Introduction to the SmartConsole application and Demo Mode

The SmartConsole application has a feature-rich graphical interface where most of the administration magic happens. This is where objects and policies are created, logs and events are viewed and analyzed, reports are generated, and components of your Check Point infrastructure are monitored.

When developing SmartConsole, Check Point conducted a study among security administrators of market-leading products in its category to determine how much time and how many steps are required to execute the most common security management tasks. Their developers then worked on systematically reducing complexity and streamlining these operations so that you can perform them in a fraction of the time. The resultant product is a management interface like no other and, while it was considered a gold standard in enterprise firewall administration in its earlier iterations, the R80+ versions have taken it to a whole new level.

To accommodate...