Fortinet Server Authentication Extension 3.5

Fortinet Server Authentication Extension (FSAE) is Fortinet’s legacy identity-awareness agent, now commonly referred to as Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO). It links your Windows Active Directory environment with Fortinet security appliances so you can enforce identity-based policies without repeatedly prompting users to authenticate. By monitoring logon events and mapping usernames and groups to IP addresses in near real time, it gives FortiGate, FortiProxy, and related products reliable user visibility for access control, web filtering, and auditing.

Key capabilities include:

• Real-time user-to-IP mapping from Active Directory to enable identity-based firewall and proxy policies
• Group-based policy enforcement for web filtering, application control, and bandwidth management
• Support for multi-user hosts via a Terminal Services/Citrix agent
• Scalable architecture using a Collector Agent and optional Domain Controller agents for larger or distributed domains
• Improved logging and reporting with usernames attached to traffic records for compliance and investigations
• Minimal disruption to end users by leveraging existing AD credentials for single sign-on

Typical deployment places the Collector Agent on a Windows server (often a domain member) and, optionally, lightweight agents on domain controllers. The result is streamlined administration, fewer authentication prompts, and consistent security controls that follow users across the network.

Fortinet Server Authentication Extension is developed by Fortinet Inc.. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 3.0 and 3.5. The names of program executable files are uninstalldcagent.exe, FSAEConfig.exe and installdcagent.exe.