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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

Defining the access control policy structure

From Chapter 8, Introduction to Policies, Layers, and Rules, you might recall the requirement to have three rules present in the policy to ensure that you can access gateways via SSH and WebUI, drop any unsanctioned connections to the gateways as early as possible, and drop/log all other unsanctioned traffic.

With this in mind, let’s create section titles and include these rules from the start. For now, ignore the rule numbers depicted in the No. column of the following screenshot. These will eventually align when the rest of your rules have been created:

Figure 11.1 – Defining a policy structure using section titles and mandatory rules

While naming the section titles, you might optionally include action and tracking notes in some of them, as shown in the preceding screenshot.

With our policy structure defined, let’s go from the top-down, learning the purpose of each section and, when necessary...