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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

An introduction to site-to-site VPN capabilities

Check Point site-to-site VPN topologies are defined in VPN Communities objects and can be a mesh, a star (hub and spoke), or a combination of the two.

Meshed VPN communities are used to interconnect equally important locations. In a mesh, all members have tunnels established between each pair of gateways.

Star, or hub-and-spoke, communities are used for branches or satellite offices connected to central locations. Star VPN communities can be used in one of three modes:

Split tunnel, with local internet egress and a VPN connection to the networks behind the hub
The same, but with access to other spokes’ networks
All traffic routed through the hub

Multiple Entry Point (MEP) configuration options are available to connect spokes to one of several hub gateways using a variety of preference methods, based on the hubs’ availability. A hub’s availability is continually assessed using a proprietary...

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