The CheckMates Blog

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

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

Software Releases

• R80.20 Ongoing JHF Take 141 
• R80.10 SmartConsole GA Build 176
• Endpoint Security/SandBlast Agent E82.40 Release

R80.40 Content

• R80.40 Release in Google Cloud Platform
• R80.40 Release in Azure
• Automate Everyday Tasks with SmartTasks
• R80.40 Automation and Orchestration with Terraform, Ansible, and More
• New Updatable Objects for HTTPS Inspection: HTTPS Services Bypass 

Cloud Topics

• Multi-Homed EC2: How to Force Topology for Auto-Provisioning 
• Automatically Find and Remediate Non-Encrypted Amazon S3 Buckets 
• Add Routes to Azure Scale Set

Other Topics

• Domain Backup and Migration in R80.x
• The R80.x Adoption Experience by the Numbers TechTalk: Video, Slides, and Q&A 
• MDS: Global Search Across CMA by IP 
• VSX Technology
• Multiple WAN IP for IPSEC

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! 

• 20 February 2020: CheckMates Live Sydney 
• 4 March 2020: TechTalk: Security Management R80.40 - Whats New 
• 10 March 2020: CheckMates Live Copenhagen
• 11 March 2020: CheckMates Live Jutland
• 12 March 2020:
  • CheckMates Live Paris
  • CheckMates Live Dublin
• 20 March 2020: CheckMates Live Athens 
• 15 April 2020: CheckMates Live Vienna

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

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

Software Releases

• R80.30 JHF Take 140 now GA
• R80.20 Ongoing JHF Take 138

R80.40 Content

• Is There A Way to Make API Calls With Other Authentication Methods? 
• Central Management Support for 1500 Series Appliances

Other Topics

• Migrate VM to Smart-1 Appliance
• Object is Viewed in Read Only Mode
• SecureXL - Alternative Method to Identify Rule Causing Templates to be Disabled 
• Problem with Multiple SMB Appliances Behind Same NAT and VPN
• Estimating Size of Migrate Export

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! 

• 20 February 2020: CheckMates Live Sydney 
• 10 March 2020: CheckMates Live Copenhagen
• 11 March 2020: CheckMates Live Jutland
• 12 March 2020:
  • CheckMates Live Paris
  • CheckMates Live Dublin

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)

CheckMates at CPX 360 2020 Vienna

Our booth got mobbed at CPX! 

Y'all did a great job asking us questions in the Ask Me Anything with @Dorit_Dor and team:

@Danny did a great presentation highlighting YOUR contributions to Code Hub!

And we're done with CPX 360 for the year!
Hope to see you all at a CheckMates Live event later this year!

Community Highlights

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

R80.40 Content

• CloudGuard IaaS R80.40
• New Upgrade Mechanism for Management Servers in R80.40

Audio/Video Content

• Introducing the cp<radio> Podcast
• Hosting a Web Server behind CloudGuard IaaS in AWS
  

Other Topics

• MDS Migration from R77.30 to R80.30 with HA 
• CloudGuard IaaS logging to GCP Stackdriver
• Encryption Domain with Exclusion Group
• Specific Files Manually Modified on Security Management 
• "Payload is not a Valid JSON" when bash scripting with cURL

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! 

• 20 February 2020: CheckMates Live Sydney 
• 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 

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)

CheckMates at CPX 360 2020 New Orleans

Did you see the Check Point ads in the New Orleans airport?

Meanwhile, @Amit_Sharon and I were presenting to our sales teams:

@Moti  was the front man for our Ask Me Anything with @Dorit_Dor and the team:

I was definitely "behind the scenes" though:

And of course, the CheckMates Zone was full of fun and games:

We'll be in Vienna next week. Will you be there?

Community Highlights

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

Software/Service Releases

• R80.40 is GA (Official Announcement and the Unofficial Announcement)
• New Security Management Features in R80.40
• New Version of Check Point App for Splunk

Other Topics

• Check Point Jump Start: Free Video Training 
• Strict hold is not possible failure - Write to other side occurred 
• Anti-Spoofing and VPN Traffic 
• How to Migrate a Massive Environment to Check Point (presented at CPX 360 2020 New Orleans)
• Gateway Versions That Can Be Managed by R80.x
• R80.40 Dynamic Split Enabled or Disabled?

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! 

• 20 February 2020: CheckMates Live Sydney 
• 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