Essential Check Point Firewall 1

The insider's guide on how to build, implement, and maintain Checkpoint Firewall 1, the number one bestselling firewall in the world. This book covers all the essentials of the product and step-by-step configuration instructions for many of the features people use most.

"When it comes to security products and technologies, experience is far and away the best teacher. PhoneBoy has been installing, running, and supporting Check Point FireWall-1 for years, and his experience shows in this book. Save yourself the pain of learning from your own mistakes--let PhoneBoy show you the right way to manage your FireWall-1 NG infrastructure." --Tina Bird, Computer Security Officer, Stanford University "Dameon has taken his original definitive guide and updated it thoroughly for NG. No other book is informed by his depth of experience with Check Point. Accept no substitutes!" --Matthew Gast, author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide "PhoneBoy is the de facto expert on this product, and people have been clamoring for an NG book from him since he published the first one. No one can compete with him." --Valerie M. Leveille, Professional Educator "Dameon is the foremost authority on FireWall-1. He has the knowledge to give details of FireWall-1 functionality that no other reference on this topic can." --Paul Keser, Senior Network Security Engineer, Raytheon ITSS/NASA Ames Research Center "This book is the Swiss army knife solution for Check Point FireWall-1 NG." --Thomas Warfield, TNT-OK.com Now there's a definitive insider's guide to planning, installing, configuring, and maintaining the newest version of the world's #1 firewall: Check Point(tm) FireWall-1� Next Generation(tm). Leading Check Point support authority Dameon Welch-Abernathy (a.k.a. PhoneBoy) offers exclusive hands-on tips, techniques, checklists, and detailed sample configurations you can use right now to improve reliability, efficiency, and manageability in your Check Point environment. The author's previous Check Point FireWall-1 guide became an instant bestseller, earning the praise of security professionals worldwide. This new book has been thoroughly revamped to reflect Check Point FireWall-1 NG's powerful new features, and it includes even more expert solutions from PhoneBoy's FireWall-1 FAQ, the Web's #1 independent Check Point support site. Whether you're a security/network architect, administrator, or manager, you'll find it indispensable. Whether you're running FireWall-1 NG on UNIX or Windows platforms, this book brings together expert guidance for virtually every challenge you'll face: building your rulebase, logging and alerting, remote management, user authentication, inbound/outbound content restriction, managing NAT environments, building site-to-site VPNs with SecuRemote, even INSPECT programming. Welch-Abernathy also covers high availability in detail, identifying proven solutions for the challenges of implementing multiple firewalls in parallel. 0321180615B12192003

http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com Typical causes of performance-related issues on Check Point (R) firewalls are explored in this book through a process of discovery, analysis, and remediation. This Third Edition has been fully updated for version R80.30 and Gaia kernel 3.10. You will learn about: Common OSI Layer 1-3 Performance Issues Gaia OS Optimization ClusterXL Health Assessment CoreXL & SecureXL Tuning Access Control Policy Optimization IPSec VPN Performance Enhancement Threat Prevention Policy Optimization Active Streaming & HTTPS Inspection Elephant Flows/Heavy Connections & DoS Attack Mitigation Diagnosing Intermittent Performance Issues Setting Up Proactive Performance-related Alerting Includes an index of all commands referenced throughout the text. This book has everything you need to get the most out of your R80.30+ firewall with Gaia kernel 3.10.

Improve your organization's security posture by performing routine administration tasks flawlessly Key FeaturesGet a gradual and practical introduction to Check Point firewallsAcquire the knowledge and skills necessary for effective firewall administration, maintenance, and troubleshootingCreate and operate a lab environment with gradually increasing complexity to practice firewall administration skillsBook Description Check Point firewalls are the premiere firewalls, access control, and threat prevention appliances for physical and virtual infrastructures. With Check Point's superior security, administrators can help maintain confidentiality, integrity, and the availability of their resources protected by firewalls and threat prevention devices. This hands-on guide covers everything you need to be fluent in using Check Point firewalls for your operations. This book familiarizes you with Check Point firewalls and their most common implementation scenarios, showing you how to deploy them from scratch. You will begin by following the deployment and configuration of Check Point products and advance to their administration for an organization. Once you've learned how to plan, prepare, and implement Check Point infrastructure components and grasped the fundamental principles of their operation, you'll be guided through the creation and modification of access control policies of increasing complexity, as well as the inclusion of additional features. To run your routine operations infallibly, you'll also learn how to monitor security logs and dashboards. Generating reports detailing current or historical traffic patterns and security incidents is also covered. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge necessary to implement and comfortably operate Check Point firewalls. What you will learnUnderstand various Check Point implementation scenarios in different infrastructure topologiesPerform initial installation and configuration tasks using Web UI and the CLICreate objects of different categories and typesConfigure different NAT optionsWork with access control policies and rulesUse identity awareness to create highly granular rulesOperate high-availability clustersWho this book is for Whether you're new to Check Point firewalls or looking to catch up with the latest R81.10++ releases, this book is for you. Although intended for information/cybersecurity professionals with some experience in network or IT infrastructure security, IT professionals looking to shift their career focus to cybersecurity will also find this firewall book useful. Familiarity with Linux and bash scripting is a plus.

Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. The company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture provides the infrastructure that enables secure and reliable Internet communications. Check Point recently announced a ground-breaking user interface that meets the industry's next generation Internet security requirements, including simplified security management for increasingly complex environments. Built upon Check Point's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture, the Next Generation User Interface revolutionizes the way security administrators define and manage enterprise security by further integrating management functions into a security dashboard and creating a visual picture of security operations. The Next Generation User Interface delivers unparalleled ease-of-use, improved security and true end-to-end security management. Check Point's revenues have more than doubled in each of the last two years, while capturing over 50% of the VPN market and over 40% of the firewall market according to IDC Research. The explosive growth of the company is further evidenced by over 29,000 IT professionals becoming Check Point Certified so far. This book will be the complimentary to Syngress' best-selling Check Point Next Generation Security Administration, which was a foundation-level guide to installing and configuring Check Point NG. This book will assume that readers have already mastered the basic functions of the product and they now want to master the more advanced security and VPN features of the product. Written by a team of Check Point Certified Instructors (the most prestigious Check Point certification) this book will provide readers with a complete reference book to Check Point NG and advanced case studies that illustrate the most difficult to implement configurations. Although not a Study Guide, this book will cover all of the objectives on Check Point's CCSE Exam. · The reader will learn to design and configure a Virtual Private Network (VPN). · The reader will learn to configure Check Point NG for High Availability (HA), which is the ability of a system to perform its function continuously (without interruption) for a significantly longer period of time than the reliabilities of its individual components would suggest. · The reader will learn to use SeucureUpdate, which allows them to perform simultaneous, secure, enterprise-wide software updates.

http://www.maxpowerfirewalls.com"Bottom line: If you maintain Check Point Security Gateways, you need this book." --Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy, Author, Essential Check Point Firewall-1 NG"Tim has assembled an amazing wealth of knowledge into a readable, understandable book that should be in the toolkit of ALL Check Point engineers." --Eric Anderson CCSM, CCSI, and operator of cpug.orgFeaturing a Foreword by Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy (a.k.a. PhoneBoy)Finally a book to help you get the maximum performance from your Check Point Firewall! This book takes you through discovery, analysis, and remediation of common performance issues on Check Point firewalls. You will learn about:- Frequent OSI Layer 1-3 Network Issues and How to Fix Them- The Dreaded RX "Dark Triad" Network Counters- How to Troubleshoot Intermittent Performance Issues- CoreXL Tuning & Recommendations- IPS Performance Tuning- SecureXL Throughput Acceleration Tuning- SecureXL Session Rate Acceleration Tuning- Multi-Queue & Hyperspect - Manual AffinitiesIncludes a task-based index that lists all CLI commands utilized throughout the text. This book has everything you need to get the most out of your Check Point firewall.

Here's the book you need to prepare for Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 Management II NG exam, 156-310. Written by two Check Point security experts who know exactly what it takes to pass the test, this Study Guide provides: Assessment testing to focus and direct your studies In-depth coverage of official exam objectives Hundreds of challenging practice questions, in the book and on the CD Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including: Installing and configuring VPN-1/FireWall-1 Gateway Administering post-installation procedures Configuring user tracking Using the VPN-1 SecureClient packaging tool Configuring an HTTP, CVP, and TCP security server Setting up a logical server for load balancing of HTTP traffic Configuring and testing VPN-1 SecuRemote and VPN-1 SecureClient Setting up VPN desktop policies and use Security Configuration Verification Enabling Java blocking, URL filtering and anti-virus checking Establishing trust relationships with digital certificates Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1 is the next major release of Check Point's flagship firewall software product, which has over 750,000 registered users. The most significant changes to this release are in the areas of Route Based VPN, Directional VPN, Link Selection & Tunnel Management, Multiple Entry Points, Route Injection Mechanism, Wire Mode, and SecurePlatform Pro. Many of the new features focus on how to configure and manage Dynamic Routing rules, which are essential to keeping an enterprise network both available *and* secure. Demand for this book will be strong because Check Point is requiring all of its 3rd party developers to certify their products for this release. * Packed full with extensive coverage of features new to the product, allowing 3rd party partners to certify NGX add-on products quickly * Protect your network from both internal and external threats and learn to recognize future threats * All yuou need to securly and efficiently deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain Check Point NXG