Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
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Community Highlights

Join us for the annual CheckMates Fest!

Let's meet in virtual space and celebrate our community success and the New Year 2022!
Our agenda includes:

• Seasonal greetings from the community team,
• "What's New in R81.20" session with
  • Tomer Noy, Director of Management Products, and
  • Guy Israeli, Security Services Product Manager,
• And more!

Register now and you'll be entered into a raffle to win one of three $100 Amazon gift cards!

Register Now

The Best of CheckMates in 2021?

It's that time of the year where we recognize members on CheckMates for their outstanding contributions and we need your help in choosing the winners! Please take a moment and vote in our survey where you can also provide us other feedback and be entered for a chance to win an Amazon gift card!

Hot Community Topics

• R81.10 JHF Ongoing Take 22
• R80.40 JHF GA Take 139
• R80.10 JHF Ongoing Take 298
• SmartConsole R80.10 Build 188
• R80.20.35 JHF for Quantum Spark SMB Appliances
• Centralized Upgrades Best Practices TechTalk: Video, Slides, and Q&A 
• Check Point IRT Discusses log4j
• Log4j - Web Scanning Tool and Protection Verification
• AWS WAF Bypass - Boolean Based Authentication 
• Homekit (Siri) Integration with R81 Dynamic Objects
• Unable to deactivate Active Directory Query 
• set cluster member admin up Doesn't Work
• SecureXL No Accelerated Connections
• Issues with Log Export in SmartView

Upcoming TechTalks

We will resume TechTalks in the near future. Meanwhile, you can view recordings of past TechTalks anytime!

View The Archive

Check Point Events

CPX 360 2022: The Most Important Cyber Security Event of the Year 

CPX 360 2022 is the most important event for cyber security professionals in the new year. This is your opportunity to learn about groundbreaking industry advances and how to use them to your advantage for years to come. This virtual event arms you with the knowledge you need to defend against the latest security challenges brought on by the post-pandemic world.

Talking Cloud with special guest, Eran Orzel, (CRO) and Founding Member at Argon Security

Supply chain breaches are in the headlines like never before...and seemingly increasing every day. Exacerbating the risks is the rapid and widespread increase in use of cloud including SaaS, code repositories and open-source code use. In this episode you'll hear Eran Orzel, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Founding Member at Argon Security discuss the use cases they address and some of the unique aspects of the Argon solution.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

Events will be planned later in 2022.
While anyone is welcome to register for a CheckMates Live Virtual Edition event, events are limited to a certain number of participants with priority given to those within the specified geographic area.
If you're interested in a specific topic for your area, contact us and we'll be happy to arrange a session for your area!
Bookmark the CheckMates Calendar to have an up-to-date list of events at your fingertips!
If you attend CheckMates Live events, you can get CPE credit! 

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:

Community Highlights

The Best of CheckMates in 2021

It's that time of the year where we recognize members on CheckMates for their outstanding contributions and we need your help in choosing the winners! Please take a moment and vote in our survey where you can also provide us other feedback and be entered for a chance to win an Amazon gift card!

Everything log4j from CheckMates

CheckMates has you covered with information about how what you need to know about the log4j vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046) and how you can protect your organization.

• TechTalk Special Edition: The Apache log4j Vulnerability Explained
• sk176865: Check Point's response to Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution (CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-... 
• Protect Yourself Against The Apache Log4j Vulnerability (from the Check Point Blog)
• Cyber Pandemic update – Critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j
• CVE-2021-44228 - Log4j vulnerability - Log4Shell 
• Second Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-45046) Discovered 

Upcoming TechTalks

We are planning our annual CheckMates Fest event for early January. Meanwhile, you can view recordings of past TechTalks anytime!

View The Archive

Check Point Events

CPX 360 2022: The Most Important Cyber Security Event of the Year 

CPX 360 2022 is the most important event for cyber security professionals in the new year. This is your opportunity to learn about groundbreaking industry advances and how to use them to your advantage for years to come. This virtual event arms you with the knowledge you need to defend against the latest security challenges brought on by the post-pandemic world.

CISO's Secrets S3E5 - Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity, University of Oxford

In this week’s episode of CISO’s Secret, Cyber Security Evangelist Grant Asplund hosts Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity, University of Oxford. Cyber Security Oxford brings together the dynamic and vibrant community of researchers and experts working on Cyber Security at the University of Oxford. The network links the wide variety of research and education activities across the University, and provides an easy point of contact for engagement.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

Events will be planned for 2022.

While anyone is welcome to register for a CheckMates Live Virtual Edition event, events are limited to a certain number of participants with priority given to those within the specified geographic area.
If you're interested in a specific topic for your area, contact us and we'll be happy to arrange a session for your area!
Bookmark the CheckMates Calendar to have an up-to-date list of events at your fingertips!
If you attend CheckMates Live events, you can get CPE credit! 

Like our past events, we are recognizing our top CheckMates contributors and you, the CheckMates members, can help us choose the best of CheckMates in 2021. This year's categories include Member of the Year, CloudMates Member of the Year, and Rising Star of the Year!

Vote Now

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:

Community Highlights

The Best of CheckMates in 2021?

