COURSE TOPICS

• Advanced and in-depth explanation of

Check Point firewall technology

• Key tips and techniques for troubleshooting

Check Point firewall technology

• Advanced upgrading concepts

and practices

• Clustering firewall, management

concepts and practices

• Software acceleration features

• Advanced VPN concepts

and implementations

• Reporting tools, deployment options

and features

COURSE OBJECTIVES INCLUDE

• Perform a backup of a Security Gateway

and Management Server using your

understanding of the differences

between backups, snapshots and

update-exports

• Upgrade and troubleshoot a Management

Server using a database migration

• Upgrade and troubleshoot a clustered

Security Gateway deployment

• Use knowledge of Security Gateway

infrastructures, chain modules, packet

flow and kernel tables to perform debugs

on firewall processes

• Build, test and troubleshoot a ClusterXL

Load Sharing deployment on an

enterprise network

• Build, test and troubleshoot a ClusterXL

High Availability deployment on an

enterprise network

• Build, test and troubleshoot a

management HA deployment on an

enterprise network

• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot

SecureXL and CoreXL acceleration

solutions on the corporate network traffic to

ensure noted performance enhancement

• Using an external user database such as

LDAP, configure User Directory to

incorporate user information for

authentication services on the network

• Manage internal and external user

access to resources for Remote Access

or across a VPN

• Troubleshoot user access issues found

when implementing Identity Awareness

• Troubleshoot a site-to-site or certificatebased

VPN on a corporate gateway

using IKE View, VPN log files and

command-line debug tools

• Optimize VPN performance and

availability by using Link Selection and

Multiple Entry Point solutions

• Manage and test corporate VPN tunnels to

allow for greater monitoring and scalability

with multiple tunnels defined in a

community including other VPN providers

• Create events or use existing event

definitions to generate reports on

specific network traffic using

SmartReporter and SmartEvent to

provide industry compliance information

to management

• Troubleshoot report generation

given command-line tools and debugfile

information

LAB EXERCISES INCLUDE

• Upgrade to Check Point R77

• Core CLI elements of firewall administration

• Migrate to a clustering solution

• Configure SmartDashboard to interface

with Active Directory

• Configure site-to-site VPNS with

third-party certificates

• Remote access with Endpoint Security VPN

• SmartEvent and SmartReporter