You're reading from Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10+ A practical guide to Check Point firewall deployment and administration

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072717

Length 654 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Vladimir Yakovlev

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

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

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Check Point Firewalls and Threat Prevention Products FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Common Deployment Scenarios and Network Segmentation

4. Chapter 3: Building a Check Point Lab Environment – Part 1

5. Chapter 4: Building a Check Point Lab Environment – Part 2

6. Part 2: Introduction to Gaia, Check Point Management Interfaces, Objects, and NAT

7. Chapter 5: Gaia OS, the First Time Configuration Wizard, and an Introduction to the Gaia Portal (WebUI)

8. Chapter 6: Check Point Gaia Command-Line Interface; Backup and Recovery Methods; CPUSE

9. Chapter 7: SmartConsole – Familiarization and Navigation

10. Chapter 8: Introduction to Policies, Layers, and Rules

11. Chapter 9: Working with Objects – ICA, SIC, Managed, Static, and Variable Objects

12. Chapter 10: Working with Network Address Translation

13. Part 3: Introduction to Practical Administration for Achieving Common Objectives

14. Chapter 11: Building Your First Policy

15. Chapter 12: Configuring Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPNs

16. Chapter 13: Introduction to Logging and SmartEvent

17. Chapter 14: Working with ClusterXL High Availability

18. Chapter 15: Performing Basic Troubleshooting

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Appendix: Licensing

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need a PC with at least 4 CPU cores, 24 to 32 GB of RAM, 200 GB of HDD space (preferably SSD), and a monitor with at least a 1,024 x 768 resolution (1,920 x 1,080 is preferable) running Windows 10. References to the software used in the lab are provided in later sections. You will also need Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge as a browser and an SSH terminal emulator.

Oracle VirtualBox has been chosen because it is free for personal use, can run on either Windows, Linux, or macOS, and is a capable platform. My personal production labs are built on VMware products, but those could either be expensive or require dedicated hardware. The LabHost could be running either Windows or any OS supported by Oracle VirtualBox as a host operating system. A full list of compatible host operating systems can be found here:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/user/hostossupport.html.

Important Note

If you are experienced...