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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

Introduction to SmartEvent

We were able to see how extensive Check Point logging capabilities are and how we can filter the logs to focus on traffic flows, connections, and actions. That said, there are a lot of logs being generated even by modest infrastructures. While a periodic manual log review is still a good practice for abnormal traffic detection, it is not a realistic approach for real-time reactions to security events by administrators.

If your company has implemented a SIEM and SOAR and have those configured to consume Check Point logs, generate actionable intelligence, and trigger automated responses, that is great. However, the likelihood of that happening for the majority of implementations is not very high.

In this case, the solution you are looking for is Check Point’s own SmartEvent server. Essentially, it is a native SIEM and SOAR product that is primarily focused on working with Check Point gateways and endpoint clients that is also capable of integrating...