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Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10+

By : Vladimir Yakovlev
Book Image

Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10+

By: Vladimir Yakovlev

Overview of this book

Check Point firewalls are the premiere firewalls, access control, and threat prevention appliances for physical and virtual infrastructures. With Check Point’s superior security, administrators can help maintain confidentiality, integrity, and the availability of their resources protected by firewalls and threat prevention devices. This hands-on guide covers everything you need to be fluent in using Check Point firewalls for your operations. This book familiarizes you with Check Point firewalls and their most common implementation scenarios, showing you how to deploy them from scratch. You will begin by following the deployment and configuration of Check Point products and advance to their administration for an organization. Once you’ve learned how to plan, prepare, and implement Check Point infrastructure components and grasped the fundamental principles of their operation, you’ll be guided through the creation and modification of access control policies of increasing complexity, as well as the inclusion of additional features. To run your routine operations infallibly, you’ll also learn how to monitor security logs and dashboards. Generating reports detailing current or historical traffic patterns and security incidents is also covered. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge necessary to implement and comfortably operate Check Point firewalls.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Check Point, Network Topology, and Firewalls in Your Infrastructure and Lab
6
Part 2: Introduction to Gaia, Check Point Management Interfaces, Objects, and NAT
13
Part 3: Introduction to Practical Administration for Achieving Common Objectives

Access Control policies, layers, and rules

In the previous chapters, we learned how to navigate SmartConsole. Now, let's take a look at Access Control policies, layers, and rules.

Policies

Policies comprise layers containing rules. The basic Access Control policy is, itself, a single layer.

If a policy consists of more than one layer, you may think of the top layer as a collection of coarse filters and subsequent layers as finer filters.

Policies can be organized into policy (or ordered) layers and/or inline layers.

Access Control policies comprise layers with select features. Using Menu | Manage policies and layers… [1], policies [2] can be created [3] or, through the Actions menu [4], cloned [5], and the resultant clones renamed:

Figure 8.1 – Policy and layer management, creating or cloning policies

Cloning is convenient if the redesign of the security policy is required. Using cloned policies allows for a fast fallback by...