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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

Understanding your network topology

As a firewall administrator, you must have a thorough understanding of the network in which these firewalls are implemented. The firewall can only control and inspect the traffic that is traversing it.

This brings us to a question about your role as the firewall administrator. Depending on the size of the company you are working for, the maturity of its security practices, its budget, and the size of your security team, your responsibilities may vary greatly.

In a typical large financial organization, there may be dedicated positions for firewall administrators that are limited to the creation and modification of objects, rules, security policies, and troubleshooting. Actual engineering and implementation may be handled by a different team or team member.

In smaller organizations, firewall administration is just one of the functions you are likely to perform, and there are several other security controls you may be responsible for. Networking...