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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

Logs, tracking depth, and oddities

Tracking for Access Control rules should be configured on a per-rule basis. Either right-click in the Track field of the rule or hover over it with your mouse and click on the drop-down arrow in its top-right corner [1]. The small drop-down box gives you the ability to set some of the options using a one-click operation.

Clicking on More [2] opens a more extensive Track Settings dialog box where, in addition to the same options as above, you can choose the logging level (for rules in layers with APCL/URLF enabled) [3], set Alert [4], choose the Accounting option [5], and select whether Log Generation is set per Connection [6] or per Session [7]:

Figure 8.42 – Track Settings configuration

Note that the Detailed Log and Extended Log options are available only in rules located in layers with either APCL/URLF, Content Awareness, or Mobile Access blades enabled.

When either Detailed Log or Extended Log are selected...