Attend one of our Fast Track Workshops for an impactful hands-on experience focused on a particular Fortinet technology. Each workshop is based on a specific business or technology use case and provides you with an immediate understanding of the Fortinet solution.

Have you been considering Fortinet Network Security Expert (NSE) certification? Attend a Fast Track Workshop to gain a better understanding of the type of training you can expect as you progress through the eight levels of the NSE program. Although the Fast Track Workshops are designed for a technical audience, no previous Fortinet training is required before attending.

The following Fast Track Workshops will be offered to all Accelerate attendees:

As enterprise networks have morphed and changed with digital transformation, once relied upon tools have become outdated and obsolete. Yet, many are still deployed alongside newer technology stacks, creating a complex environment that does not interoperate. Enterprises deploy an average of 32 different vendor solutions that lack shared threat intelligence—a cybersecurity hurdle that is often compounded with a lack of skilled cybersecurity personnel to manage these networks.

The Fortinet management and analytics solution provides a powerful automation-ready single pane of glass for management and visibility, advanced compliance reporting, and network-aware rapid response across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. 

Attend this technical training workshop and gain hands-on experience implementing the solution's key capabilities and applying them to centrally manage a fictitious organization’s HQ and branch networks from a single pane of glass.

Effective security requires visibility of all the devices across the entire infrastructure in real time, with context. It must know what devices represent a threat along with their capability—so you can manage and remediate threats, not the noise multiple security tools create.  Fortinet’s multi-vendor Security Incident and Events Management (SIEM) solution, FortiSIEM, brings it all together by integrating NOC-SOC solutions to automate IT processes and security responses. Visibility, correlation, automated response, and remediation all come in a single, scalable solution. Using a FortiSIEM, the complexity of managing network and security operations is reduced, freeing resources, and improving breach detection. FortiSIEM provides the cross correlation, machine learning, and user entity and behavior analytics (UEBA) to improve overall response and effectively stop breaches before they occur.  

Attend this workshop to help understand the FortiSIEM architecture and powerful feature set. Gain experience running analytic searches to aid in the rapid detection and remediation of multiple security events. 

Convergence is blurring the lines between IT and OT, creating an opportunity to improve the visibility, control, and situational awareness necessary for critical systems. Failure to take the wide range of security issues into account when converging these two different networks and networking philosophies can result in catastrophic network failures that risk critical systems as well as the well-being of workers and communities. The Fortinet Security Fabric represents the first-ever architectural security approach designed to dynamically adapt to unique needs of legacy OT environments while enabling the move towards modernizing these critical systems. Leveraging the Purdue Model for the security layers needed in OT, the multi-layered approach offered by the Fortinet Security Fabric provides broad, integrated, and automated protection against sophisticated threats. 

Attend this technical workshop to help understand the differences between securing IT and OT environments and the importance of active security. Gain hands-on experience applying the Fortinet Security Fabric to better secure operational technologies.

As security architects consider how to provide comprehensive threat protection for their enterprises, that includes intrusion prevention, web filtering, anti-malware, and application control, they face a major complexity hurdle managing point products with no integration and lack of visibility. 

FortiGate next-generation firewall (NGFW) utilizes purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence security services from FortiGuard labs to deliver top-rated protection and high performance including encrypted traffic. FortiGate reduces complexity by integrating various point products into NGFW features with automated action and enhanced visibility into applications, users, and networks.

Attend this technical training session and gain hands-on experience fortifying the enterprise network with the Fortinet NGFW solution.

The number and types of network-connected devices continue to grow exponentially, presenting new vulnerabilities and increasing the attack surface. Addressing this trend requires much more than just network access control. It requires scanning for malware, preventing access to malicious websites, checking endpoint integrity, and controlling application usage while reducing complexity of network, application, and device management.

Fortinet's secure unified access solution provides comprehensive security on the network infrastructure. The tight integration between the FortiGate appliances, FortiSwitch devices, and FortiAP wireless access points enables a common security policy across the network, extending the protection of the firewall out to the edge.

