This Week in CheckMates 2 December 2019

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Check Point for Beginners

We made a few changes to the landing page for our Check Point for Beginners section, which will hopefully make it easier to find the content you're looking for. Your feedback is definitely appreciated! More content will be coming in 2020 as well.

Community Highlights

Here are the threads to watch from the last week:

• R80.30 Jumbo Hotfix New Ongoing Take 111
• Endpoint Security/SandBlast Agent E82.10 
• URL Filtering versus Anti-Virus versus Anti-Bot
• Impact of Rulebase Size on Gateway Performance
• R80.30 with 3.10 Kernel on VMware Servers 
• SmartView and Custom Actions
• Endpoint Security VPN Only on Company-Owned Devices
• /30 and /26 to ISP Without a Router 
• HTTPS Inspection Documentation for R80.30
• Jumbo Hotfix Accumulators, Jumbo Hotfixes, Takes, Keeping it Straight 
• Managing SMB Devices and Fetching Policy with SmartLSM

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks:

• 2nd December 2019: CheckMates Live Omaha with @PhoneBoy 
• 3rd December 2019:
  • CheckMates Live Des Moines with @PhoneBoy 
  • CheckMates Live Dusseldorf with @Val_Loukine 
• 4th December 2019: CheckMates Live Kansas City with @PhoneBoy 
• 5th December 2019: CheckMates Live Springfield with @PhoneBoy 
• 6th December 2019: CheckMates Live St. Louis with @PhoneBoy
• 12th December 2019: CheckMates Live Paris with @Val_Loukine 

If you would like a CheckMates Live event in your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com