Security Profiles

An administrator wants to inspect SSL traffic to a specific finance application that uses a custom port (9443) and a self-signed certificate. Which configuration is required?

Which TWO web filtering features can be used to block access to malicious websites? (Choose two.)

A company with 500 employees uses FortiGate as their internet gateway. They recently enabled SSL deep inspection using the built-in CA certificate. After deployment, many users report that they cannot access their online banking websites. The error message in the browser says 'The certificate is not trusted'. The administrator has already pushed the FortiGate CA certificate to all domain-joined computers via Group Policy. However, the problem persists for banking sites. The administrator also notices that banking sites load fine on mobile devices that do not have the CA certificate installed. What is the most likely cause and solution?

A network administrator notices that an IPS sensor is generating excessive false positives for a specific signature. The administrator wants to exclude traffic from a trusted internal server (IP 10.1.1.100) from inspection for that signature only, while keeping other signatures active. Which configuration change should the administrator apply?

An administrator has configured the policy shown in the exhibit. Traffic to the web server at 10.0.1.10 over HTTPS is allowed, but users complain that they cannot access the web server's login page. The IPS sensor 'High_Security_Sensor' has a signature that blocks SQL injection attempts. The application list 'Block_Social_Media' blocks Facebook and Twitter. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

Which THREE of the following are valid methods to exclude certain HTTPS traffic from SSL inspection on a FortiGate?

A company wants to block all peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic using Application Control on their FortiGate. They have enabled the application control profile, but users can still download files via BitTorrent. What is the most likely reason?

An administrator has configured an IPS sensor to block critical-severity attacks. However, after a week, they notice that a known exploit (CVE-2021-44228) is still getting through. Which configuration change should be made to improve detection?

A company is implementing SSL/TLS inspection on a FortiGate to monitor encrypted traffic. They want to ensure that traffic to high-risk categories is blocked, while traffic to financial sites is inspected but not blocked. The administrator creates an SSL inspection profile that deep-inspects all traffic except traffic to financial sites. However, users report that they cannot access financial websites. What is the most likely cause?

A company is deploying FortiGate for outbound web filtering. They want to block users from accessing social media sites during business hours, but still allow access to cloud-based productivity tools like Office 365. Which approach should the administrator use to meet this requirement?

A network administrator notices that some users can access blocked web categories despite a web filter profile applied to the policy. The admin runs 'diagnose debug rating' and sees 'rating not allow' for the category. What is the MOST likely cause?

An administrator wants to block users from uploading sensitive documents through webmail. Which security profile should be configured on the FortiGate to achieve this goal?

A FortiGate in flow-based mode is configured with an antivirus profile to block infected files. A user downloads a .zip file containing a known virus, but the download is allowed and the file is not quarantined. What is the MOST likely reason?

An administrator configures SSL deep inspection with a CA certificate. Users accessing an internal site (internal.company.com) receive a certificate error. The administrator wants to avoid the error without disabling deep inspection. What should be done?

What is the difference between certificate inspection and full SSL deep inspection on a FortiGate?

A FortiGate administrator is troubleshooting an issue where users cannot access a legitimate website that is categorized as 'Pornography' by FortiGuard. The web filter profile is configured to block that category. The administrator wants to allow access for a specific user group without modifying the global web filter profile. What is the BEST approach?

A FortiGate administrator is configuring SSL deep inspection for a firewall policy that handles traffic to multiple internal servers. Some servers have self-signed certificates. The administrator wants to avoid certificate errors for users. What configuration is recommended?

An administrator has configured an IPS profile with an anomaly detection sensor for 'tcp_syn_flood'. After applying the profile to a firewall policy, users report intermittent connectivity issues. The administrator runs 'diagnose ips anomaly list' and sees entries for 'tcp_syn_flood' with action 'pass'. What is the MOST likely cause of the connectivity issues?

A FortiGate administrator has configured a firewall policy with SSL deep inspection using a forward trust CA certificate. When users access an HTTPS website with a valid certificate, they still receive a certificate warning. What is the MOST likely reason?

