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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

Typical issues and the tools to solve them

There are typical categories of issues and tools that you can use to resolve them. When troubleshooting, you can do yourself no larger favor than to accurately describe the problem that you are trying to tackle, either on your own or when opening a Service Request (SR) with Technical Assistance Center (TAC). The following table shows how you may categorize reported issues when beginning your troubleshooting process:

Table 15.1 – Troubleshooting issue categorization

Let’s go over what each cell refers to:

  • Anticipated issues refer to any changes in product configuration, objects, policy, or overall infrastructure that you were aware of, correlated in time with the issue’s manifestation.
  • Unanticipated issues are those that appear seemingly without reason in an otherwise perfectly stable environment, with no one reporting (or admitting) that changes were introduced.
  • Intermittent issues...