Fortiguard Web Filtering Bypass New! «POPULAR — BUNDLE»

FortiGuard can see the SNI (Server Name Indication) of an HTTPS request, but without full decryption, it cannot scan the URL path or page content. A user can visit https://blocked-category[.]com but if that site uses a valid certificate and you haven’t decrypted the traffic, FortiGate may allow the connection after only checking the domain against a basic blocklist.

However, no security solution is infallible. Attackers and disgruntled employees frequently look for ways to slip past these filters. As a defender, your job isn’t just to enable the filter—it’s to understand how it can be bypassed and close those gaps.

Published by: Network Security Team Reading time: 5 minutes