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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

Evaluation licenses for the lab

As a User Center account holder, you may request Product Evaluation licenses. Unlike Trial licenses, these are issued for 30 days and are available for a wider range of products. Evaluation licenses are accessible from User Center | TRY OUR PRODUCTS | Product Evaluation [1].

For our lab, we are going to request ALL-IN-ONE EVALUATION instances [2] and click Next [3]. Using the drop-down menu, choose your User Center Account [4], enter the IP address of our Security Management Server [5], and, under Purpose of Evaluation, choose Security Gateway in lab environments [6]. Check the confirmation and acknowledgment of EULA checkbox [7] and click Get Evaluation [8]:

Figure A.3 – Request for product evaluation

When presented with Congratulations! Your evaluation product has been successfully added to specified UC account, click on the Back to Product Evaluation button (not shown) and repeat the process two more times.

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