Course Overview
This 3 day course provides an understanding of basic concepts and skills necessary to configure Check Point Security Gateway and Management Software Blades.
The goal is to learn basic concepts and develop skills necessary to administer IT security fundamental tasks.
Prerequisites
Working knowledge of Unix-like and Windows operating systems and TCP/IP Networking
Course Objectives
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- • Describe the primary components of a Check Point Three-Tier Architecture and explain how they work together in the Check Point environment.
- • Explain how communication is secured and how traffic is routed in the Check Point environment.
- • Describe the basic functions of the Gaia operating system.
- • Identify the basic workflow to install Security Management Server and Security Gateway for a single-domain solution.
- • Create SmartConsole objects that correspond to the organization's topology for use in policies and rules.
- • Identify the tools available to manage Check Point licenses and contracts, including their purpose and use.
- • Identify features and capabilities that enhance the configuration and management of the Security Policy.
- • Explain how policy layers affect traffic inspection.
- • Articulate how Network Address Translation affects traffic.
- • Describe how to configure manual and automatic Network Address Translation (NAT).
- • Demonstrate an understanding of Application Control & URL Filtering and Autonomous Threat Prevention capabilities and how to configure these solutions to meet an organization's security requirements.
- • Articulate how pre-shared keys and certificates can be configured to authenticate with third party and externally managed VPN Gateways.
- • Describe how to analyze and interpret VPN tunnel traffic.
- • Configure logging parameters.
- • Use predefined and custom queries to filter log results.
- • Identify how to monitor the health of supported Check Point hardware using the Gaia Portal and the command line.
- • Describe the different methods for backing up Check Point system information and discuss best practices and recommendations for each method
Course Content
Course Topics
- Security
- Management
- SmartConsole
- Deployment
- Object Management
- Licenses and Contracts
- Policy Rule and Rulebase
- Policy Packages
- Policy Layers
- Traffic Inspection
- Network Address Translation
- Application Control
- URL Filtering
- Logging
- Snapshots
- Backup and Restore
- Gaia
- Permissions
- Policy Installation
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