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Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
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CheckMates in Your Language!
While most of the content on CheckMates is in English, we now have a few groups where both content and discussions are available in other languages!
CheckMates in Paris
Valeri Loukine did an event in our Paris office this week.
Here's a brief video he recorded prior to the start of the event.
Community Highlights
Meanwhile we've had a lot of discussions the past week.
Here's some of the highlights:
R80.20 Discussions
Highlighting the threads where R80.20 topics are being discussed.
- Check Point R80.20 Now GA
- R80.20 - More ClusterXL State Information
- R80.20 - SYN Defender on SecureXL Level
- R80.20 - IP blacklist in SecureXL
- ICYMI, R80.20 Accessibility Options
- Cool Feature in R80.x: Cloud-Based Demo Mode
- R80.20 - new interesting commands
- New SecureXL path in R80.20 (CPASXL)
- Revisions Management in R80.x
Check Point for Beginners
For those who haven't been around quite as long as Valeri Loukine and I have, we have a brief history lesson: Brief History of Check Point Firewalls . There are also several videos on the subject as well:
- Understanding Check Point FireWall - Part 1
- Understanding Check Point FireWall - Part 2
- Understanding Check Point FireWall - Part 3
- Understanding Check Point FireWall - Part 4
More content will be posted here in the coming days/weeks!
IPS Analyzer Tool - How to analyze IPS performance efficiently
Lets you see the performance impact of various IPS protections.
High Performance Gateways and Tuning
Nice followup discussion to TechTalk: Security Gateway Performance Optimization with Tim Hall. See also: Show me yours
Searching zero hits rules in R80.10
You have to use the API to do it.
R77.30 to R80.10 upgrade/migration to new Smart-1?
Migrate export/import is your friend.
ckpSSL ssl lib error
This can happen when you're attempting to manage unsupported versions of Security Gateway.
Enhanced Threat Prevention System Query: Set a Column Profile to Match Your Log Query
How to more easily see when Threat Prevention signatures get updated.
Upcoming Events
Between Valeri Loukine and I, we'll be busy in the next several weeks!
- 16th October 2018: CheckMates comes to Raleigh, NC!
- 17th October 2018: CheckMates comes to Charlotte, NC!
- 18th October 2018: CheckMates comes to Columbia, SC!
- 24th October 2018: Migrate to R80.20, Live in Moscow!
- 24th October 2018: TechTalk: CloudGuard for AWS - Security Transit VPC Demonstration
- 25th October 2018: Migrate to R80.20, Live in Bellevue, WA!
- 30th October 2018: Check Point R80.20 Updates, Troubleshooting and Support Best Practices, Live in Hellerup!
- 1 November 2018: Check Point R80.20 Updates, Troubleshooting and Support Best Practices, Live in Skanderborg!
- 13th November 2018: Migrate to R80.20, Live in Prague!
- 20th November 2018: Migrate to R80.20 Live in Frankfurt!
- 22nd November 2018: Migrate to R80.20 Live in Athens!
