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FortiGate Authentication With AD:

o Businesses need to authenticate people who have access to company resources.


o Authentication will check the user’s or device credentials to verify their identity.
o Authentication is the act of confirming the identity of a person or other entity.
o In FortiGate FW authentication is the process of proving identity to the system.
o In FortiGate FW authentication is the validation of an identity or a credential.
o The user or computer or PC has to prove its identity to the server or to client.
o Log on to a computer with a user name and password you are authenticating.
o Authentication does not determine what tasks the individual or PC can do.
o Authentication merely identifies and verifies who the person or the system is.
o Basically, Authentication is all about who somebody or someone or system is.
o Identifying users and computers authentication is key part of network security.
o Authentication is the act of confirming the identity of a person or other entity.
o User’s authentication expires if connection is idle, for five minutes by default.

Active Authentication:
o User receive a login prompt & must manually enter credentials to authenticate.
o Example of Active Authentication can be LDAP, RADIUS, Local and TACACS plus.

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Passive Authentication:
o User does not receive a Login prompt credentials are determined automatically.
o Example of Passive Authentication varies depending on type of authentication.
o There are many methods such as Fortinet Single Sign on (FSSO), RSSO, NTLM etc.

FSSO:
o Fortinet Single Sign On (FSSO) provides seamless authentication support for AD.
o Fortinet Single Sign On (FSSO) provides seamless authentication Novell eDirectory.
o On a Microsoft Windows network, users authenticate with Active Directory at logon.
o Fortinet Single Sign on FSSO provides authentication information to FortiGate unit.
o So that users FSSO to allow users to login to network once with their AD credentials.
o Once login to network with AD credentials seamlessly access all network resources.
o Fabric connectors allow you to connect you’re the network to the external services.

Use agent-based Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) to allow users to login to the network once with
their Windows AD credentials and seamlessly access all appropriate network resources. The
agent software sends information about user logons to the FortiGate unit. With user info such
as IP address and user group memberships from the network, FortiGate security policies can
allow authenticated network access to users who belong to the appropriate user groups
without requesting their credentials again. The Domain Controller (DC) agent must be installed
on every domain controller.

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