FortiGate AWS Deployment Guide

Step 7 – Testing

Step 7.1 – Launch a RDP session to test

 

Figure 31

Step 7.2 – Retrieve your VM’s password

On the EC2 Dashboard, Right click your test VM instance and select Get Windows Password

 

Figure 32

    You will be asked for the key pair you created to decypt the administrotr password.

 

Figure 33

 

Step 7.3 – Test Outbound access

For testing purposes I have attempted to download a file from eicar.org to show that the FortiGate is inline for outbound traffic. See Figures 34-35.

 

Figure 34

 

Figure 35


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Michael Pruett, CISSP has a wide range of cyber-security and network engineering expertise. The plethora of vendors that resell hardware but have zero engineering knowledge resulting in the wrong hardware or configuration being deployed is a major pet peeve of Michael's. This site was started in an effort to spread information while providing the option of quality consulting services at a much lower price than Fortinet Professional Services. Owns PacketLlama.Com (Fortinet Hardware Sales) and Office Of The CISO, LLC (Cybersecurity consulting firm).

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