Endpoints are frequently the target of initial compromise or attacks. FortiClient strengthens endpoint security through integrated visibility, control, and proactive defense. With the ability to discover, monitor, and assess endpoint risks, you can ensure endpoint compliance, mitigate risks, and reduce exposure. FortiClient proactively defends against advanced attacks. Its tight integration with the Security Fabric enables policy-based automation to contain threats and control outbreaks.

It provides advanced endpoint protection with pattern-based anti-malware, behavior-based exploit protection, web-filtering, and an application firewall. FortiClient natively integrates with FortiSandbox to detect zero-day threats and custom malware. It also provides secure remote access with built-in VPN, single sign-on, and two-factor authentication for added security.

Attend this technical training workshop to gain hands-on experience controlling endpoints using FortiClient EMS in mixed Windows and Linux environments, and see first-hand how FortiClient integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric to protect your companies’ critical assets.

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting public and internal web applications. Today, nearly half of all data breaches are caused by attacks targeting web application vulnerabilities. To protect organizations from such attacks, web application firewalls (WAFs) are the gold standard. However, some organizations may be reluctant to use these devices as they have a reputation for being resource-intensive, especially when it comes to quickly addressing false positive detections ito ensure that legitimate users and applications do not get blocked.

In this workshop, you will learn how FortiWeb’s new AI-based machine learning addresses these shortcomings, why it is better than application learning, and why signature-based protection alone is not enough.

SD-WAN is the most sought out technology in 2019 to replace legacy WAN edge products to embrace continuing growth in cloud applications. SD-WAN enables digital transformation with business aware application steering at lower WAN cost and improves the productivity of end users. FortiGate Secure SD-WAN combines best of breed SD-WAN with next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) to further reduce cost and complexity of the network infrastructure.

For the first time, Fortinet will unveil deeper integration for SD-WAN with LAN devices for an SD-Branch solution that is a unique differentiator in the crowded SD-WAN market.

If you are a network or security practitioner, you might think you can build an effective security architecture by deploying a robust perimeter firewall. But the perimeter has become less effective due to mobile computing and workloads migrating to multiple clouds on the WAN side. And on the LAN side, malware coming from trusted users, rogue APs, and Shadow IT each add another micro-perimeter that you must also now defend. As a result, the fortified perimeter has become the sum of all of the micro-perimeters tied to the growing number of devices consuming networked services across all locations. Segmentation is a good starting point to deal with this, but it lacks adaptive trust and advanced security.

In this session, you will discover the benefits of adopting this new approach and how you can build a robust and high-performance security architecture with intent-based segmentation. Intent-based segmentation intelligently segments IT assets in accordance with business intent, and employs adaptive trust, control, and automated threat protection to mitigate risks and achieve compliance with reduced complexity. 

Do you know what the leading cause of attack is? According to a recent Ponemon study, 52% of all breaches are a direct result of either system glitches or human errors. Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) solutions can help remediate these organizational issues.

In this session you will learn how FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer can orchestrate security fabric components, automate operations, and route incidents and vulnerabilities to appropriate resources. These solutions improve security incident response times, vulnerability management processes, and more importantly, provide real-time visibility into the overall network security posture to help protect against the leading cause of breaches—system glitches and human error.

Too few qualified staff, too many security tools, underrated threats, and high board expectations can make managing security operations a daunting task. This interactive session discusses and demonstrates how an integrated approach to advanced threats makes Gartner's CARTA model a reality. Learn how business critical services, security events, and workflows can be automated with the tools and vendors in your enterprise today, as well as how established and emerging tools like security information and event management (SIEM), sandboxing, user entity and behavior analytics (UEBA), and deception can assist an overworked CISO and security operations unit.

FortiGuard Labs processes over 100 billion security events per day, representing data from the endpoint to the cloud. This gives us a unique and unprecedented view into the threat world. In this presentation you will get an overview of the current threat landscape including: what schemes bad actors employ to evade detection, recent cybercrime trends, and additional cyber threat trends.

You will get an overview of FortiGuard Labs' mature and leading-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) program that provides protection capabilities that feed into products across the Fortinet portfolio. Our AI/ML program continues to expand in breadth and depth and this update will showcase how we stay ahead of the pack.

