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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

Configuring Gaia using CLISH

You should be reading this section after completing the First-Time Configuration using the CLI section of Chapter 5, Gaia OS, the First Time Configuration Wizard, and an Introduction to the Gaia Portal (WebUI).

The interactive session segments depicted next illustrate the CLI configuration of Gaia. I am explicitly showing it this way instead of simply listing commands to highlight the interactive aspects of some of the commands. For example, the add user command produces a warning about additional steps that are required to define the user account, and set user <username> password prompts you for a password and verification. It is also a good idea to start typing commands by hand using the Tab key for autocompletion, where appropriate, to develop a muscle memory and to increase your comfort level with CLISH.

The steps to configure Gaia for our lab using CLISH are listed here:

  1. Delete the alias interface (the one carrying the IP address...