Fortinet FORTIGATE-50B Instrução De Instalação

The FortiGate unit and the FortiOS operating system provide a wide range of 
features that enable you to control network and internet traffic and protect your 
network. This chapter describes some of these options and how to configure 
them.

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A protection profile is a group of settings you can adjust to suit your requirements 
for network protection. Since protection profiles apply different protection settings 
to traffic controlled by firewall policies, you can tailor the settings to the type of 
traffic each policy handles.

Use protection profiles to configure:

• antivirus protection
• web filtering
• web category filtering
• spam filtering
• content archiving
• instant messaging filtering and access control
• P2P access and bandwidth control
• logging options for policies and configurations within the policies
• rate limiting for VoIP protocols.

Using protection profiles, you can customize types and levels of protection for 
different firewall policies.

For example, while traffic between internal and external addresses might need 
strict protection, traffic between trusted internal addresses might need moderate 
protection. You can configure policies for different traffic services to use the same 
or different protection profiles.

The FortiGate unit is preconfigured with four default protection profiles. In many 
cases you can use these default protection profiles, or use them as a starting 
point in creating your own.

Applies maximum protection to HTTP, FTP, IMAP, POP3, and SMTP traffic. 

The strict protection profile may not be useful under normal circumstances but 

it is available when maximum protection is required.

Apply virus scanning to HTTP, FTP, IMAP, POP3, and SMTP traffic.