This Week in CheckMates: 30 March 2018

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CheckMates Live in Denver (x2) and Omaha

This past week, I was at CheckMates Live events in the Denver area (Centennial and Westminster) that were well attended!

Also, the local team in Nebraska put on an event in Omaha!

Community Highlights

Here are the top threads from the past week:

Bash script to show IP ranges for Countries from GeoProtection (ip2country.csv) 

Perhaps this could be extended to automatically create objects based on this?

Fortigate Firewall ICAP and Sandblast (TEX) 

Did you know that you can even leverage the power of Check Point SandBlast if your perimeter gateway is Fortinet? Yes you can, if you integrate using ICAP.

MTA on R80.10 VSX 

Pointers to the documentation on how to do it as well as a member explaining how to do it.

Can I do R80.10 downgrade to R77.30?  

The only way to downgrade is by restoring a backup.

Best way to handle locked session (locked but not available on session panel) 

This shouldn't happen, but if it does...

Delete Rules with a Zero Hit Count 

Very useful R80.x script.

R80.10 Tip Of The Day: Separate the Install Policy Permission 

Customers with strict change control might appreciate this tip.

Natting to an IP range not directly connected 

Had to dig into the phoneboy.com archives for the answer to this one

Log Exporter guide 

Some nice FAQs from one of the developers who worked on our new Log Exporter tool. 

Upcoming Events

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

• 17^th April 2018: CheckMates Live Toronto: Migrating to R80.10, Live! 
• 19^th April 2018: CheckMates Live Calgary: Migrating to R80.10, Live!
• 26^th April 2018: Atlanta: Check Point R80 API and Bring Your Own Malware