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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

An introduction to site-to-site VPN capabilities

Check Point site-to-site VPN topologies are defined in VPN Communities objects and can be a mesh, a star (hub and spoke), or a combination of the two.

Meshed VPN communities are used to interconnect equally important locations. In a mesh, all members have tunnels established between each pair of gateways.

Star, or hub-and-spoke, communities are used for branches or satellite offices connected to central locations. Star VPN communities can be used in one of three modes:

  • Split tunnel, with local internet egress and a VPN connection to the networks behind the hub
  • The same, but with access to other spokes’ networks
  • All traffic routed through the hub

Multiple Entry Point (MEP) configuration options are available to connect spokes to one of several hub gateways using a variety of preference methods, based on the hubs’ availability. A hub’s availability is continually assessed using a proprietary...