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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Check Point, Network Topology, and Firewalls in Your Infrastructure and Lab
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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

Chapter 7: SmartConsole – Familiarization and Navigation

In this chapter, we will learn about the SmartConsole application, your primary interface for the daily administration of Check Point infrastructure components. While it may seem complex on the surface, this application, as you start working with it, will reveal its UI logic to be intuitive and accommodating. By learning to identify its various elements, you will develop a sense of how a variety of tasks could be accomplished in a number of different ways.

This chapter will follow the structure of the interface from the outside in, describing its integral components, and following the expanded views and panes, contextual action menus, search and filtering capabilities, as well as many other elements.

Learning how to take advantage of SmartConsole's capabilities will not simply make you proficient with the product but will make your experience of working with it a joy.

In this chapter, we are going to cover...