Fortiguard.Search

Description

This indicates an attempt to access the Fortinet FortiGuard FDS servers.
The FortiGuard FDS servers enable FortiGate, FortiWiFi appliances and FortiClient end point security agents to make Web Filtering and Anti Spam search requests.

Affected Products

FortiGuard

Impact

Network bandwidth consumption

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Reasonable
• Cloud

Default Ports

• TCP/80
• TCP/443
• TCP/8888
• UDP/53
• UDP/8888

References

• http://www.fortiguard.com/webfiltering/webfiltering.html