FortiGuard

FortiGuard services can be purchased and registered to your FortiGate unit. The FortiGate must be connected to the Internet in order to automatically connect to the FortiGuard Distribution Network (FDN) to validate the license and download FDN updates.

The FortiGuard subscription update services include:

• Antivirus (AV)
• Intrusion Protection Service (IPS)
• Application Control
• Antispam
• Web Filtering
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)

To view FDN support contract information, go to System > FortiGuard. The License Information table shows the status of your FortiGate’s support contract.

• IPv6 FortiGuard connections
• Configuring FortiGuard updates
• Configuring a proxy server for FortiGuard updates
• Manual updates
• Automatic updates
• Sending malware statistics to FortiGuard
• Update server location
• Filtering
• Override FortiGuard servers
• Online security tools
• FortiGuard anycast and third-party SSL validation
• Using FortiManager as a local FortiGuard server
• Cloud service communication statistics
• IoT detection service
• FortiAP query to FortiGuard IoT service to determine device details
• FDS-only ISDB package in firmware images