Welcome to "This Week in Checkmates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
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Administrivia
Somehow, I managed to publish the "This Week in CheckMates" post for last week without actually finishing it.
I guess that's an occupational hazard of traveling, as I was in London and Ireland last week for CheckMates events
If you care, I've updated it with good content from last week: https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2017/09/22/this-week-in-checkmates-...
Also, I'm now naming these posts with the date that they intend to be published, so you know to what point they cover.
Community Highlights
Here are some highlights from the week's activity on CheckMates:
Earlier this week our researchers did a deep dive on Bashware, a method that exploits the Windows Subsystem for Linux that's now available for Windows 10, to "hide" from threat prevention products. There's an eye-popping demo you don't want to miss!
R80.10 has a lot of new features, some of them were widely publicized, some where not. What's your favorite?
Speaking of new features in R80, we made some improvements in SmartConsole to remind you about the Cleanup Rule and give you some hints about best practices.
Of course it does, but there are a few caveats highlighted in this post.
We've had Domain Objects for quite some time. In R80.10, we improved them substantially.
Did You Know...
There is a mobile app available for CheckMates?
While the CheckMates Community site is fairly mobile-friendly, some prefer a native mobile app that can provide push notifications on responses to posts.
You can download the Jive Daily app for iOS or Android as follows:
When prompted, enter community.checkpoint.com as the community and sign in with your User Center credentials.
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