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Preventing attacks
Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS)
Enabling NIDS attack prevention signatures
The NIDS Prevention module contains signatures that are designed to protect your
network against attacks. Some signatures are enabled by default; others must be
enabled. For a complete list of NIDS Prevention signatures and descriptions, see the
FortiGate NIDS Guide
.
1
Go to
NIDS > Prevention
.
2
Check the box in the Enable column beside each signature that you want to enable.
3
Select Check All
to enable all signatures in the NIDS attack prevention signature
list.
4
Select Uncheck All
to disable all signatures in the NIDS attack prevention
signature list.
5
Select Reset to Default Values
to enable only the default NIDS attack prevention
signatures and return to the default threshold values.
Figure 36: Example NIDS attack prevention signature list entries
Setting signature threshold values
You can change the default threshold values for the NIDS Prevention signatures listed
in
Table 6
. The threshold depends on the type of attack. For flooding attacks, the
threshold is the maximum number of packets received per second. For overflow
attacks, the threshold is the buffer size for the command. For large ICMP attacks, the
threshold is the ICMP packet size limit to pass through.
Summary of Contents for FortiGate 50R
Page 16: ...16 Fortinet Inc Customer service and technical support Introduction ...
Page 32: ...32 Fortinet Inc Next steps Getting started ...
Page 40: ...40 Fortinet Inc Completing the configuration NAT Route mode installation ...
Page 112: ...112 Fortinet Inc Customizing replacement messages System configuration ...
Page 144: ...144 Fortinet Inc Content profiles Firewall configuration ...
Page 202: ...202 Fortinet Inc Logging attacks Network Intrusion Detection System NIDS ...
Page 216: ...216 Fortinet Inc Exempt URL list Web filtering ...
Page 228: ...228 Fortinet Inc Configuring alert email Logging and reporting ...
Page 232: ...232 Fortinet Inc Glossary ...