Management

Endpoint Agent

Agentless Security Posture

Identity

Wireless

Switching

Identity

Privilege Acccess Management

Next Generation Firewall

Orchestration & management

Expert Services

All

All

Account Management

SAAS Management

SAAS Application Security

Managed Services

Platform as a service (PAAS)

Other SAAS Services

4D Pillars

Cloud

Popular Solutions

Administration Guide

Advanced protection

Advanced protection

Advanced protection

Advanced protection