This Week in CheckMates 14 April 2018

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Community Highlights

Here are the top threads from the past week:

R80+ Change Control: A Visual Guide 

Building on the work of others and previous CheckMates articles, Tim Hall‌ has put together a nice visual guide!

R80.10 upgrade from JHF 70 to JHF 91 failed 

Upgrading between JHF releases might fail if you also have private fixes installed that were not integrated into the Jumbo Hotfix.

VSX: Add Many Routes At Once? 

Yes, it's possible to do.

Understanding Threat Emulation logs 

This article digs into what you might find in the Threat Emulation logs.

What do you use for monitoring Gateways/Management? 

Some suggested tools you can use to monitor your network (including Check Point gateways).

Properly defining the Internet within a security policy 

An older thread that has cropped up with some new suggestions.

https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/7424-did-you-know-add-snort-protections-with-r8010-api 

Snort is the language you can use to add custom signatures to our IPS. Those signatures can be loaded through the API.

Upcoming Events

Here's what's coming up in the next few weeks:

• 17^th April 2018: CheckMates Live Toronto: Migrating to R80.10, Live! 
• 19^th April 2018: CheckMates Live Calgary: Migrating to R80.10, Live!
• 26^th April 2018: Atlanta: Check Point R80 API and Bring Your Own Malware 
• 24^th May 2018: Geneva: Best Practices for Check Point Security