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CheckMates at CPX 360 2020

We were at CPX 360 2020 Bangkok, of course, and we'll be in New Orleans and Vienna!

Community Highlights

Here's the threads to watch from the last week:

Software/Service Releases

• Management as a Service: Now Available!
• R80.30 JHF Ongoing Take 136
• Check Point Provider on Terraform Officially Live

Useful Code

• ASAtoVSX - Translate your Cisco running config to VSX and more! 
• One-liner to show live CPU usage of all FWK instances of a VS on FWK instances of a VS on VSX 

Other Topics

• Microsoft Forcing LDAPS March 2020
• Anonymizer Exception
• How To Set Up Certificate-Based VPNs, R80.x Edition
• New Podcast: cp<radio>
• Policy Based Routing, R80.30, and NAT
• Installing DOOM on Gaia

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
If you attend CheckMates Live events, you can get CPE credit! 

• 10 March 2020: CheckMates Live Copenhagen
• 11 March 2020: CheckMates Live Jutland
• 12 March 2020: CheckMates Live Paris

If you would like a CheckMates Live event in your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com 

New in 2020, you can now earn CPE credits for participating in CheckMates Live events!

CheckMates has a new partnership with the top five vendors of Cyber Security certification organizations. By attending a CheckMates Live event, you can earn a certain number of CPE credits and extend your certification validity.

FAQ:

What is CheckMates Live?

• A CheckMates Live event is a Local User Group seminar.
• CheckMates invites community members, security engineers, administrators, architects and other customers’ and partners’ technical personnel to discuss various technical topics concerning Check Point Security Systems. We engage the participants in a transparent and direct discussion, helping them to master new products and feature. Challenges, dependencies, troubleshooting, and other engineering and architecture subjects are in the focus.
• Check out our upcoming events here!

How many CPE credits will I earn?

• The amount of CPE credits you can earn will differ for each of the CheckMates Live events and will be announced before each of the events.

Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
Past and future posts will be available here: The CheckMates Blog
To have these updates show up in your preferred RSS reader add the following URL: The CheckMates Blog RSS Feed
See also our social media accounts and our podcast (RSS Feed)

Community Highlights

Here's the threads to watch from the last week:

Software Releases

• R80.30 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Ongoing Take 135 
• Common Criteria Certificates for R80.30 

Gaia OS:

• Move External Interface to Different NIC
• Limit Local Authentication to Gaia OS when using RADIUS
• Process Utilization Per Core
• Upgrading a Smart-1 3150 to R80.30 with 10G Interfaces Enabled

Other Topics

• Release of Max Power 2020: Check Point Firewall Performance Optimization (Third Edition) 
• When will LSMcli Support 1500 Appliances? 
• Firewall Not Forwarding Traffic with Policy Unloaded
• Install Policy via API
• GEO Policy for an Access Rule
• Finding Bandwidth Consumption of Specific Host
• How to Test if Anti-Bot is Working in SandBlast Agent? 

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 

@_Val_, @Shay_Levin, and I are busy preparing for the upcoming CPX 360 events.
We will post upcoming CheckMates Live events for 2020 in the near future.

If you would like a CheckMates Live event in your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com 

Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
Past and future posts will be available here: The CheckMates Blog
To have these updates show up in your preferred RSS reader add the following URL: The CheckMates Blog RSS Feed
See also our social media accounts and our podcast (RSS Feed)

Community Highlights

As last week's "This Week in CheckMates" was a "best-of" of sorts due to the holidays, here's the content to watch from the last couple weeks:

Software Releases

• SmartConsole R80.30 GA Build 42
• SandBlast Now News December 2019

Management Topics

• API Calls to be Handled Only in One Session
• How to Discard Unwanted Changes
• Auditing Configuration Changes

Other Topics

• Moving from Detect to Prevent TechTalk 
• packet_captures.sh: Packet Captures for Dummies 
• R80.x - Performance Tuning Tip - Control SecureXL / CoreXL Paths 

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 

@_Val_, @Shay_Levin, and I are busy preparing for the upcoming CPX 360 events.
We will post upcoming CheckMates Live events for 2020 in the near future.

If you would like a CheckMates Live event in your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com 

Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
Past and future posts will be available here: The CheckMates Blog
To have these updates show up in your preferred RSS reader add the following URL: The CheckMates Blog RSS Feed
See also our social media accounts and our podcast (RSS Feed)

Community Highlights

As last week's "This Week in CheckMates" was a "best-of" of sorts due to the holidays, here's the content to watch from the last couple weeks:

Software Releases

• SmartConsole R80.10 GA Build 164
• R80.10 JHF GA Take 249
• R80.30 JHF Ongoing Take 132

Videos

• IPS Best Practices in R80.30
• AWS RDS Public IP Awareness & Auto Remediate with CloudGuard Dome9 
• R80.40 Feature List Episode 1 

Other Topics

• How to add access rule using CLI in R80.x 
• SecureXL DoS Rate Limiting 
• HP DL380 Gen10 R80.20/R80.30 Kernel 3.10 Installation Issues 
• GAiA Kernel 3.10 Availability for 5000 Series Appliances
• R80.20 Gateway Showing Unusual Number of Interrupts 

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 

@_Val_, @Shay_Levin, and I are busy preparing for the upcoming CPX 360 events.
We will post upcoming CheckMates Live events for 2020 in the near future.

• 8th January 2019: TechTalk: Moving from Detect to Prevent with @Oren_Koren 

If you would like a CheckMates Live event in your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com