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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Check Point, Network Topology, and Firewalls in Your Infrastructure and Lab
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Part 2: Introduction to Gaia, Check Point Management Interfaces, Objects, and NAT
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Part 3: Introduction to Practical Administration for Achieving Common Objectives

Creating networks and Host objects

Now is the time to add the rest of the components of our lab infrastructure to the objects database. In Chapter 7, SmartConsole – Familiarization and Navigation, we saw how to do that using the management CLI. This time around, we'll be using the UI to achieve this and to see the configuration options available in these objects' properties.

Networks

New Network, New Host, and New Network Group are available as permanent shortcuts under both the Objects menu on the top left of SmartConsole and the New button in the right-hand Objects tab. Click on Objects | New Network. In the New Network [1] window's Enter Object Name field [2], enter Net_10.0.0.0. In the Enter Object Comment field [3], enter Mgmt Network. In the IPv4 Network address field [4], enter 10.0.0.0, and in the Net mask field [5], enter 255.255.255.0. Click on the Add Tag icon [6], type management, and press Enter. The Groups option [7] allows you to add this...