Strengthen security operations with centralized visibility and analytics.

Learn how to use FortiAnalyzer to collect, analyze, and manage security data across your organization.

Develop practical skills in log management, event analysis, reporting, threat investigation, and security monitoring to improve visibility, compliance, and operational efficiency.

  • Why get Fortinet trained: Gain hands-on knowledge of FortiAnalyzer capabilities that help security teams monitor activity, investigate incidents, generate reports, and improve security operations.
  • Why it matters: Organizations need centralized visibility into security events and network activity to strengthen threat detection, support compliance requirements, and respond more effectively to security incidents.
  • Who should attend: Security administrators, network security engineers, SOC analysts, cybersecurity professionals, Fortinet administrators, IT operations teams, and professionals responsible for monitoring and managing security environments.

Build the skills to improve security visibility, reporting, and incident investigation with FortiAnalyzer. HRD Corp Claimable.

Overview

In this FortiAnalyzer Administrator course, you will learn how to deploy, configure, and secure FortiAnalyzer.

You will also learn how to register and manage devices with FortiAnalyzer. Finally, you will explore the fundamentals of the logging and reporting management capabilities included in FortiAnalyzer.

These skills will provide you with a solid foundation for becoming a professional FortiAnalyzer administrator.

Product Versions: FortiAnalyzer 7.6

Skills Covered

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the purpose of FortiAnalyzer
  • Describe the FortiAnalyzer operating modes
  • Understand logging in a Fortinet Security Fabric environment
  • Describe FortiAnalyzer Fabric
  • Manage administrative domains (ADOMs)
  • Configure network settings
  • Configure secure administrative access
  • Manage the disk quota
  • Perform a system configuration backup
  • Manage RAID
  • Manage HA
  • Register and manage devices
  • Describe the log file workflow
  • Perform log backups
  • Understand Fabric connectors
  • Configure log redundancy and encryption
  • Configure log rollover and retention policy
  • Manage reports

Prerequisites

You must be familiar have an understanding of all the topics covered in the FortiGate Operator course, or have equivalent experience.

Target Audience

Anyone who is responsible for the day-to-day management of FortiAnalyzer devices should attend this course.

Course Curriculum

  • Module 1: Introduction and Initial Configuration
  • Module 2: Administration and Management
  • Module 3: RAID and HA
  • Module 4: Device Management
  • Module 5: Logs and Reports Management

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Exam & Certification

This course prepares you for the Fortinet NSE 6 – FortiAnalyzer Administrator exam which is part of the Fortinet NSE 6 in Secure Networking certification.

The NSE 6 in Secure Networking certification validates your ability to deploy, manage, and monitor Fortinet advanced network security products to secure networks and applications

We recommend this certification for cybersecurity professionals who require the expertise needed to deploy, manage, and analyze Fortinet network security devices.

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Frequently Asked Questions

You will learn how to deploy, configure, secure, maintain, and manage FortiAnalyzer for centralized security logging, device management, and reporting.

This course gives you practical skills for administering FortiAnalyzer 7.6 within a Fortinet Security Fabric environment. You will learn how to:

  • Configure and secure administrative access
  • Manage devices and administrative domains (ADOMs)
  • Configure RAID and high availability
  • Manage disk usage and storage quotas
  • Configure log forwarding, redundancy, and encryption
  • Define log rollover and retention policies
  • Manage reports and backups
  • Perform system maintenance

Pro Tip: If you already manage FortiGate devices, consider how your organization currently handles logs, reporting, and retention. This will help you connect the FortiAnalyzer exercises directly to your environment.

This course is ideal if you are responsible for deploying, administering, maintaining, or troubleshooting FortiAnalyzer as part of your organization’s security infrastructure.

You should consider this course if you work as a:

  • Network Security Administrator
  • Network Security Engineer
  • Fortinet Administrator
  • Security Infrastructure Engineer
  • Cybersecurity Administrator
  • Security Operations professional

The course is particularly relevant if your role involves maintaining Fortinet infrastructure and you need greater control over centralized logging, reporting, device management, and security visibility.

Pro Tip: If your day-to-day role involves maintaining the FortiAnalyzer platform itself, choose this course over training primarily focused on analyzing security events.

You should understand FortiGate Operator-level concepts or have equivalent hands-on experience working with FortiGate.

This is an intermediate-level course and assumes you already understand the fundamentals of a Fortinet environment. Previous experience with FortiGate administration will help you understand how devices, logs, and security information integrate with FortiAnalyzer.

You do not need to be an advanced Fortinet specialist, but you should be comfortable with core FortiGate concepts before attending.

Pro Tip: Refresh your FortiGate administration, logging, and Security Fabric fundamentals beforehand if you have not worked with them recently.

You will develop practical skills for managing FortiAnalyzer as an operational security platform rather than simply learning its features theoretically.

The course covers real administrative responsibilities such as:

  • Registering and managing Fortinet devices
  • Configuring administrative access and authentication
  • Working with ADOMs
  • Monitoring disk utilization
  • Managing storage quotas
  • Configuring log redundancy
  • Protecting logs with encryption
  • Establishing retention policies
  • Backing up configurations and logs
  • Configuring high availability
  • Maintaining and upgrading the platform

These skills are directly applicable to organizations operating Fortinet security environments.

Pro Tip: Pay particular attention to HA, storage, backups, and log retention. These areas become increasingly important as your Fortinet environment and security-data volumes grow.

Yes. FortiAnalyzer Administrator develops skills relevant to Fortinet’s professional-level Network Security certification pathway.

The course covers FortiAnalyzer administration capabilities such as system configuration, device management, logging, reporting, storage, HA, and maintenance that support your broader Fortinet certification journey.

However, the certification exam is not included with this course, so training and certification should be treated as separate steps.

Pro Tip: If certification is your goal, use the course to build practical product knowledge and then review Fortinet’s latest exam objectives before attempting the relevant certification exam.

ortiAnalyzer administration skills can strengthen your capabilities in network security, Fortinet administration, security infrastructure, and security operations roles.

The course develops practical competencies applicable to roles such as:

  • Network Security Administrator
  • Network Security Engineer
  • Fortinet Administrator
  • Cybersecurity Administrator
  • Security Operations Engineer
  • Security Infrastructure Engineer

It is particularly relevant if you work, or plan to work, in an organization using the Fortinet Security Fabric and need practical experience managing centralized security logging and visibility.

Fortinet also maps the course to continuing professional education, including 4 ISC2 CPE training hours and 3 CPE lab hours, with relevance to the CISSP Security Operations domain.

Pro Tip: Combine FortiAnalyzer administration with FortiGate and security operations expertise to build a broader skill set across security enforcement, centralized visibility, and operational management.

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