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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
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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

Community resources and engagements

I’ll start this section with a brief trip down memory lane. Established in 2017, the Check Point user community known as CheckMates was slowly gaining traction. One of the people responsible for its development, Check Point Chief Evangelist, self-proclaimed and universally acknowledged geek, Moti Sagey, started a thread called My Top3 Check Point CLI commands. It tells you something about the community when it became the most visited place with a huge number of responses. Some comments were simple lists, while others expanded on their choices. A smaller number of users were posting scripts by using basic Check Point commands but extended their capabilities by adding formatting and interactivity (referred to as “one-liners”). By page 4, “one-liners” were becoming wrapped into three or four lines. Of course, things got out of hand and some became “one-pagers.” To get an idea about the size and complexity...