The Best of the Best of CheckMates for 2020

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The CheckMates Community became increasingly important during 2020 as a resource to help you secure your everything under the new normal. We could not have done it without the contribution of all of you, but especially our Champions for 2020! So, rather than our weekly This Week in CheckMates post, we will highlight and recognize our Champions for their fantastic contributions!

If you haven't registered yet, please join us on 6 January 2021 @ 8am Pacific / 5pm CET as we celebrate our Champions, showcase your photos from the CheckMates Everywhere contest, discuss Check Point's Product Roadmap, led by VP of Products Dr. Dorit Dor and team, as well as some tales from Incident Response with our head of Threat Management and Chief Security Advisor Dan Wiley. We also have some amazing prizes to give away!

Members of the Year

Congratulations to @HeikoAnkenbrand, @Danny, and @Timothy_Hall, all three of which who have been previous Champions and continue to make fantastic contributions to the community! Some key contributions from each include:

Heiko:

• Face Recognition with R81
• Easy Execute CLI Commands from Management on Gateways
• R80.x Ports Used by Various Check Point Modules

Danny:

• Remote Access VPN Statistics One-Liner
• One-Liner to Update IpToCountry Data on Security Management
• CoreXL Dynamic Balancing

Tim:

• How to Disable IPS Protections in Bulk
• Uneven Use of Multiqueue CPU Cores
• How to Disable SecureXL for Specific Source to Specific Destination

Rising Stars

Congratulations to @Magnus-Holmberg and @Norbert_Bohusch whom made a significant impact to the community this year! A few key contributions from each include:

Magnus:

• How to Import Multiple Objects into R8x Management Using .CSV
• How to Add Additional Log Space in a VM
• How to Use fw monitor

Norbert:

• Management Server Behind NAT: Cannot Get Logs from One Cluster
• Changing the Certificate Presented for Endpoint Security Client
• Enable Tracking All Rules Not Working After Upgrade to R80.x

Contributions of the Year

Congratulations to these award-winning contributions!

• Easy Mobile User License Tool from @HeikoAnkenbrand
• ASA to VSX: Translate Your Cisco Running Configuration to VSX from @FedericoMeiners
• CPviewer: Visualize your cpview/cpinfo Files in 5 Minutes from @Petar_Markota