The role of the CISO and the pressures that it brings can be overwhelming, often adding incrased responsibilities for networking and security teams to produce quality results. Teams must work diligently and tirelessly collecting and analyzing cyber data across a rapidly growing attack surface, while at the same time, attempting to rationalize results and present details in simple business terms.

In this session, you will learn about the 10 proven strategies teams can use to create an environment of trust and assurance. Find out how the Fortinet Security Fabric can help CISOs along with network and security teams to set practical goals, simplify operations, and create an environment of trust and assurance.

Enterprises are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud architectures, integrating on-premises private clouds with public cloud resources to take advantage of the scale and performance benefits, yet consistent security is a top priority. FortiGate-VMs extend Security Fabric automation, visibility, and control to multi-cloud environments. Fortinet’s IPSec and secure sockets layer (SSL) VPNs allow enterprises to securely connect their on-premises networks to multiple clouds. 

This interactive session will demonstrate how Fortinet’s FortiGate virtual appliances can provide seamless security across the software defined data center(SDDC), private, public and hybrid clouds. 

In this interactive session, you will learn about the security considerations, use cases, and Fortinet’s solutions for securing applications built in the public cloud. Learn about the use of virtual network segmentation and application control policies in the cloud, based on FortiGate-VM. Additionally, discover a variety of tools to secure cloud-based web applications and APIs. Get a sneak peek at the new Fortinet cloud security posture management and analytics capabilities designed to help customers protect from the leading cloud risk—cloud configuration mistakes.

Plant managers and network analysts face an increasingly daunting challenge of managing cyber risk in the face of increasing threats and attacks. Keeping employee safety and process uptime are paramount priorities, yet how do you protect older, unpatched systems, respond to malware, and ensure a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity? 

Come learn how Fortinet’s Security Fabric is applied intelligently to manufacturing, energy, and transportation industries to enable compliance and risk mitigation. You will learn how the technologies for securing the IT side of the house can be adapted and applied to the OT side of the house. 

The access layer is the broadest attack surface in your network, and it is only getting worse with Internet of Things (IoT) devices entering the network. This session will cover how FortiSwitch and FortiAP secure access products integrate with the Security Fabric, making security a native part of your access technology. With FortiLink technology, you can extend the power of FortiGate to FortiSwitch and FortiAP, allowing everything to be managed and secured from a single interface. 

Come learn how Fortinet Secure Access can improve your network by delivering less hassle, fewer systems to configure, lower TCO, and a better overall experience.

With organizations rapidly developing new web applications and migrating email and other services to the cloud, they have become much more agile. However, organizations must ensure their networks maintain security, governance, and a high-quality, consistent user experience, while leveraging the cloud to its fullest potential. 

In this session, you will learn how FortiWeb, FortiADC, and FortiMail can help secure and scale applications in and out of public, private, and Security-as-a-Service clouds, such as Microsoft Office 365, G-suite, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.

Today’s dynamic network infrastructures support employees, vendors, contractors, and guests, as well as laptops, smart phones, printers, and new Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Providing access while ensuring security is no easy task when off-network activity, malicious and negligent insiders, Shadow IT, and unsecure IoT risks challenge enterprise security teams. 

Come learn how the Fortinet Security Fabric can manage risk, including how FortiClient, FortiUEBA, FortiNAC, and FortiAuthenticator work together to deliver an integrated solution that protects every user and every device on your network. Provide the right level of access and security.

Meeting the Challenges of Healthcare Digitization

Session Speaker(s): Sonia Arista, National Healthcare Lead, Fortinet; Lynne A. Dunbrack, Research Vice President, IDC Health Insights, Tim Murphy, Information Security Administrator, Riverside Healthcare and Mark Plunkett, IT Manager, Maple Knoll Communities

Increased digital transformation in healthcare is challenging organizations with inconsistent and distributed security postures and controls. The adoption of next-generation technologies—mobile devices, cloud capabilities, and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) means that this new digital enablement requires nurses, doctors, clinicians, and caregivers to access secure patient data—no matter where they are or what device they are using. At the same time, the risk to personally identifiable information (PII) and electronic protected health information (ePHI) has never been greater, as black-market value of patient data stays at an all-time high.

