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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

Offline configuration editing and comparison

There are some situations where it makes sense to perform editing and/or compare the configuration of Gaia offline. One of the reasons for this is to ensure consistency of the organization-wide configuration parameters, such as Domain Name Server (DNS), Network Time Protocol (NTP), roles, and users. The other is a consistent definition of the clusters' topologies and routing settings.

You may, for instance, save the configuration of a single cluster member, download it, open it in the text editor, and perform a search and replace for the IPs of the interfaces and hostnames, replace host entries, save the file under a new cluster member's name, upload it to the new cluster member, and load the configuration.

Another case is the migration of a Gaia configuration to a new appliance with a different topology. For example, if you are moving to a more powerful appliance to handle the increased throughput using 10, 40, or 100 Gigabit...