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Transparent mode
Transparent mode provides the same basic firewall protection as NAT mode. Packets received by the FortiGate unit are intelligently forwarded or blocked according to firewall policies. The FortiGate unit can be inserted in your network at any point without the need to make changes to your network or any of its components. However, VPN, VLAN,
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Network intrusion detection
The FortiGate Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is a
NIDS prevention detects and prevents many common denial of service and packet- based attacks. You can enable and disable prevention attack signatures and customize attack signature thresholds and other parameters.
To notify system administrators of the attack, the NIDS records the attack and any suspicious traffic to the attack log and can be configured to send alert emails.
Fortinet updates NIDS attack definitions periodically. You can download and install updated attack definitions manually, or you can configure the FortiGate to automatically check for and download attack definition updates.
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