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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Check Point, Network Topology, and Firewalls in Your Infrastructure and Lab
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Part 2: Introduction to Gaia, Check Point Management Interfaces, Objects, and NAT
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Part 3: Introduction to Practical Administration for Achieving Common Objectives

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need a PC with at least 4 CPU cores, 24 to 32 GB of RAM, 200 GB of HDD space (preferably SSD), and a monitor with at least a 1,024 x 768 resolution (1,920 x 1,080 is preferable) running Windows 10. References to the software used in the lab are provided in later sections. You will also need Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge as a browser and an SSH terminal emulator.

Oracle VirtualBox has been chosen because it is free for personal use, can run on either Windows, Linux, or macOS, and is a capable platform. My personal production labs are built on VMware products, but those could either be expensive or require dedicated hardware. The LabHost could be running either Windows or any OS supported by Oracle VirtualBox as a host operating system. A full list of compatible host operating systems can be found here:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/user/hostossupport.html.

Important Note

If you are experienced...