This Week in CheckMates 7 January 2019

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Community Highlights

Here are the conversations worth watching in the community:

Changes Ahead in the CheckMates Community

I had originally posted this last week as part of https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2019/01/02/this-week-in-checkmates-... but decided I should break it out into it's own post to draw a little more attention to it.

https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2019/01/03/community-migration-rank... 

More in my series of posts about https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2019/01/03/changes-ahead-in-the-che...‌. More are coming.

https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2019/01/01/announcing-checkmates-cl... 

If you're going to CPX, you definitely want into this exclusive club.

https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2018/12/31/how-to-videos-competitio... 

Get your videos ready, we're looking for the best "How To" videos and we're giving away prizes

R80.30 Early Availability Program is started! 

We recently released R80.20 and we're in the early phases of R80.30 testing. This is production EA with R&D assistance.

Early Availability Program for Network Security as a Service 

CloudGuard Network Security as a Service (NSaaS) is Check Point’s new product and architecture for cloud-delivered security.

https://community.checkpoint.com/community/cloudguard-iaas/blog/2019/01/03/announcement-r8020-gatewa... 

The performance has noticeably improved in these releases.

Check Point Endpoint Security Client E80.89 for MAC is now available 

Includes support for SandBlast Agent features on the Mac

Parsing the output of "mgmt_cli" 

This is an oldie but goodie that I used to answer a question along with How often are hits counts updated in API ? to come up with an answer to how to get a list of objects via the API.

Ultimate collection of Check Point links 

Good for those of you getting started with Check Point.

Check Point Diagnostic Console (cdc)  

Been some updates to this tool.

Upcoming Events

• 9th January 2019: New Years Toast and Migrate to R80.20 
• 15th January 2019: Introduction to Check Point R80.x API in Memphis
• 5th March 2019: Check Point R80.20 Updates, Troubleshooting and Support Best Practices, Live in Bratislava!

And, of course, CPX 360 2019!