TECH 179 - Cyber Security System Management
(Fortinet Firewall Administration)

Spring 2026 Sam Bowne

Sections

Sect 1, 26668: Mon & Weds 7:30-8:45 am in ENG490 Canvas
Sect 2, 28524: Mon & Weds & 12:00-1:15 pm in ENG103 Canvas

Last day to add: Tue, Feb 17, 2026

Catalog Description

Key issue associated with protecting information assets. Levels of protection and response to security incidents. Planning for security and management of the system. Application of software, cryptography, encryption methods. Mobile and cloud systems security.

Admin Slides
FortiOS Admin Lesson 1: System and Network Settings FortiOS Admin Lesson 2: Logging and Monitoring FortiOS Admin Lesson 3: Firewall_Policies_and_NAT FortiOS Admin Lesson 4: Routing

Admin Lab Notes

Admin Lab 2 FortiAnalyzer is HQ-FAZ-1 Admin Lab 5 Exercise 1: In the "TO ASSIGN A USER TO A USER GROUP" section, Step 7 gave me an error message, but just waiting a few minutes and trying again fixed it. In the "TO MONITOR ACTIVE AUTHENTICATED USERS" section, Step 3 should say "right-click" aduser1 Exercise 2: In the "TO MONITOR ACTIVE AUTHENTICATED USERS" section, Step 3 should say "right-click" aduser1

Hands-On Labs
Firewall Setup via CLI In END 490, I used a laptop and two cables from the Cisco boxes: A blue console-to-USB cable A yellow Ethernet cable, from port 1 on the firewall to the laptop.

Last revised 4-14-26 10:25 am