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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

Using CPUSE

CPUSE refers to the Deployment Agent daemon's interfaces and policies. It allows for seamless and safe update and upgrade processes including installation of tools, hotfixes, and minor and major version upgrades for Gaia and Check Point components. The safety of upgrades is assured by the automatic creation of the snapshots that could be used to recover appliances to their previous good state.

Updates and upgrades performed either from Gaia WebUI, CLISH installer commands, or SmartConsole all rely on CPUSE for execution.

CPUSE in WebUI

In most instances, your gateways and management servers are allowed outbound connections to the following Check Point and Akamai domains:

  • .updates.checkpoint.com
  • .updates.g01.checkpoint.com
  • .gwevents.checkpoint.com
  • .gwevents.us.checkpoint.com
  • .deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com

When these conditions are met, the Deployment Agent itself is updated in the background to the latest version automatically...