This Week in CheckMates 6 May 2019

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Community Highlights

Here are the threads to watch from the last week:

New Releases

• R80.30 with Linux 3.10 Kernel Early Availability
• Google Cloud Platform High Availability Solution is GA
• CloudGuard SaaS April 2019 Upgrade

CheckMates GO Episode 3: Threat Intelligence

Wonder when I'm going to make my way onto one of these podcasts 😁

Do I Need Proxy Rule About the Stealth Rule?

Yup.

Manually Define Local VPN Domain Per Remote Peer

We'll make this something in SmartConsole soon, hopefully.

Is It Possible to Change Settings for How Application Control Works?

It's not an issue with Application Control per-se, but an issue with parsing certain HTTP traffic when Application Control is invoked.

Cannot Remove IPS Blade from Gateway Object

Make sure your Threat Prevention policy isn't too specific.

2200 Appliances and R80.20 Support

Assuming you have 4GB of RAM, it works.

Disk Space Management Seems Not to Be Working

Make sure to account for the 5% reserve that is typical in Unix filesystems.

Script to Delete A Specific Tag from All Objects

A case of "ask and you shall receive."

New Unified API Reference

Currently contains only Management and Gaia APIs, but will be updated to include the others soon.

Rulebase Audit Based on Date

Shows rules that are older than 365 days.

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 @_Val_ and I over the next few weeks

• 16th May 2019: CPX Miami 
• 22nd May 2019: WatchTower Mobile Security Management TechTalk
• 18th June 2019: CheckMates Live Estonia
• 19th June 2019: SD-WAN Security TechTalk
• 17th July 2019: Maestro TechTalk: New Features, Best Practices, and Performance Aspects

If you would like a CheckMates Live event in your area, get in contact with us: [email protected]