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Visit the CheckMates Community Use Case Track at CPX 360 2021!

Over 20,000 people have registered for CPX 360 2021, the industry's premier cyber security summit and expo. Are you one of them? It's happening virtually on Feb 23 - 24, 2021 for EMEA and Americas timezones. Register now to attend!

One of the 10 breakout tracks at CPX is the CheckMates team has its own Community Use Case track hosted by yours truly and @checkmates-team. Here's the schedule for our track so you don't miss anything:

23 Feb 2021

• 14:00 - 14:30 CET / 8:00 - 8:30 AM EST
  Best Practices: SmartConsole Extensions
  Danny Jung, CTO—Enterprise Security Center
• 14:30 - 15:00 CET / 8:30 - 9:00 AM EST
  Max Capture: Why cppcap is Now My Go-To Packet Capturing Tool                  
  Tim Hall, CTO—Shadow Peak Inc.
• 15:00 - 15:30 CET / 9:00 - 9:30 AM EST
  Check Point from a SOC perspective
  Federico Meiners, Cybersecurity Architect—Nynox
• 15:30 - 16:00 CET / 9:30 - 10:00 AM PST
  Cyber Warfare 2021
  Micki Boland, Cyber Security Evangelist—Check Point
• 1:30 - 2:00 PM EST / 10:30 - 11:00 AM PST
  Multination Media Company experience with CloudGuard PoC/QA/Design/Implementation
  Jonathan Gamlin, Cybersecurity Architect
• 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST / 11:00 - 11:30 AM PST
  Uncover hidden threats in your cloud with CloudGuard  NDR: Voice of the Customer
  Mike Trofi, CISO--US Holocaust Museum
• 2:30 - 3:00 PM EST / 11:30 - 12:00 PM PST
  Max Capture: Why cppcap is Now My Go-To Packet Capturing Tool 
  Tim Hall, CTO—Shadow Peak Inc.
• 3:00 - 3:30 PM EST / 12:00 - 12:30 PM PST
  Security Automation
  Kamil Kolodziejski, Network Engineer—Villa-Tech

24 Feb 2021

• 15:00 - 15:30 CET/ 9:00 - 9:30 AM EST
  Achieve Utopia Through Firewall Rulebase Automation             
  Ivo Hrbáček, Cybersecurity Architect--Actinet Informacni systemy s.r.o
• 15:30 - 16:00 CET/ 9:30 - 10:00 AM EST
  A Newcomer’s view on the Check Point Technology
  Igor Mamuzić, Network Engineer—Smart Net d.o.o.
• 16:00 - 16:30 CET/ 10:00 - 10:30 AM EST
  Cyber Espionage Reloaded: Naikon APT
  Ashwin Ram, Cyber Security Evangelist—Check Point
• 16:30 - 17:00 CET/ 10:30 - 11:00 AM EST
  CISOFLIX-  CISO Tales in the New Normal
  Jony Fischbein, CISO—Check Point
• 1:30 - 2:00 PM EST/ 10:30 - 11:00 AM PST
  Cyber Security Transitions    
  David Ulloa, CISO—IMC Companies 
• 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST/ 11:00 - 11:30 AM PST
  Best Practices: SmartConsole Extensions
  Danny Jung, CTO—Enterprise Security Center
• 2:30 - 3:00 PM EST/ 11:30 - 12:00 PM PST
  Security Awareness Training Has Failed.  Are We Willing to Fix?                    
  Dave Moore, Founder—The Internet Safety Group Ltd.
• 3:00 - 3:30 PM EST / 12:00 - 12:30 PM PST
  Infinity Autonomous Threat Prevention Explained
  Mark Lay, Infrastructure Architect—Henry Schein

CISO's Secrets Podcast

Get behind the scenes of cybersecurity’s trending topics: True stories, real-life scenarios, and a solutions-focused approach with top CISO’s. This week, we are hosting Max Garcia, CISO at NCR! 

Community Updates

• R80.40 JHF Ongoing Take 93
• TCP Out of State Drops Hidden Monitor Mode
• VPN Access Based on Machine
• What is the Docker stuff in my R81 Management?
• URL Filtering Detect Events with Untrusted Certificates
• Uninstalling Gaia Deployment Agent via CLI
• Updatable SmartConsole in R81
• mgmt_cli to create VPN Directional Match Rules
• R81 Geo Policy
• Reduce Risk and Response Time to Critical Attacks with Check Point and Siemplify

Upcoming Events

We have a number of events planned for the next several weeks:

Virtual User Group Events

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! 

• 2 March 2021:
  • Russia: Containerization, Microservices, and Kubernetes
  • Poland: Issue Resolution Best Practices
• 4 March 2021:
  • Belux: Quantum and Quantum Maestro: The Future of Network Security
  • South Central US: What's New in R81
• 9 March 2021: MEA: Whats New in R81
• 16 March 2021:
  • Russia: Check Point Remote Access
  • France: What's New in R81
• 18 March 2021:
  • Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 2 - SecureXL
  • East US: APIs, Scripts, and Automation -- Oh, My!
• 19 March 2021: Balkans: Maestro for Real
• 26 March 2021: ANZ: 2021 Edition # 1
• 30 March 2021: UK & Ireland: Technical Update Session
• 15 April 2021: Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 3 - CoreXL

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:

Register now for CPX 360 2021

We are excited to announce CPX 360 2021, the industry's premier cyber security summit and expo. You are not going to want to miss this! We're holding it virtually on Feb 23 - 24, 2021 for EMEA and Americas timezones. Register now to attend!

CheckMates Go: Talking Cloud with Grant Asplund

The mics are turned around and PhoneBoy's the one being interviewed, this time by fellow Check Point Evangelist Grant Asplund for his Talking Cloud podcast.

