What is data Leak Prevention in FortiGate?

The FortiGate data leak prevention (DLP) system prevents sensitive data from leaving or entering your network. You can customize the default sensor or create your own by adding individual filters based on file type, file size, a regular expression, an advanced rule, or a compound rule.

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What is FortiGate 40C?

The FortiGate-40C and FortiWiFi-40C are ideal for small businesses, small branch offices and retail outlets that require all the security functions of larger FortiGate devices in a small form factor. They offer comprehensive security protection against all manner of threats.

How do I block a file type in FortiGate?

File Filter allows the Web Filter profile to block files passing through a FortiGate based on file type. HTTP and FTP File Filtering is configurable in Web Filter profile. File Filtering in Web Filter profile is based on file type (file’s meta data) only, and not on file size or file content.

What is DMZ in FortiGate?

A DMZ is just a network design term that means that the network is firewalled in a way that it can not initiate traffic into a protected network. There isn’t anything special about the port or that network for that matter.

Why is DLP important?

Therefore, a data loss prevention strategy is vital to secure your data, protect intellectual property and stay compliant with regulations. DLP systems ensure that your company’s confidential/classified data is not lost, mishandled or accessed by unauthorized users.

How do I enable file filter in FortiGate?

To add a file filter to a web filter profile in the GUI. – Go to Security Profiles -> Web Filter. – Edit an existing profile, or create a new one. Enable ‘File Filter’, if not already enabled, then select ‘Create’ New in the filter table.

What is web content filter in FortiGate?

With the FortiGate’s Web Content Filtering, you can control access to web content by blocking web pages containing specific words or patterns. This helps to prevent access to pages with questionable material. You can specify words, phrases, patterns, wildcards and Perl regular expressions to match content on web pages.

What is web filtering in FortiGate firewall?

URL filter is also called static URL filter. By adding specific URLs with patterns containing text and regular expressions, FortiGate can allow, block, exempt, and monitor web pages matching any specified URLs or patterns, and can display a replacement message instead.

What are some effective ways to control data leakage?

7 Ways to Prevent Data Leaks in the Cloud

Use good quality encryption, both on stored data and connections.
Educate employees about phishing.
Use two-factor authentication.
Have a decent password policy.
Set correct user permissions.
Keep backups.
Use the right cloud provider.

How does FortiGate DNS filter work?

DNS filtering has the following features:

FortiGuard Filtering: filters the DNS request based on the FortiGuard domain rating.
Botnet C&C domain blocking: blocks the DNS request for the known botnet C&C domains.
External dynamic category domain filtering: allows you to define your own domain category.

How do I whitelist in FortiGate?

Whitelisting by Static URL Filter

First, navigate to the Phishing tab in your KnowBe4 console.
Log in to your Fortinet account.
Navigate to Security Profiles > Web Filter.
Create a new web filter or select one to edit.
Expand Static URL Filter, enable URL Filter, and select Create.
Enter the URLs, without the “https”.

How does a content filter differ from a firewall?

Fundamentally web filters and firewalls serve different purposes. A web filter blocks access to specific types of web content and a firewall prevents your network from exposing internal services and computers to external threats.

How does FortiGate data leak prevention work?

Data leak prevention examines network traffic for data patterns you specify. You define whatever patterns you want the FortiGate unit to look for in network traffic. The DLP feature is broken down into a number of parts. A DLP sensor is a package of filters.

Why choose the fortigate-40c or fortiwifi-40C for your business?

How does FortiGate handle sensitive data patterns?

When you define sensitive data patterns, data matching these patterns will be blocked, or logged and allowed, when passing through the FortiGate unit.

How does the FortiGate unit check network traffic?

The FortiGate unit checks network traffic for the regular expression specified in a regular expression filter. The regular expression library used by Fortinet is a variation of a library called PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions). A number of these filters can be added to a sensor making a sort of ‘dictionary’ subset within the sensor.

What is data Leak Prevention in FortiGate?