Other Services
FortiGuard provides a number of additional services, including:
• Vulnerability Scanning - FortiGuard Services provide comprehensive and continuous updates for vulnerabilities, remediation, patch scan, and configuration benchmarks.
• Email Filtering - The FortiGuard Antispam Service uses both a sender IP reputation database and a spam signature database, along with sophisticated spam filtering tools on Fortinet appliances and agents, to detect and block a wide range of spam messages. Updates to the IP reputation and spam signature databases are provided continuously via the FDN.
• Messaging Services - Messaging Services allow a secure email server to be automatically enabled on your FortiGate unit to send alert email or send email authentication tokens. With the SMS gateway, you can enter phone numbers where the FortiGate unit will send the SMS messages.
Note that depending on your carrier, there may be a slight time delay on receiving messages.
• DNS and DDNS - The FortiGuard DNS and DDNS services provide an efficient method of DNS lookups once subscribed to the FortiGuard network. This is the default option. The FortiGate unit connects automatically to the FortiGuard DNS server. If you do not register, you need to configure an alternate DNS server.
Configure the DDNS server settings using the CLI commands:
config system fortiguard
set ddns-server-ip
set ddns-server-port
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