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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
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Part 3: Introduction to Practical Administration for Achieving Common Objectives

Using the First Time Configuration Wizard

If you are working with physical Check Point appliances, you are not going to encounter the installation prompts shown in Chapter 4, Building a Check Point Lab Environment – Part 2, under the Finalizing Check Point BASE VM installation section, since those come with Gaia OS already installed. Even if you are performing a complete re-installation of the operating system on Check Point devices, the mechanism for that is different than the ISO installation. The ISO installation is relevant to the virtual environments and open servers supported by Check Point. A list of supported hardware can be found at https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/, where you can see quite a few models by multiple manufacturers, including Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Cisco, Fujitsu, and others.

To define the role of the Check Point appliance (physical, virtual, or running on OpenServer) in your environment, you must use the First Time Configuration Wizard...