V-234196
Fortinet FortiGate Firewall NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Title
The FortiGate device must support organizational requirements to conduct backups of information system documentation, including security-related documentation, when changes occur or weekly, whichever is sooner.
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Information system backup is a critical step in maintaining data assurance and availability. Information system and security-related documentation contains information pertaining to system configuration and security settings. If this information was not backed up, and a system failure occurred, the security settings would be difficult to reconfigure quickly and accurately. Maintaining a backup of information system and security-related documentation provides for a quicker recover...
Fix Text (Documentation Requirement)
Log in to the FortiGate GUI with Super-Admin privilege. 1. Open a CLI console, via SSH or available from the GUI. 2. Run the following command: # config system global # set revision-backup-on-logout enable # end 3. Integrate FortiGate with FortiManager or the organization’s central backup server using SSH to pull saved backups.