Hardening your FortiGate

This guide describes some of the techniques used to harden (improve the security of) FortiGate devices and FortiOS.

This document contains the following sections:

• Building security into FortiOS
• FortiOS ports and protocols
• Security best practices

What's new in FortiOS 6.0.3

The following list contains new hardening features added in FortiOS 6.0.3. Click on a link to navigate to that section for further information.

• Changes to the maintainer account, see Disable the maintainer admin account.