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<!DOCTYPE FL_Course SYSTEM "https://www.flane.de/dtd/fl_course095.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://portal.flane.ch/css/xml-course.xsl"?><course productid="37307" language="en" source="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-course/fortinet-ddos-adm" lastchanged="2026-08-07T02:17:45+02:00" parent="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-courses"><title>FortiDDoS Administrator</title><productcode>DDOS-ADM</productcode><vendorcode>FO</vendorcode><vendorname>Fortinet</vendorname><fullproductcode>FO-DDOS-ADM</fullproductcode><version>7.2</version><objective>&lt;p&gt;After completing this course, you will be able to:
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&lt;li&gt;Train your FortiDDoS to recognize your unique network patterns&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Choose the correct FortiDDoS model&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Defend against both volumetric and mechanistic DDoS attacks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deploy FortiDDoS to protect both network appliances and servers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify when to use detection and prevention modes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Implement bypass or a high availability FortiDDoS cluster for maximum service uptime&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Detect connections from proxies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe how the blocking periods and penalty factors intelligently determine which packets are dropped after an attack is detected&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure access control lists and blocklists&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mitigate anomalies and SYN floods&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe the main characteristics of protection policies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Characterize different types of attacks by using logs and statistics graphs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Troubleshoot incorrect threshold levels&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</objective><essentials>&lt;p&gt;You should have a basic understanding of DDoS attacks and common DDoS mitigation solutions.&lt;/p&gt;</essentials><audience>&lt;p&gt;Security professionals involved in the day-to-day administration, management, and troubleshooting of FortiDDoS-F Series devices should attend this course.&lt;/p&gt;</audience><outline>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Introduction and Deployment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Initial Configuration&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Monitoring and Reporting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Global Settings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Service Protection&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</outline><objective_plain>After completing this course, you will be able to:



- Train your FortiDDoS to recognize your unique network patterns
- Choose the correct FortiDDoS model
- Defend against both volumetric and mechanistic DDoS attacks
- Deploy FortiDDoS to protect both network appliances and servers
- Identify when to use detection and prevention modes
- Implement bypass or a high availability FortiDDoS cluster for maximum service uptime
- Detect connections from proxies
- Describe how the blocking periods and penalty factors intelligently determine which packets are dropped after an attack is detected
- Configure access control lists and blocklists
- Mitigate anomalies and SYN floods
- Describe the main characteristics of protection policies
- Characterize different types of attacks by using logs and statistics graphs
- Troubleshoot incorrect threshold levels</objective_plain><essentials_plain>You should have a basic understanding of DDoS attacks and common DDoS mitigation solutions.</essentials_plain><audience_plain>Security professionals involved in the day-to-day administration, management, and troubleshooting of FortiDDoS-F Series devices should attend this course.</audience_plain><outline_plain>- Introduction and Deployment
- Initial Configuration
- Monitoring and Reporting
- Global Settings
- Service Protection</outline_plain><duration unit="d" days="2">2 days</duration><pricelist/><miles/></course>