Rosato Fabbri - Getting Started with FortiGate

Rosato Fabbri , 50 years old, has been the IT Manager for Need s.r.l. for the last 10 years. The company has more than a thousand users spread across eight sites (a national headquarters in Italy and a network of remote offices abroad). Need's network is entirely based on FortiGate appliances and on secure VPNs over the Internet. Rosato used his first FortiGate in 2003 and for him it was "love at first sight". He fully used the competitive advantage of Fortinet technology, both in functionalities and in features and that advantage made Need a use case, enabling the company to gain the trust of its customers and adding a lead over competitors.

Fabrizio Volpe has worked in the Iccrea Banking Group since 2000, as Network and Systems Administrator. Since 2011 he has been awarded the Microsoft MVP on Directory Services from Microsoft, and his focus is on Windows systems, security, and unified communications. Since the year 2000 Fabrizio has delivered speeches at many events and conferences (both Italian and international). He is committed to creating content that is accessible to a wide number of people, so he often publishes content on his Lync2013 channel on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/lync2013), on his personal blog (http://blog.lync2013.org), and on SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/fabriziov). In the last year Fabrizio has published two books with Packt, Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 and Instant Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile Conguration Starter . He has also made available a free e-book, Microsoft Lync Server 2013: Basic Administration in the TechNet gallery (http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Lync-Server-2013-Basic-0a86824d).

This work is dedicated to those who live every day with me, my family, Federico and Antonella, and to my parents.

I want to thank all the people at Packt Publishing for the opportunity to write this book and for all their great work on the long road from drafting to publishing.

I would like to express my gratitude to all the tech reviewers that have contributed with their expertise and ideas to this book.

I extend heartfelt thanks to the people at Gruppo Need (http://www.need.it/) for offering the hardware, infrastructure, and tech support for the labs I have used during the preparation of the book.

Marco Alamanni has professional experience working as a Linux System Administrator and Information Security Administrator in banks and financial institutions, in Italy and Peru. He holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and an M.Sc in Information Security. His interests in information technology include ethical hacking, digital forensics, malware analysis, Linux, and programming, among others. He also collaborates with IT magazines, writing articles on Linux and IT Security.

I'd like to thank my family, especially my wife and my little son, for their love and support.

Andreas Felder attended Rochester Institute of Technology and earned his Bachelor's degree in Applied Networking and System Administration as well as Information Security and Forensics. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Networking and System Administration. He has been working for six years as a System Administrator, with partial responsibility for the implementation and maintenance of the entire network and systems infrastructure, including several FortiGate firewalls.

Sebastian Knoop-Troullier has been firmly entrenched in the field of Information Security for over 15 years. He has more than 10 years experience in working with Fortinet products and also publishes the "Firewall Guru" blog, a real-world resource for Fortinet firewalls.