Who should attend
Anyone who is responsible for the day-to-day management of FortiSIEM.
Prerequisites
You must have an understanding of the topics covered in the following courses, or have equivalent experience.
System Requirements
If you take an online format of this class, you must have a computer that has the following:
- A high-speed Internet connection
- Up-to-date web browser
- PDF viewer
- Speakers / headphones
One of the following:
- HTML 5 support
- Up-to-date Java runtime environment (JRE) with Java Plugin enabled on your web browser
You should use a wired Ethernet connection, not a WiFi connection. Firewalls, including Windows Firewall or FortiClient, must allow connections to the online labs.
Course Objectives
After completing these courses, you will be able to:
- Identify business drivers for using SIEM tools
- Describe SIEM and PAM concepts
- Describe key features of FortiSIEM
- Understand how collectors, workers, and supervisors work together
- Configure notifications
- Create new users and custom roles
- Describe and enable devices for discovery
- Understand when to use agents
- Perform real-time, historic structured searches
- Group and aggregate search results
- Examine performance metrics
- Create custom incident rules
- Edit existing, or create new, reports
- Configure and customize the dashboards
- Export CMDB information
- Identify Windows Agent components
- Describe the purpose of Windows Agents
- Understand how the Windows Agent Manager works in various deployment models
- Identify reports that relate to Windows Agents
- Understand the FortiSIEM Linux file monitoring agent
- Understand agent registration
- Monitor agent communications after deployment
- Troubleshoot FortiSIEM issues
Course Content
In this three day course, you will learn about FortiSIEM initial configurations, architecture, and the discovery of devices on the network. You will also learn how to collect performance information and aggregate it with syslog data to enrich the overall view of the health of your environment, how to use the configuration database to greatly facilitate compliance audits, and how to integrate FortiSIEM into your network awareness infrastructure.
This course is part of the preparation for the NSE 5 certification exam.
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