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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

Sizing appliances for new implementations and determining load on current systems

If you are in a planning phase for the implementation of Check Point firewalls in your infrastructure, you must determine (with some accuracy) the capacity of the appliances that must satisfy your requirements.

A firewall lifespan in a typical infrastructure is between five and seven years and, because of projected growth in data traffic, it is recommended to choose the appliances at around 35% current estimated load utilization.

If you are simply replacing an existing solution from a different vendor, you may have the necessary data available in its performance reports. If they are not locally available, it is possible that this data is collected by the vendor through telemetry, and you can ask their technical support to provide it.

If you are planning to use a Check Point firewall or cluster as a common internet edge gateway, you may be able to obtain historical utilization data from your internet...