This Week in CheckMates 26 April 2021

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On May the 4th, CheckMates will bring you a community-wide virtual event that will bring clarity to the cloud with special guests sharing their insights and inspiring you to Secure Your Everything…in the cloud and elsewhere.

Our Agenda:

• Ask Me Anything with Dr. Dorit Dor, Vice President of Products, and Gil Shwed, Founder & CEO
• Upcoming Product Releases! First look at Securing Containers with TJ Gonen, Head of Cloud Product, and Erez Yarkoni, Head of Cloud Sales
• Live Demo with Shay Levin, Technical Community Manager
• Preventing Cloud-Based Attacks with Dan Wiley, Head of Threat Management and Chief Security Advisor

Register Now!

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Hot Community Topics

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• R81.10 Early Availability (Now Public EA)
• R80.40 JHF GA Take 102
• R80.40 SmartConsole Build 423
• R80.10 End of Support Policy Update
• CPX 360 2021 Wrap-Up: Video, Slides, and Q&A
• Updatable Object for Check Point Services
• Adding Multiple Cluster Interfaces on Different Subnets via API
• Secondary Management Server Resets to Active
• Terraform How-to Guide
• Dual ISP and SIC
• Hand-Edited Files to Check After Gateway Upgrade or Fresh Install

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Upcoming TechTalks

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MITRE ATT&CK – from a CVE to a meaningful technique used by the attacker, first in the industry!

In this session on May 12th, we will review the new MITRE ATT&CK extension for IPS & Anti-Bot and we will give the CheckMates community the opportunity to use the extension before it is released as a public GA!

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Check Point Updates

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Secure DevOps Access to Cloud Workloads 

Join us on April 27^th to learn how Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) can help you easily secure access to production environments for DevOps and administrators with cloud-native capabilities like PAM-as-a-service, automated server onboarding (AWS) and dynamic tag-based management.

• Americas
• EMEA/APAC

As The Cyber World Turns: A Strategy to Increase Security Efficiency

Slowed economic growth and the push to secure systems from supply chain attacks underscores the importance of a unified security architecture that increases security efficiency. Join security evangelist Grant Asplund on April 28 as he shares the building blocks for putting in place a consolidation strategy that increases security efficiency with the Infinity platform. Register now:

• North America
• EMEA/APAC

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Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

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• 27 April 2021: Russia: CloudGuard for NSX Security Best Practices
• 6 May 2021:
  • Belux: Harmony Connect Internet Access
  • Mid-Atlantic/Federal US: Identity Awareness Best Practices
• 11 May 2021:
  • DACH: Performance Optimization Part 3, CoreXL
  • Western US: War Stories, Tips, and Tricks from Incident Response
• 12 May 2021: Netherlands: New Frequently Asked Security Questions
• 13 May 2021: North Central US: APIs, Scripts, and Automation – Oh My!
• 20 May 2021: Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 4: Clustering and Hyperscale

While anyone is welcome to register for a CheckMates Live Virtual Edition event, events are limited to a certain number of participants with priority given to those within the specified geographic area.
If you're interested in a specific topic for your area, contact us and we'll be happy to arrange a session for your area!
Bookmark the CheckMates Calendar to have an up-to-date list of events at your fingertips!
If you attend CheckMates Live events, you can get CPE credit!