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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

Introduction to Internal Certificate Authority and Secure Internal Communication

Both Internal Certificate Authority (IAC) and Secure Internal Communication (SIC) are related to the use of certificates. Let's take a look at them in the order of dependency.

Internal Certificate Authority

When the first management server is installed (and designated as the primary during Gaia First Time configuration Wizard), an ICA is created. ICA is responsible for the issuance, renewal, and revocation of certificates to all components of your Check Point infrastructure for SIC. ICA is additionally used to generate VPN certificates to gateways and clusters used for authentication between the same VPN community members, as well as user certificates for either internally managed users or users managed on LDAP servers.

Most operations of ICA are performed in SmartConsole objects' properties using one-click operations, including certificates for internally managed users. Additionally...

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