As recent headlines about large-scale data breaches show, healthcare remains a top target for cyber criminals. In the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Report, IBM and the Ponemon Institute found that data breach costs for healthcare organizations average $408 per record—the highest of any industry for the eighth straight year and nearly three times higher than the cross-industry average of $148 per record.

Join this interactive session and hear from the speakers as they discuss:

• Struggles for visibility
• Convergence of physical and digital security
• Managing the growth and complexity of mergers and acquisitions
• Automation to reduce resource constraints, drive consistent controls, and shorten time to remediate

Managing Digital Transformation Within State and Local Governments and Education

Session Speaker: Jeff Jennings, National SLED Practice Director, Fortinet

Emerging cyberthreats, the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart building projects, and other challenges can overwhelm resource constrained IT staff. This panel discussion will explore the unique challenges that digital transformation presents for governments and educational institutions. Hear from practitioners who are managing digital transformation with network security strategies, such as segmentation and solutions that can see and classify everything on their networks including headless devices, and can control those devices and users, all while providing dynamic, automated responses to threats.

In this interactive session, you will learn about different aspects of digital transformation such as:

• Managing the influx of IoT devices and other smart building initiatives and technologies
• The convergence of physical and cybersecurity on campuses and in cities
• Compliance concerns in a digital era, including NIST, CIPA, and FERPA
• Operational planning from resource constraints to funding projects

Mitigating Risk and Fortifying Agency Security with Fortinet Federal

Session Speaker(s): Bob Fortna, President, Fortinet Federal

With the introduction of cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and other emerging technologies, the federal government’s digital footprint is growing at an exponential rate. But as the amount of data continues to increase, so do the number of adversaries and vulnerabilities in the government’s networks.

As prime targets for the most sophisticated adversaries seeking to impact national security, public safety, and civilian services, federal governments require the most effective and comprehensive cybersecurity solutions available—while maintaining high performance. At the same time, they must work within mandated budget constraints, incorporate advancing technology, and remain open to the citizens they serve.

In this interactive session, you will hear from speakers as they discuss:

• Detailed overview of U.S. Federal Government cyber priorities and programs 
• Fortinet Federal’s approach to advancing federal agencies’ missions and cyber objectives
• Fortinet Federal Partner Program: how Fortinet is creating a successful federal partner ecosystem to secure government networks

The Journey to Digital Transformation: Securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT)

Session Speaker: Rick Peters, Director, Operational Technology Global Enablement, Fortinet, Petra Rühl, Head of Security Innovations, Deutsche Telekom Germany and Stuart Gibson, Director, Cybersecurity, Alaska Airlines

A system crash on a manufacturing floor can stall production for hours and potentially cost a company millions in ruined product.  Even worse, having to reset an open furnace or a 10,000-gallon boiler processing caustic chemicals can have far more devastating consequences than temporarily losing access to an online printer.  Because the primary goals of an OT environment are ensuring the safety of employees and local communities and ensuring the constant availability and uptime of the network, connected devices, applications, and industrial control systems are often not consistently updated.

In this interactive session, experts will discuss security without compromising availability or safety so important to operational technology and critical infrastructure security.  Hear from Deutche Telekom and Alaska Airlines discussing lessons learned and how their experience can be leveraged to successfully secure OT environments. The session will also cover how the Fortinet Fabric solution will protect and defend the control system vulnerabilities in industries such as manufacturing, energy, utilities and transportation.

Region: All Regions
Session Speaker(s): Neil Matz, Manager, Product Marketing, Fortinet; Ben Bolen, Systems Engineer, Fortinet

The Cyber Threat Assessment Program (CTAP) is designed to help you convert prospects and expand your business within your existing accounts and give prospects an in-depth view of the current state of their network. 

During this session, you will learn how to pitch the CTAP as a pre-sales and renewal tool to help you land and expand your business, and how to build it into your business model to drive greater profitability.

Session Speaker(s): Dante Mercurio, Manager Systems Engineering, MSSP and Service Enablement, StratoZen; Kevin Prince, Founder and CEO, StratoZen

From initial setup to automating operational functions, you will learn how to build managed security service provider (MSSP) services using FortiSIEM. Understand the top concerns and best practices to ensure your FortiSIEM instance is multitenant-capable, built properly for scale, and provides your desired business returns.

