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Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10+

By : Vladimir Yakovlev
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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

To get the most out of this book

You will need a Windows 10 or 11 PC with 24-32 GB of RAM and approximately 200 GB of free disk space to replicate the VirtualBox lab environment described in the book. If you are experienced in and prefer to use different virtualization platforms, adapt virtual hardware and networking requirements for the lab to a platform of your choice. All software required for the labs is available in free, trial, or evaluation versions. You will be required to register on some of the vendors’ portals for access to their products.

Additional software includes VirtualBox, PuTTY, WinSCP, and Notepad++ and you’ll be instructed to install them on relevant physical or virtual hosts throughout the book.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

If you are using the digital version of this book, I suggest viewing it in two-page, side-by-side format. This will make it easier to process text referencing screenshots, commands, or code on adjacent pages. Alternatively, download the PDF with figures, referenced later in this document, and use it to look up information referenced in the text.