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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the variety of environments in which administrators may be called to perform troubleshooting, and some of the questions you should have answered before engaging in this activity. We looked at different types of issues, some of the tools available for troubleshooting them, and sequences of actions that can lead to their successful resolution. We also covered the process of opening a Service Request with TAC and how to engage with support engineers to achieve better outcomes. You were introduced to the resources that are available in the CheckMates community toolbox and given some tips on productive interaction. Finally, we looked at postmortems and how to derive value from lessons learned during the troubleshooting process.

This was the last chapter of this book. I have attached a short Appendix on licensing with specifics for the lab environments.

Thank you for reading and welcome to the ranks of Check Point cyber defenders!