Session Speaker: Jon Bove, Vice President of North America Channels, Fortinet

The industry is changing, and Fortinet is leading the way to help you maximize your security practice, automate your offering, and bring overall operational efficiency to you and your team. Join us to learn more about what's in store for the Fortinet Partner Program, including new offerings like FortinetOne, our SSO SaaS platform, and the revolutionary services marketplace, making it easy for you to expand your footprint through partnerships. 

Region: United States
Session Speaker: Jeff Jennings, National SLED Practice Director, Fortinet

Need some E-rate clarification? Want to learn how to develop the right opportunities and make sure you know your rights and responsibilities? Attendees will receive an update on issues effecting E-rate 2019 and look through the crystal ball to 2020. The session is designed to be interactive, and will include a live Q&A. 

Session Speaker: Patrick Grillo, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing

The benefits of SD-WAN are clear as evidenced by the massive market opportunity being forecast over the next several years.  But as usual in a Wild, Wild West market not all SD-WAN solutions are equal.

Besides satisfying the wide area networking requirements of SD-WAN – optimizing application performance, direct Cloud access and reducing WAN costs – leading SD-WAN solutions should also have comprehensive security at the top of their feature list.  But that security capability should extend to the entire branch office infrastructure, not just the wide area connection.  That’s why SD-Branch is starting to take hold and should be part of your branch office transformation journey.

This session will focus on the key network and security features that any SD-Branch solution should have in ordered to be considered by your customers as well as compelling arguments why enterprises should be focused on the advantages of a single security posture across all of their network.  To coin a well-known phrase, there’s much to be gained by asking “You want fries with that”?

Session Speaker: Stephan Tallent, Sr. Director, MSSP

Get an in-depth look at trends in the MSSP market, including how to profit from the digital transformation, filling gaps in your service offering, along with updates and new service enablement programs for Fortinet MSSPs.  

Session Speaker: Jay Garcia, Program Administrator, MSSP & Service Enablement

With a 0% unemployment rate among cybersecurity operators, customers and partners alike face a major challenge when it comes to finding qualified security professionals. During this track you will learn more about how Fortinet is working to fill the cybersecurity skills gap with the Fortinet Veterans Program and the Network Security Academy.

Beyond Managed Security—Managed Infrastructure.

Session Speaker(s): Jon Garside, Director, Product Marketing, Fortinet;  Darius Goodall, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Fortinet; Ben Wilson, Vice President, Product Management, R&D

Our presenters will discuss and demonstrate the ease in creating a full-service service provider business model, encompassing both network security and perimeter security. This session shows the journey to establishing your own “franchise” where the infrastructure is yours, the customer relationship is yours, and the partnership is transparent. Learn how Fortinet’s technology, clouds, and programs can be harnessed as the growth point of your business.

Session Speaker(s): Jon Garside, Director, Product Marketing, Fortinet; Glenn Ewing, Partner Service Manager, Fortinet; Eric Gravett, Chief Revenue Officer, StratoZen; Alex Ryals, Vice President of Security Solutions, Tech Data

Security as a Service is as relevant to SMB organizations as it is Enterprise – the business wants to purchase defined successful outcomes and assurance. In this session, the presenters show how partnership, technology and relationships can be harnessed to build an MSSP program with managed and co-managed SIEM. You’ll learn how to manage your customers’ multi-vendor security environment profitably and with scale and sustainability through a managed detection and response service program that can be built without upfront investment and offer the industry’s leading SLAs.

Session Speaker(s): Dante Mercurio, Manager, Systems Engineering; Kevin Prince, Founder and CEO, StratoZen

From initial setup to automating operational functions, our presenters will review how to build MSSP services using FortiSIEM by taking a look at top concerns and best practices to ensure your FortiSIEM instance is multitenant-capable, built properly for scale, and provides your desired business returns.

Session Speaker: Jim Hilving, Sr. Systems Engineer, MSSP

Learn how to build MSSP service automation into the Security Fabric using micro-services. Automation projects and reaching your goals of operational efficiency can be a challenge. The MSSP team can help you organize and reach these objectives no matter how high your level of operational maturity.