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