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

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Licensing

Automatic NAT

Automatic NAT is configured in the properties of objects. Each time NAT is defined in the properties of a gateway/cluster, management server, host, network, or range, several rules for each object are automatically created in the corresponding Automatic Generated Rules sections.

We should bear in mind that since we are working in a single security domain with the common objects database, once NAT has been configured for an object, the corresponding automatic rules will be identical in all the policy packages we might create.

Automatic static NAT

Static NAT refers to the consistent translation of hosts’ original IP addresses into specific addresses. Let’s take a look at a few example implementations next.

One-to-one

Automatic static NAT is defined in a host object and performs one-to-one NAT, translating the actual IP address of the object into the address we would like it to be accessible by from the networks behind different interface(s...