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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

Downloading the prerequisites

In the C:\ drive of your Windows host, create a folder, CPBook. In it, create a nested folder, LabShare. Open LabShare, and create the following folders:

  • ISOs_and_OVAs: Where we will store precompiled appliances and ISO files
  • Scripts: Where we will download or create the batch files (or scripts) for the VirtualBox configuration and cloning of the virtual machines (VMs), the configuration parameters for the VyOS router, and the PowerShell commands for the Windows VMs
  • Software: Where the installation files for SmartConsole, PuTTY, WinSCP, Chrome, and Notepad++ will be located

Downloading Oracle VirtualBox and the VirtualBox extension pack

To download Oracle VirtualBox and its extension pack, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to https://www.virtualbox.org/.
  2. Click on the Download VirtualBox #.# button in the middle of the screen (where #.# represents the currently displayed version).
  3. In the Virtual Box #.#.## platform...