It's that time of the year where we recognize members on CheckMates for their outstanding contributions and we need your help in choosing the winners! Please take a moment and vote in our survey where you can also provide us other feedback and be entered for a chance to win an Amazon gift card!

Hot Community Topics

• CVE-2021-44228 Log4j Vulnerability
• Quantum R81.20 EA Program
• R81 JHF GA Take 44
• R80.40 JHF Ongoing Take 139
• SmartMove December 2021 Updates
• Rules and Operations View for SmartEvent
• Old SmartEvent Correlated Events View in R8x SmartEvent
• Browse Time Report for SmartEvent
• Will SmartWorkflow Come Back?

Upcoming TechTalks

Centralized Upgrades Best Practices

In a complex environment, keeping your security system up to date may be a real challenge. In the R&D Device Operation Group, our mission is to help our customers by reducing time and complexity of their daily tasks. In this TechTalk, we will discuss the latest SmartConsole functionality which changes the maintenance and upgrade routine for you. Join us to learn how to centralize upgrade operations with the latest versions.

Register Here

Check Point Events

Talking Cloud with Sitaraman (Ram) Lakshminarayanan, Director, Security Architecture at Guardant Hea... 

Ram has several years of experience as a security architect. His roots are in software development and this provides him with keen insights and understandings of the challenges in building and securing todays cloud native environments and applications. 

From CyberTalk.org

• Eight of the best cyber security books to read for 2022.
• Could this BlackCat ransomware cross your path? (Also, don’t miss this cat!)
• Check Point’s Philippe Rondel offers insight into low code/no code

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 14 December 2021:
  • UK and Ireland:Performance Optimization Part 4 - Clustering and Hyperscale
  • Americas: Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec
• 16 December 2021: Caribbean: What's New in R81.10

While anyone is welcome to register for a CheckMates Live Virtual Edition event, events are limited to a certain number of participants with priority given to those within the specified geographic area.
If you're interested in a specific topic for your area, contact us and we'll be happy to arrange a session for your area!
Bookmark the CheckMates Calendar to have an up-to-date list of events at your fingertips!
If you attend CheckMates Live events, you can get CPE credit! 

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:

Community Highlights

Share your Cyber Security Insights on our virtual stage at #CPX 360 2022

We’re looking for speakers who will teach, share and inspire Check Point customers and partners to use the innovations, strategies, tools, and techniques needed to prevent cyber threats! How are you leveraging the power of Check Point Infinity Architecture to protect your organization? How did you enable your organization secure remote access in the new normal? What are some of the technical tips and tricks you can recommend? 

Hot Community Topics

• R81 JHF GA Take 44
• R80.40 JHF Ongoing Take 138
• R80.30SP Ongoing Take 97 
• New GA for R81.10 and JHF Take 14 Clarification
• Check Update Servers
• AWS WAF Bypass Blind SQL Injection
• Inline Layer with App Control Only Does Firewall Rules
• Changing Firewall Rules While Management is Down
• Viewing Global Properties via CLI
• Why RST-ACK Packets are Dropped from Client

Upcoming TechTalks

Azure Gateway Load Balancer and CloudGuard Deep Dive

Azure Gateway Load Balancer is a new service that makes it easy and cost-effective to deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual appliances' availability. It opens up new frontiers to add your own custom logic or 3rd party offering into any networking path for Azure where you want to inspect and take action on packets.

CloudGuard network solutions is now seamlessly integrated with the GWLB & VXLAN encapsulation.

In this Deep Dive webinar, we are going to walk you through the process of building a secure enterprise scalable topology protected by CloudGuard. We will take you step-by-step through the deployment and configuration process on both Azure and CloudGuard.

Register Here - Europe

Register Here - Americas

Centralized Upgrades Best Practices

In a complex environment, keeping your security system up to date may be a real challenge. In the R&D Device Operation Group, our mission is to help our customers by reducing time and complexity of their daily tasks. In this TechTalk, we will discuss the latest SmartConsole functionality which changes the maintenance and upgrade routine for you. Join us to learn how to centralize upgrade operations with the latest versions.

Register Here

Check Point Events

CISO Secret S3E3: Ning Wang, CEO at Offensive Security

In this week’s episode of CISO’s Secret, Cyber Security Evangelist Grant Asplund hosts Ning Wang, CEO at Offensive Security

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 7 December 2021:
  • Russian - CloudGuard - облачная безопасность – летаем в облаках
  • En Francais: Optimization Best Practices
  • Americas: CloudGuard Container Security
• 9 December 2021:
  • Russian: Quantum - отвечаем вызовам времени в сетевой безопасности от Check Point
  • South Central US: Performance Optimization Diagnostics How-To
• 10 December 2021: Netherlands: Remote Access VPN, SAML authentication and Identity Awareness 
• 14 December 2021:
  • UK and Ireland:Performance Optimization Part 4 - Clustering and Hyperscale
  • Americas: Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec
• 16 December 2021: Caribbean: What's New in R81.10

While anyone is welcome to register for a CheckMates Live Virtual Edition event, events are limited to a certain number of participants with priority given to those within the specified geographic area.
If you're interested in a specific topic for your area, contact us and we'll be happy to arrange a session for your area!
Bookmark the CheckMates Calendar to have an up-to-date list of events at your fingertips!
If you attend CheckMates Live events, you can get CPE credit!