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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

Chapter 1: Introduction to Check Point Firewalls and Threat Prevention Products

In this chapter, we will learn about the past and the present of Check Point Software Technologies in the context of evolving cybersecurity challenges. We will become familiar with the three main product lines, their components, and their relevance to the threat prevention capabilities of Check Point firewalls. We will examine the flexibility and advantages of security management architecture, address the learning process, and go through the user and account creation process in preparation for the following chapters.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Learning about Check Point's history and the current state of the technology
  • Understanding the Check Point product lineup and coverage
  • Introducing the Unified Management concepts and the advantages of security product consolidation
  • Familiarization with the Security Management Architecture (SMART)
  • Determining how we learn
  • Navigating the Check Point User Center