Course Description

Check Point Security Administrator provides an understanding of the basic concepts and skills necessary to configure Check Point Security Gateway and Management Software Blades. During this course you will configure a Security Policy and learn about managing and monitoring a secure network. In addition, you will upgrade and configure a Security Gateway to implement a virtual private network for both internal and external, remote users.

Course Topics:

Introduction to Check Point Technology
Deployment Platforms
Introduction to the Security Policy
Monitoring Traffic and Connections
Using SmartUpdate
User Management and Authentication
Identity Awareness
Introduction to Check Point VPNs

Target Student:

Technical persons who support, install, deploy or administer Check Point Software Blades should attend this course. This could include the following:

System Administrators
Support Analysts
Security Managers
Network Engineers
Anyone seeking CCSA certification

Prerequisites:

Persons attending this course should have general knowledge of TCP/IP, and working knowledge of Windows, UNIX, network technology and the internet.

Delivery Method:

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives:

• Describe Check Point™s unified approach to network management, and the key elements of it
• Design a distributed environment
• Install the Security Gateway version R75 in a distributed environment
• Perform a backup and restore the current Gateway installation from the command line
• Identify critical files needed to purge or backup, import and export users and groups and add or delete administrators from the command line
• Deploy Gateways using sysconfig and cpconfig from the Gateway command line
• Create and configure network, host and gateway objects
• Verify SIC establishment between the Security Management Server and the Gateway using SmartDashboard
• Create a basic Rule Base in SmartDashboard that includes permissions for administrative users, external services, and LAN
  outbound use
• Configure NAT rules on Web and Gateway servers
• Evaluate existing policies and optimize the rules based on current corporate requirements
• Maintain the Security Management Server with scheduled backups and policy versions to ensure seamless upgrades with minimal downtime
• Use Queries in SmartView Tracker to monitor IPS and common network traffic and troubleshoot events using packet data
• Use packet data to generate reports, troubleshoot system and security issues, and ensure network functionality
• Using SmartView Monitor, configure alerts and traffic counters, view a Gateway™s status, monitor suspicious activity rules, analyze tunnel activity and monitor remote user access
• Monitor remote Gateways using SmartUpdate to evaluate the need for upgrades, new installations, and license modifications
• Use SmartUpdate to apply upgrade packages to single or multiple VPN-1 Gateways
• Upgrade and attach product licenses using SmartUpdate
• Centrally manage users to ensure only authenticated users securely access the corporate network either locally or remotely
• Manage users to access the corporate LAN by using external databases
• Use Identity Awareness to provide granular level access to network resources
• Acquire user information used by the Security Gateway to control access
• Define Access Roles for use in an Identity Awareness rule
• Implement Identity Awareness in the Firewall Rule Base
• Configure a pre-shared secret site-to-site VPN with partner sites
• Configure permanent tunnels for remote access to corporate resourcesConfigure VPN tunnel sharing, given the difference between host-based, subunit-based and gateway-based tunnels

Course Content

Chapter 1 Introduction to Check Point Technology

• Describe Check Point™s unified approach to network management and the key elements of this architecture
• Design a distributed environment using the network detailed in the course topology
• Install the Security Gateway version R75 in a distributed environment using the network detailed in the course topology

Chapter 2 Deployment Platforms

• Given network specifications, perform a backup and restore the current Gateway installation from the command line
• Identify critical files needed to purge or backup, import and export users and groups and add or delete administrators from the command line
• Deploy Gateways using sysconfig and cpconfig from the Gateway command line

Chapter 3 Introduction to the Security Policy

• Given the network topology, create and configure network, host and gateway objects
• Verify SIC establishment between the Security Management Server and the Gateway using SmartDashboard
• Create a basic Rule Base in SmartDashboard that includes permissions for administrative users, external services, and LAN outbound use
• Configure NAT rules on Web and Gateway servers
• Evaluate existing policies and optimize the rules based on current corporate requirements
• Maintain the Security Management Server with scheduled backups and policy versions to ensure seamless upgrades with minimal downtime

Chapter 4 Monitoring Traffic and Connections

• Use Queries in SmartView Tracker to monitor IPS and common network traffic and troubleshoot events using packet data
• Using packet data on a given corporate network, generate reports, troubleshoot system and security issues, and ensure network functionality
• Using SmartView Monitor, configure alerts and traffic counters, view a Gateway™s status, monitor suspicious activity rules, analyze tunnel activity and monitor remote user access based on corporate requirements

Chapter 5 Using SmartUpdate

• Monitor remote Gateways using SmartUpdate to evaluate the need for upgrades, new installations, and license modifications
• Use SmartUpdate to apply upgrade packages to single or multiple VPN-1 Gateways
• Upgrade and attach product licenses using SmartUpdate

Chapter 6 User Management and Authentication

• Centrally manage users to ensure only authenticated users securely access the corporate network either locally or remotely
• Manage users to access the corporate LAN by using external databases

Chapter 7 Identity Awareness

• Use Identity Awareness to provide granular level access to network resources
• Acquire user information used by the Security Gateway to control access
• Define Access Roles for use in an Identity Awareness rule
• Implement Identity Awareness in the Firewall Rule Base

Chapter 8 Introduction to Check Point VPNs

• Configure a pre-shared secret site-to-site VPN with partner sites
• Configure permanent tunnels for remote access to corporate resources
• Configure VPN tunnel sharing, given the difference between host-based, subunit-based and gateway-based tunnels

LAB EXERCISES INCLUDE
Distributed Installations
Branch Office Security Gateway Installations
CLI Tools
Building a Security Policy
Configure the DMZ
Configure NAT
Monitor with SmartView Tracker
Client Authentication
Identity Awareness
Site-to-Site VPN between corporate and branch office