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Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10+

By : Vladimir Yakovlev
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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 Check Point remote access VPN solutions

Check Point has a rather large number of options for remote access. Some of them focus strictly on connectivity; others include further options for client security and compliance. You can read about most of the available options here: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R81/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R81_RemoteAccessVPN_AdminGuide/Topics-VPNRG/Remote-Access-Solutions.htm.

In addition to those listed in the Remote Access VPN R81 Administration Guide, there are a few more options: Harmony Endpoint, a complete EDR with an IPSec VPN (read more about it here: https://www.checkpoint.com/harmony/advanced-endpoint-protection/), as well as Harmony Connect, a browser-based, clientless, zero-trust application and network-secure remote access – a VPN as a service that you can host in your own infrastructure (read more about it here: https://www.checkpoint.com/harmony/connect-sase/).

Since our goal, for now, is simply to implement...