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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
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Part 3: Introduction to Practical Administration for Achieving Common Objectives

Configuring a remote access IPSec VPN

Before we begin working on the remote access IPSec VPN, let’s clear out the Branches VPN community: open the VPN community called Branches, and remove CPCXL from Center Gateways and CPGW from Satellite Gateways. Click OK to close this VPN community. Publish the changes and install both policies, LeftSide_S2S and RightSide.

Cloning a policy

Let’s create a clone of our LeftSide_S2S policy, in case you want to experiment with it later:

  1. Click on the main menu (in the top-left corner of SmartConsole) | Manage policies and layers. Click on the LeftSide_S2S policy, Actions, and then Clone.
  2. In the Clone Object dialog, type in LeftSide_RA (for remote access) and click OK.
  3. A new policy tab called LeftSide_RA is now opened.
  4. Close the LeftSide_S2S policy tab.

Creating local user templates, groups, users, and access roles

Let’s configure local user templates, groups, and users. When local user groups...