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CheckMates in the UK and Nashville
Valeri Loukine did some internal evangelizing of CheckMates with our UK colleagues:

Meanwhile I did the last US-based event for the year in Nashville:



Next week, Val and I are teaming up to do the last CheckMates events for 2018 in Europe.
Community Highlights
Here are the conversations worth watching in the community:
Not fully supported on Check Point appliances yet, but it's coming. And very soon: on Scalable Platforms (44k/64k)!
Likewise, you can install R80.20 Management in AWS. Gateway? It's coming very soon.
Doesn't even require you to upgrade to R80.20 
Another name for CPU-Level Threat Prevention.
Why they weren't enabled by default until R80.20.
Session consolidation is the likely culprit.
Where to find the Object Explorer in R80.x.
How does it work?
A little market research.
Setting Resource Classification to Background mode can cause this.
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