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Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
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CheckMates in Your Language!
While most of the content on CheckMates is in English, we now have a few groups where both content and discussions are available in other languages!
CheckMates in Belgium and Ireland
Valeri Loukine and I did the last CheckMates events for 2018 in Belgium and Ireland. A great time was had by all.
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"I'm not ready yet, guys!"
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He won the Kahoot!
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CheckMates will be at all three CPX 360 2019 event in January and February. See you there?
Community Highlights
Here are the conversations worth watching in the community:
We launched our new online portal for TAC cases! Check the thread for more details and share your feedback.
And related thread: CheckPoint Cluster Failover Query. Bottom line: Both ISPs need to be available/reachable from both gateways.
Nice video showing how to deploy the Endpoint solution.
If you're using fw monitor in R80.20, you'll see some different "inspection points." This thread explains.
Yes, they're still supported even though one doc suggested they weren't.
We made this much easier in R80.x.
Make sure you're calling the correct API endpoint.
SmartEvent, anyone?
Never seen that myself, but makes sense that it could.
A collection of upgrades that went successfully...and not.
Update the Threat Prevention profile to block it.
Upcoming Events
And, of course, CPX 360 2019!
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