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Vienna Calling!
You can bet the CheckMates team will be at CPX 360 in Vienna!
Meanwhile, Kishin Fatnani took a great photo of a bunch of us in Vegas!
Posted: https://community.checkpoint.com/community/infinity-general/blog/2019/02/14/cpx360
Community Highlights
Here are the conversations worth watching in the community:
Yes, theres a bug there, but thanks to the community, we'll see an improvement!
The number of CoreXL on all cluster members must match or clustering won't work.
Not really a bug, but a misunderstanding of how the policy works on SMB appliances.
Have to admit, this one stumped me, even!
While it's not possible to limit who can read a specific policy, you can restrict what logs they can see (in R80.x at least).
Given there are a number of different ways to debug, there is no simple answer to this question.
The fixed version of firmware was released on 11 February. See: R77.20.85 for Small and Medium Business Appliances
Including the implied rules.
Rename the files. We are planning a fix for this.
Upcoming Events
Due to the upcoming change to Lithium, we are maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar.
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar
Upcoming events include:
We are currently in the planning phases for our 2019 events.
If you want one in your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com