Fortinet Admin Authentication Explained

Imagine if you had ten administrators and ten firewalls. That means you need to manage 100 different accounts. That doesn’t sound like a pleasant day.

In this case, remote authentication is the proper tool to use. You only need to configure a single account per administrator by using remote authentication. These accounts are typically created in an LDAP server or something like Active Directory. These LDAP servers can be used to handle permissions for each administrator, too. So you can also restrict which administrators have access to specific firewalls.

Centralized access control and permissions are another excellent reason to use remote authentication in FortiGate Firewalls, even if you only have one firewall on-premise. It’s a pain to manage local accounts as administrators come and go from the organization.

What if you want to further secure your firewalls using 2FA or MFA? Multi-factor authentication has become popular in the enterprise space. If you are an Office 365 subscriber, you’re probably used to entering one-time passcodes received via email or notifications from the MS Authenticator app. FortiGate Firewalls are capable of using MFA, too. In this case, the firewalls will use a service called FortiToken.

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