Course Details
The CCSA – Check Point Certified Security Administrator (R80 – Blades 1) is a three-day instructor-led training. In this course, you will learn everything you need to start, configure and manage the daily operations of your CheckPoint Infrastructure with R80.
Today, managing security is a complex endeavour. The key to managing this complexity is through security consolidation – bringing all security protections and functions under one umbrella. With R80 management, security consolidation is fully realised.
Objectives
- Describe the key elements of Check Points unified, secure management architecture
- Interpret the concept of a firewall and understand the mechanisms used for controlling network traffic
- Recognize SmartConsole features and functions
- Understand Check Point deployment options
- Describe the basic functions of the Gaia OS
- Describe the elements of a unified security policy
- Understand how traffic inspection takes place in a unified security policy
- Summarize how administration roles and permissions assist in managing policy
- Implement Check Point backup techniques
- Recognize Check Point Security Solutions and Products and how they work to protect your network
- Understand licensing and contract requirements for Check Point security products
- Identify tools designed to monitor data, determine threats and recognize opportunities for performance improvements
- Identify tools designed to respond quickly and efficiently to changes in gateways, tunnels, remote users and traffic flow patterns or security activities
- Understand Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN deployments and VPN communities
- Understand how to analyze and interpret VPN tunnel traffic
- Recognize how to define users and user groups
- Manage user access for internal and external users
- Understand the basic concepts of ClusterXL technology and its advantages
- Understand how to perform periodic administrator tasks as specified in administrator job descriptions
Outline
- Introduction to Check Point Technology
- Security Policy Management
- Check Point Security Solutions and Licensing
- Traffic Visibility
- Basic Concepts of VPN
- Managing User Access
- Working with ClusterXL
- Administrator Task Implementation Unified Gateway
Lab Exercises
- Defining roles and users in Gaia Portal
- Installing and navigating SmartConsole
- Configuring objects, rules, and settings to define a Security Policy
- Publishing database changes
- Installing and managing a remote Security Gateway
- Performing Hide and Static Network Address Translation
- Configuring Application Control and URL filtering Access Control policy layers
- Working with multiple concurrent Administrators and testing permissions profiles
- Working with Check Point licenses
- Viewing and maintaining logs
- Configuring a Virtual Private Network
- Providing User Access
- Working with Check Point clustering
- Producing Check Point reports
Target Audience
This course is recommended for technical professionals who support, install, deploy or administer Check Point Software Blades.
Prerequisites
- General knowledge of TCP/IP
- Working knowledge of Windows and/or UNIX, network technology and the Internet