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Administration Guide

Introduction
New Features
- WAF features
- Web Servers
- Authentication
- System settings
- Log, FortiView, and Debug
- Security Fabric: Automation
- FortiWeb Hyper-V HA Cluster with Unicast Heartbeat
- Ingress Controller enhancements
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
  - 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
Application delivery
- Rewriting & redirecting
- Compression
- Site Publishing (Single sign-on)
- Caching
  - What can be cached?
- Acceleration
- Scripting
- Waiting room
  - Customizing waiting room display page
Web protection
- Blocking known attacks
- Advanced protection
- Cookie security
- Input validation
- Protocol constraints
- Access control
- ML Based Anomaly Detection
  - Viewing domain data
  - Viewing anomaly detection log
- Anti-defacement
- Data Loss Prevention
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
- Configuring Advanced Bot Protection policy
- Exception Policy
API Protection
- Configuring JSON protection
- Configuring XML protection
- Configuring GraphQL protection
  - Creating GraphQL protection rules
  - Creating GraphQL protection policy
- 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
- Exception Policy
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
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
- Fabric Connectors
  - FortiGSLB
  - Single Sign On (SSO)
    - FortiGate SSO
    - Single Sign On with Azure
- External connectors
- Automation
Ingress Controller
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
Appendix G: Supported image versions for EOS models

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