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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

Licensing

The terminology Check Point uses for licensing is a bit weird, but that’s because it was using the term “containers” way before its virtualization namesake existed. The same goes for the term “blade,” which originally referred to pluggable modular servers dedicated to running specific applications.

Both terms seem a bit outdated since, with the resurgence of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), there are now chassis of blades. These are provisioned as universal resource nodes and are often used to run container hosts which, in turn, running containers rather than being function-specific. This is the exact opposite of the terminology that’s used by Check Point and is a source of increasing consternation among younger technologists not familiar with the terms’ historical connotations.

Containers and blades

Containers are defined by their size and the types of blades they can contain.

There are three types of software...