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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

Chapter 11: Building Your First Policy

We have learned a lot over the course of the previous chapters. Now, it’s time to put that knowledge to the test and construct our first fully functional access control policy.

We’ll be following the process of defining a policy structure, trying to account for the most common scenarios likely to be encountered in any infrastructure. Once that is done, we’ll proceed with the creation of the rules and, when necessary, additional objects. As we progress, we’ll be periodically testing the behavior of our policy to ascertain that it is performing as intended.

Additionally, we will gradually expand its capabilities with HTTPS Inspection, application control, URL filtering, and Identity Awareness to experience and gain an understanding of most aspects of policy building.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Defining the access control policy structure
  • Creating rules for the...