A FortiGate administrator is configuring a data leak prevention (DLP) profile to prevent the leakage of social security numbers (SSNs) via email. Which TWO settings must be configured in the DLP profile?

A FortiGate administrator has configured an Application Control profile to block 'P2P' applications. However, users are still able to use BitTorrent. What is the MOST likely reason?

An administrator wants to prevent data leakage by blocking outbound emails that contain credit card numbers. Which security profile should be configured?

A FortiGate administrator wants to block spam emails sent to the company's mail server. The mail server is behind the FortiGate. Which THREE configurations should be applied?

A network administrator notices that HTTP traffic to a specific website is being blocked by the web filter profile, but the website is categorized as 'General – Personal' in FortiGuard, which is allowed. What could cause this block?

A FortiGate administrator configures SSL deep inspection on a policy using a self-signed CA certificate. Users report that they see a certificate warning in their browsers when accessing HTTPS sites. What is the most effective solution to eliminate these warnings?

What is the primary difference between flow-based and proxy-based Antivirus inspection on a FortiGate?

An administrator runs the following CLI command and sees the output: 'diagnose sys session list | grep -A 5 10.1.1.100' and finds a session with 'proto=6 proto_state=01 duration=3600 expire=3599'. What does this indicate about the session?

A FortiGate configured with IPS anomaly detection is generating false positives for the 'tcp_syn_flood' anomaly. The administrator wants to reduce the false positives without completely disabling the detection. Which action should the administrator take?

An administrator notices that a specific application (e.g., Skype) is not being detected by the application control profile. The profile includes the 'Skype' application signature but traffic is passing through without being logged as Skype. What is the most likely reason?

A FortiGate administrator is troubleshooting an issue where users cannot access an internal HTTPS server (10.10.10.10:443) after enabling SSL deep inspection. The administrator sees that the server's certificate is self-signed. Which TWO actions should the administrator take to allow access while maintaining inspection?

An administrator configures a web filter profile with FortiGuard category blocking and URL filter to allow example.com. Users report that example.com is still blocked. What is the most likely cause?

A FortiGate is configured with flow-based antivirus and an IPS profile on a policy. The administrator runs 'diagnose ips packet-list' and sees that packets are being forwarded without inspection. What is the most likely reason?

A network administrator wants to prevent users from downloading files with .exe extensions via HTTP and HTTPS. Which security profile feature should be used?

A FortiGate administrator receives reports that some users are receiving spam emails despite an email filter profile being applied to the SMTP traffic. The email filter profile has 'spam' action set to 'discard'. What is the most likely reason spam is still reaching users?

An administrator configured a DLP profile to detect credit card numbers in outgoing emails. The profile is applied to an outbound SMTP policy. Users report that emails with credit card numbers are still being sent successfully. What is the most likely cause?

A FortiGate is configured with flow-based inspection and an IPS profile. The administrator runs 'diagnose ips session list' and sees many sessions with 'state=bypass'. What does this indicate?

An administrator wants to block users from uploading files to cloud storage services like Google Drive via HTTPS. Which security profile combination is required?

A FortiGate admin notices that HTTPS traffic to a web server is not being scanned by the antivirus profile applied to the firewall policy. The admin confirms the policy is correct and antivirus is enabled. What is the MOST likely reason the traffic is not being scanned?

An administrator runs the CLI command 'diagnose debug rating' and sees that all FortiGuard web filter requests are timing out. What is the most likely cause?

A FortiGate is configured with SSL deep inspection using a self-signed CA certificate. Users report that they see a certificate warning in their browser when accessing HTTPS sites. The admin wants to eliminate these warnings. What should the admin do?

An administrator wants to block an application named 'Skype' on the network. They create an application control profile and add a rule to block 'Skype'. However, after applying the profile to the policy, users can still use Skype. What is the most likely reason?

A FortiGate administrator configures an email filter profile to block spam. Users report that some legitimate emails are being blocked. The administrator wants to reduce false positives while still blocking spam. What should the administrator do?

An administrator configures a DLP profile to detect credit card numbers in email traffic. The DLP rule uses a regular expression. However, the DLP sensor is not triggering on emails containing credit card numbers. What is a likely reason?

