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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

Troubleshooting constraints and your actions

As a Check Point administrator, who are you? Were you hired by a company with established Check Point infrastructure, to join a team of experts handling it? Or are you a wearer of many hats who is looking to implement and manage Check Point gateways in addition to handling several other security products and, perhaps, the rest of the IT infrastructure? Or is your role somewhere in-between these two scenarios?

If you are working in a highly structured environment, your role and responsibilities will be clearly articulated, and you will likely go through an internal training period before being entrusted with day-to-day administration, let alone troubleshooting responsibilities. If the company you are at is better described by the second scenario, then ready or not, you are a de facto engineer and troubleshooter. If the place you are working at is somewhere in between these two categories, things may get complicated. Read on to better orient...