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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

Lab topology and components

Let’s start by looking at the topology of the lab, identifying its components, and discussing the sequence in which they are going to be deployed.

Lab topology

Please note that to keep the topology diagram more readable, the IP addresses of the cluster and its members will be depicted as follows:

Figure 3.1 – Cluster IP address notation abbreviation

The following diagram (Figure 3.2) shows the lab topology, its constituent components, and their IP addresses:

Figure 3.2 – Lab topology, components, and IP addresses

LabHost is the PC on which you are about to create your lab. It does not have to be renamed, as it is used for reference only.

Since we are creating virtual networking, we will be relying on consistently named networks. The network names are shown in the following diagram:

Figure 3.3 – Topology and virtual network segments

Lab components...