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

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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

Creating a Check Point base VM

We are going to have two different types of Check Point VMs in our environment: the Security Management Server (SMS) and the gateways (CPCM1 and CPCM2 in a High Availability (HA) cluster and CPGW as a single gateway), but in the interest of saving time, we will be using the same base VM for all of them.

Note

Keep in mind that the actual hardware (or virtual hardware requirements) for Check Point gateways and servers are quite higher than the values we are using in the lab. These could be found at https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R81.10/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R81.10_RN/Topics-RN/Hardware-Requirements.htm?tocpath=Open%20Server%20Hardware%20Requirements%7C_____1#Minimal_Hardware_Requirements. If space is not an issue in your lab environment, for HDD, allocate 80 GB and leave the partition sizes at suggested default values, when prompted. Otherwise, use the values specified in the following steps.

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