Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10

Get hands-on with Check Point Cybersecurity products and learn how to set up your organization's cyber safety net with minimal day-to-day admin

Key Features

• Gain the knowledge and confidence in managing Check Point Firewalls and Threat Prevention solutions.
• Install, configure, deploy in production and administer Check Point Firewalls and Threat Prevention solutions on premises.
• Comprehensive and compact guide and reference for real-life administration tasks.

Book Description

Implementing Check Point Firewall Solutions will give you all the knowledge and confidence in managing Check Point Firewalls and Threat Prevention solutions.

You will learn how to plan, prepare and implement Check Point in common environments. Understand the fundamental principles of its operation. Implement access control and threat prevention policies. Monitor security logs and dashboards and generate reports detailing current or historical traffic patterns and security incidents.

By the end of this book, you will gain confidence in performing routine Check Point administrative tasks, have better ideas of typical issues that arise in production environments and the means to address those.

What you will learn

• Know about Check Point Firewalls and Threat Prevention products
• Common deployment scenarios in an on-premises environments
• Common GAIA configuration tasks using WebUI and CLI, First Time configuration Wizard, SIC, Initial Check Point configuration parameters
• License and Contract management through CLI, SmartConsole and SmartUpdate
• Explore SmartConsole and SmartView familiarization and navigation, Licensing methods and reporting
• Introduction to Security Policy, Implied Rules and Layers

Who This Book Is For

Security administrators and engineers new to Check Point who must quickly ramp up their skills. Technical decision makers looking to select firewall and threat prevention solutions for their organization. Knowledge of general networking principles, prior administration of switches, routers proxies or firewalls from other vendors is required

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Check Point Firewalls and Threat Prevention products
2. Common Deployment Scenarios and Network Segmentation
3. Building Check Point Lab Environment - Part 1
4. Building Check Point Lab environment, Part 2
5. Gaia OS, First-Time Configuration Wizard, and Introduction to Gaia Portal (WebUI)
6. Check Point Gaia Command Line Interface, Backup and Recovery Methods, CPUSE
7. SmartConsole - Familiarization and Navigation
8. Introduction to Policies, Layers, and Rules
9. Network Address Translation
10. User Management and Authentication, Identity Awareness and Access Roles
11. Site-to-site and Remote Access VPNs
12. Logging in a single security domain
13. SmartEvent: Monitoring, Reporting and Automation
14. High Availability for Management and Gateways; Introduction to scalable solutions
15. Basic troubleshooting