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Jan Kleinhans in Management29 minutes ago

Changing Multiportal Certificate via API or script (let's encrypt)

Hello, we are using an official purchased wildcard certificate for the Identity Portal and Mobile Access. Is there any way to change the certificate without usind the SmartConsole (R80.10). That would provide the possibility to use let's encrypt certificates which have to be updated every 3 months. Best Regards, Jan

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Sergio Afonso Coderch in Installation, Maintenance, and Upgrades1 hour ago

Initial VSX Configuration

Hi all, I need some help about VSX configuration. Is there any guide about a simple configuration about this?. At this moment, I have a 5900 cluster with a configuration already working. My customer want to create al least two VSX, one of them with the same configuration that is working, and the second one with an initial simple configuration. I

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aner sagi in General Product Topics14 hours ago

Things that make my crazy

Hi, This post is about things in checkpoint products that makes me crazy \ angry. 1. there is no wizard when you need to convert a gateway to cluster. i have to delete the gateway and create a new cluster object. why? 2. i can't allow LDAP AD user group as a group of smartdashboard admins. i have to use radius. why ? 3. smartcenter user

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Arun Malipatil in Developers (Code Hub)1 day ago

Geo-Protection for specific internal server IP addresses

Hi Team, Can we create Geoprotection rules to allow traffic only from specific country to my internal server? For example, I have a few web servers hosted behind CHKP FW, these servers should not be accessed from any other country apart from India. Pls note that the requirement is for only a few internal servers and for other traffic

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Valeri Loukine

in SecureKnowledge2 hours ago

Article of the Week - System Activity Report How To

Whether you work on improving performance of your Security Gateways or Management Servers, OS cumulative statistics are important for understanding the issue in hands and identifying a bottleneck. Gaia OS uses standard Linux instrument sar to provide such information. With sar command one can look into statistics about disk

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Heiko Ankenbrand

in General Product Topics3 weeks ago

R80.20 - new interesting commands

I've been testing R80.20 very intensively in the lab over the last few days. Here I have discovered some interesting new commands on CLI. What did you discover that didn't exist before? # cphaprob stat > with more clusterxl informations # fwaccel ranges > show's anti spoofing ranges # fw ctl multik

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Oral Gokgol

in Policy Management16 hours ago

Block the URLs and IPs stored in an online web feed site

This script uses Management API and automatically downloads the feed from a web site given on the $URL parameter and creates the required groups, IPs, URL Lists, and rules on your management server to block them. This is not an official script, use it with your own risk. Please firstly test it in your test

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Heiko Ankenbrand

in General Product Topics3 months ago

R80.x Security Gateway Architecture (Logical Packet Flow)

Introduction This document describes the packet flow (partly also connection flows) in a Check Point R80.10 and above with SecureXL and CoreXL, Content Inspection, Stateful inspection, network and port address translation (NAT), MultiCore Virtual Private Network (VPN) functions and forwarding are applied per-packet on the inbound and

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Veeraselvam manoharan in Developers (Code Hub)18 hours ago

Security Audit Report Using Nipper tool

Currently I am using below configuration files to generate “Security Audit Report” using nipper tool: objects.C objects.C_41 objects_5_0.C rules.C rulebases.fws rulebases_5_0.fws is there any way to automate this using API? note: nipper is a third party tool for generate security audit reports for

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Vladimir Yakovlev

in Large Scale Management3 months ago

R77.30 First Time Wizard stuck after definition of Management Connection.

Has anyone encountered this before: during FTW, after management interface is defined with the same IP as the WebUI is using, the buttons are grayed-out and the process cannot progress further: The image is Check_Point_R77.30_Install_and_Upgrade_T5.Gaia.iso and I have tried it with multiple browsers (Chrome required a one-liner to

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slobodan milidrag in Threat Prevention10 months ago

IPS Core protection - I need help to better understand

Dear team, I need your help to better understand IPS Core protections. I found in documentation: IPS Core protections - These protections are included in the product and are assigned per gateway. They are part of the Access Control policy. Why is that ? If IPS Core protections are assigned globally (per

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Heiko Ankenbrand

in General Product Topics1 week ago

R80.x Security Gateway Architecture (Acceleration Card Offloading)

Introduction R80.20 and above offer many technical innovations regarding R77 and R80.10. I will look at the new Falcon Acceleration Cards in this article. SecureXL is a software acceleration product installed on security gateways and new acceleration cards. Performance Pack uses SecureXL technology and other innovative network

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kingdavid akubuine in General Product Topics4 days ago

Not getting enough information from the Web Visualization Tool

Hi Checkmates. I recently explored the option of exporting our checkpoint firewall security policies using the Web Visualization Tool as recommended by checkpoint. I was able to convert the outputs to readable formats However, it seems to not give us enough information, i.e. I cannot see the IP address objects, or node objects. From

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