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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

Learning about the Check Point Gaia CLI

The default Gaia shell (CLISH) allows us to perform the same Gaia configuration tasks as the WebUI. It is intuitive, is easy to learn, and can be accessed in a number of different ways: using a Registered Jack - 45 (RJ45) serial console, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C console, or a HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) Lights Out Management (LOM) console emulator of the physical appliances; Secure Shell (SSH), from within the Gaia WebUI virtual terminal, or from Actions | Open Shell of a selected appliance within SmartConsole.

Physical console connection parameters are listed here:

  • 9600 bits per second (bps)
  • 8 bits
  • No parity
  • 1 stop bit (8N1)
  • Flow control | None

The USB Type-C connection has a higher priority, and if you are relying on the console server connected to an RJ45 port for remote administration, verify that the USB Type-C cable is disconnected.

USB Type-C console drivers should be downloaded...