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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

Learning about network segmentation

Today, most of the environments where Check Point firewalls are found are fairly sophisticated and, generally, consist of one or more data centers (or server rooms) that may contain a mix of physical and virtual servers, container hosts, switching and routing equipment, and a dedicated storage area network (SAN). It may also include a hyperconverged infrastructure where a part of the network, compute, memory, and storage are virtualized and distributed between nodes.

These environments are often a part of hybrid cloud implementations. Access to a public cloud or multiple clouds is achieved either by VPNs or by direct connectivity to cloud service providers (for example, AWS Direct Access, Azure Express Route, and so on).

Some firms are using public cloud segments of their hybrid infrastructure for elastic computational capabilities while keeping them locked down. Others are using the cloud to host their public-facing applications. Yet, others...