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Welcome to "This Week in Checkmates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
Past and future posts will be available here: About CheckMates
If you can't wait for the weekly update, follow our Twitter account where threads are highlighted regularly: @CPCheckMates!
Here are some highlights from the week's activity on CheckMates:
You can leverage the tags feature in IPS profiles in R80+ to make it easier to keep just the right IPS protections active.
Short and sweet article, which could easily be turned into an Ansible playbook for automation purposes!
If you're planning to upgrade your VSX gateway appliance to R80.10, have a look at this thread. Have you upgraded your VSX to R80.10 yet to leverage 64bit virtual systems, among other things?
If you've purchased NGTX with your latest Check Point Appliance package, but haven't activated it yet, here's how to activate it for maximum protection.
If you're looking from help from Check Point, here's a list of resources (aside from CheckMates, of course) where you can turn to in order to get help.
We have a lot of spaces on CheckMates where you can ask for help?
The spaces are organized by topics and product lines.
This is done to make it easier to find relevant content and allows the relevant people inside Check Point to monitor and respond accordingly.
Refer to the following document for a list of products and what spaces they map to: All Products and Where To Post About Them
Our upcoming events in the next few weeks include:
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