Category Archives: FortiOS 5.6

FortiOS 5.6 Beta 2 NGFW Policy

NGFW Policy mode is going to make a bunch of engineers smile ear to ear. There are a lot of cool features coming in 5.6 that includes a much improved security fabric (with audit capabilities) as well as dashboard tweaks, source and destination NAT on the same policy etc. The one feature I have been adamantly submitting to Fortinet over the past few years has been NGFW style policy. Check out the video below where I go into detail!

 

FortiOS 5.6 Beta 2 Kicks Ass

So, if you guys have viewed or read my “Where Fortinet is Messing Up” page….you know that I much prefer the way Palo Alto Networks does app assignment on policies.

5.6 Beta 2 is flipping that on it’s head though as it seems to be more aligned. The ability to select the policy and the web category from the policy is going to make policy creation significantly more granular and simple / straight forward.

I am a happy boy!