An administrator integrates FortiGate with FortiSandbox for advanced threat detection. The FortiGate is configured to send files to FortiSandbox for analysis. Despite correct configuration, files are not being submitted. The administrator runs 'diagnose debug application fortisandbox -1' and sees 'no server configured'. What is the issue?

A network administrator wants to prevent users from accessing known malicious websites using FortiGate. Which security profile should be applied to the firewall policy to achieve this goal?

A FortiGate administrator receives reports that users cannot access a legitimate website that uses HTTPS. The web filtering profile is configured with strict FortiGuard categories and 'monitor all' for unknown sites. The firewall policy has an SSL/SSH inspection profile set to 'deep-inspection'. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

What is the purpose of the DNS filter security profile on a FortiGate?

An administrator sees the following CLI output when checking an IPS sensor: 'config ips sensor edit test config entries edit 1 set severity medium set action block set target default end'. However, attacks with severity medium are still passing. The IPS sensor is applied to a policy with flow-based inspection. What is the likely issue?

An administrator receives reports that some internal users can access Facebook despite a web filtering profile that blocks the 'Social Networking' category. The policy is configured with deep inspection. Which THREE checks should the administrator perform to troubleshoot this issue?

Which inspection mode in the antivirus profile processes traffic by buffering the entire file before scanning, allowing more thorough detection but potentially increasing latency?

Which web filtering feature allows an administrator to force web search engines to filter explicit content in search results, regardless of the user's browser settings?

A FortiGate is configured for SSL deep inspection using a CA certificate. Users report that some websites show certificate errors. The administrator wants to allow these sites without inspection. Which setting should be used?

An administrator configures an application control profile to block 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' using application signatures. Users can still access Facebook via HTTPS. The firewall policy has application control enabled and SSL deep inspection is not configured. Why is Facebook not blocked?

What is the function of an IPS 'protocol decoder'?

A network admin wants to block all traffic from the BitTorrent application. The admin has enabled application control on the firewall policy. Which step is necessary to achieve this?

A network administrator notices that traffic from a specific internal host is not being inspected by the application control profile applied to the firewall policy. The policy is configured with proxy-based inspection and the application control profile includes a rule to block 'Facebook'. The administrator confirms the host can still access Facebook. What is the MOST likely cause?

A FortiGate administrator runs the following command and sees: 'diagnose ips anomaly list' returns no entries, but the IPS sensor is configured with anomaly signatures. What is the MOST likely reason the signatures are not appearing?

A FortiGate administrator needs to ensure that all outbound DNS queries from internal clients are inspected for malicious domains. The administrator has a DNS filter profile configured. What additional configuration is required on the firewall policy to make the DNS filter effective?

A FortiGate is configured with SSL deep inspection using a locally generated CA certificate. A user reports that they cannot access https://www.example.com and receive a certificate error. The administrator checks the firewall policy and sees that the SSL inspection profile is set to 'certificate-inspection' instead of 'deep-inspection'. What is the MOST likely effect?

A FortiGate administrator configures an IPS sensor with a signature that has a 'pass' action. The sensor is applied to a firewall policy. When traffic matches this signature, what will happen?

An administrator has configured DLP sensors to detect credit card numbers in outgoing traffic. However, the administrator notices that traffic containing credit card numbers is still passing through undetected. The firewall policy uses flow-based inspection. What is the MOST likely reason DLP is not detecting the data?

An organization wants to implement data leak prevention (DLP) to detect when credit card numbers are sent via email (SMTP) and webmail (HTTPS). The FortiGate is using proxy-based inspection. Which THREE configurations are necessary? (Choose three.)

An administrator runs 'diagnose ips anomaly list' and sees the following output: List of anomaly events: ID: 1, Type: tcp_syn_flood, Status: triggered, Count: 1500, Threshold: 1000 What does this indicate?

What is the difference between 'certificate inspection' and 'full SSL deep inspection' on a FortiGate?

You run 'diagnose sys session filter dport 443' and see the following output: proto=6 proto_state=01 duration=3600 expire=3599 What does this indicate?