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Introduction

This document describes Fortinet's recommended approach to configuring our secure web gateway (SWG) with VPN solution for FortiSASE. It covers configuration of the solution.

Executive summary

With the increased demand for a remote workforce and more applications moving to the cloud, companies must provide the network infrastructure for their employees to work securely from anywhere. While some organizations offer VPNs to securely access on-premise devices and servers, they may overlook the security of remote workers when they access cloud services on the Internet. Others may not be prepared for the amount of resources that is needed to secure all traffic coming from their remote workers using existing infrastructure.

This deployment guide looks at how FortiSASE SWG can provide secure direct Internet access for remote workers while supporting existing network infrastructure for accessing internal company resources through VPNs.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for a technical audience, including system and network architects, design engineers, network engineers, and security engineers who want to deploy FortiSASE SWG to secure their remote workers while integrating with existing network infrastructure.

The solution in this guide is targeted at small- and medium-sized organizations and enterprises.

This guide assumes that the reader is familiar with basic concepts of applications, networking, routing, security, and proxies, and has a basic understanding of network and data center architectures. For implementation with FortiOS, a working knowledge of FortiOS VPN is ideal.

About this guide

The deployment guide serves the purpose of going through the design and deployment steps involved in deploying a specific architecture. Readers should first evaluate their environments to determine whether the architecture and design that this guide outlines suits them.

Where appropriate, reviewing supplementary material in product admin guides, example guides, cookbooks, release notes, and other documents is recommended.

Introduction

This document describes Fortinet's recommended approach to configuring our secure web gateway (SWG) with VPN solution for FortiSASE. It covers configuration of the solution.

Executive summary

With the increased demand for a remote workforce and more applications moving to the cloud, companies must provide the network infrastructure for their employees to work securely from anywhere. While some organizations offer VPNs to securely access on-premise devices and servers, they may overlook the security of remote workers when they access cloud services on the Internet. Others may not be prepared for the amount of resources that is needed to secure all traffic coming from their remote workers using existing infrastructure.

This deployment guide looks at how FortiSASE SWG can provide secure direct Internet access for remote workers while supporting existing network infrastructure for accessing internal company resources through VPNs.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for a technical audience, including system and network architects, design engineers, network engineers, and security engineers who want to deploy FortiSASE SWG to secure their remote workers while integrating with existing network infrastructure.

The solution in this guide is targeted at small- and medium-sized organizations and enterprises.

This guide assumes that the reader is familiar with basic concepts of applications, networking, routing, security, and proxies, and has a basic understanding of network and data center architectures. For implementation with FortiOS, a working knowledge of FortiOS VPN is ideal.

About this guide

The deployment guide serves the purpose of going through the design and deployment steps involved in deploying a specific architecture. Readers should first evaluate their environments to determine whether the architecture and design that this guide outlines suits them.

Where appropriate, reviewing supplementary material in product admin guides, example guides, cookbooks, release notes, and other documents is recommended.