This Week in CheckMates: 23 March 2018

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CheckMates in Denver and DC

This past week, I was in Denver and DC doing CheckMates Live events.

In Denver, we were in the Fan Cave at Mile High Stadium:

In Washington DC, we were at The Board Room!

Community Highlights

Here are the top threads from the past week:

Share your custom SmartView views & reports at CheckMates 

Following our Security Visibility Best Practices with SmartEvent‌ TechTalk, people started asking for SmartEvent Reports and Views from the community. Here's a place where you can share yours!

R80.10 Syslog Exporter 

We finally released what had been referred to as LogOut, an enhanced ability to export Check Point logs via syslog.

Migrate R77.30 standalone system to R80.10 Distributed system 

Some good advice here if you're looking to upgrade and expand your Check Point environment.

Restricting Remote Access by IPv4 Address 

If you want to only allow remote access from specific IPv4 addresses, here's how to do it.

High latency after Check Point firewall from R77.30 to R80.10 

Every situation is different. Some good troubleshooting tips here.

Upcoming Events

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

• 27^th March 2018: CheckMates User Group Meeting - Denver South
• 29^th March 2018: CheckMates User Group Meeting - Denver North
• 17^th April 2018: CheckMates Live Toronto: Migrating to R80.10, Live!‌
• 19^th April 2018: CheckMates Live Calgary: Migrating to R80.10, Live!‌

We are also looking at doing at events in the following locations in the next several weeks:

• Atlanta
• Switzerland