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Fortinet NSE 4 - FortiOS 7.6 Administrator NSE4_FGT_AD-7.6 · Domain 3: Content inspection

SSL/SSH inspection: certificate inspection vs deep inspection, CA trust, exemptions, certificate pinning, untrusted certificate handling

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Most traffic today is encrypted with TLS, so a firewall that cannot look inside HTTPS is blind to much of what it should filter. FortiGate offers two levels of SSL inspection, and choosing between them, plus handling the certificate side effects, is the most important content-inspection concept on the exam.

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