CISO's Secrets Podcast

Get behind the scenes of cybersecurity’s trending topics: True stories, real-life scenarios, and a solutions-focused approach with top CISO’s. This week, we are hosting Kurt John, CISO at Siemens! 

Community Updates

• R81 JHF Ongoing Take 13
• R81 SmartConsole Build 549
• R80.10 Demo Mode Deprecation
• Verify Check Point Policy in Ansible
• Custom Updatable Objects in R80.40 or R81
• Capsule VPN with Conditional Access
• A Conversation with the Check Point Incident Response Team
• Remote Access VPN Statistics One Liner

Upcoming Events

We have a number of events planned for the next several weeks:

TechTalk: Check Point + Siemplify SOAR: Reducing Risk and Response Time to Critical Attacks

Automating your security operation is one of the essential needs when facing the most advanced multi-layered cyber security threats. In this session, we will talk about building an automated security operations playbook with Check Point Next Generation Firewalls and Siemplify SOAR, based on a specific customer case. Join us on February 17th @ 8am Pacific / 5pm CET!

Virtual User Group Events

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! 

• 18 February 2021:
  • Iberia: Performance Optimization, Part 1
  • Mid-Atlantic US: Remote Access and SASE Best Practices
• 2 March 2021: Poland: Issue Resolution Best Practices
• 4 March 2021:
  • Belux: Quantum and Quantum Maestro: The Future of Network Security
  • South Central US: What's New in R81
• 9 March 2021: MEA: Whats New in R81
• 16 March 2021: France: What's New in R81
• 18 March 2021:
  • Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 2 - SecureXL
  • East US: APIs, Scripts, and Automation -- Oh, My!
• 19 March 2021: Balkans: Maestro for Real
• 15 April 2021: Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 3 - CoreXL

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:

Register now for CPX 360 2021

We are excited to announce CPX 360 2021, the industry's premier cyber security summit and expo. You are not going to want to miss this! We're holding it virtually on Feb 23 - 24, 2021 for EMEA and Americas timezones. Register now to attend!

CheckMates Go: CPX 360 2021 Preview on Network Security and Infinity

In this episode, we'll hear from Gera Dorfman, Benny Shlesinger, Oded Gonda, and Itai Greenberg who will give you a preview of what we'll be speaking about in more detail as part of Check Point's CPX 360 2021 conference coming up on the 23-24 February 2021 around Network Security and how we will be expanding the Infinity vision. Make sure you listen to Part 1 of our CPX 360 2021 preview if you haven't already!

CISO's Secrets Podcast

Get behind the scenes of cybersecurity’s trending topics: True stories, real-life scenarios, and a solutions-focused approach with top CISO’s. This week, we are hosting Brian Lozada, CISO of HBO Max! 

Software Updates

• R81.10 EA Program
• R80.30 JHF Ongoing Take 228
• R80.30 SmartConsole Build 99
• R80.10 JHF GA Take 288
• Infinity Next / CloudGuard WAAP Management Usability Study
• SandBlast Agent 90-Day Trial

Community Updates

• Add Cluster State to Gaia Prompt
• Requirements for Security Management Server in VMware
• Reference Questionnaire for Designing Identity-Based Security Architecture
• Authenticate to SmartConsole with Active Directory
• SSH Weak Algorithms Supported
• New Certification Model Promotions

Upcoming Events

We have a number of events planned for the next several weeks:

TechTalk: Check Point + Siemplify SOAR: Reducing Risk and Response Time to Critical Attacks

Automating your security operation is one of the essential needs when facing the most advanced multi-layered cyber security threats. In this session, we will talk about building an automated security operations playbook with Check Point Next Generation Firewalls and Siemplify SOAR, based on a specific customer case. Join us on February 17th @ 8am Pacific / 5pm CET!

Virtual User Group Events

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! 

• 9 February 2021: Western US: What's New in R81
• 11 February 2021: Adriatics: Performance Optimization Part 2: SecureXL
• 18 February 2021:
  • Iberia: Performance Optimization, Part 1
  • Mid-Atlantic US: Remote Access and SASE Best Practices
• 2 March 2021: Poland: Issue Resolution Best Practices
• 4 March 2021:
  • Belux: Quantum and Quantum Maestro: The Future of Network Security
  • South Central US: What's New in R81
• 16 March 2021: France: What's New in R81
• 18 March 2021: Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 2 - SecureXL
• 19 March 2021: Balkans: Maestro for Real
• 15 April 2021: Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 3 - CoreXL

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:

Register now for CPX 360 2021

We are excited to announce CPX 360 2021, the industry's premier cyber security summit and expo. If the Sales Kick Off I just attended is any indication, you are not going to want to miss this! We're holding it virtually on Feb 23 - 24, 2021 for EMEA and Americas timezones. Register now to attend!

CheckMates Go: CPX 360 2021 Preview on Cloud and Endpoint Security

If you want to get a sneak peak at CPX 360 2021, take a listen to this episode of the CheckMates Go Cyber Security Podcast where we talk about our 2021 plans around Cloud and Endpoint Security! Make sure to leave us a rating and review and share with your colleagues!

Software Updates

• R81 JHF Ongoing Take 11
• R80.40 JHF GA Take 91
• R80.40 JHF Ongoing Take 92
• SmartConsole R80.40 Build 416
• R80.30 JHF GA Take 227

Community Updates

• Gateway With Only One Public IP
• VS Standby Member Can't Reach DNS or Internet
• Automatic Versus Manual NAT
• NFS Client Support
• History of Configuration/JHF Changes on a Gateway
• CA Bundle on Locally Managed SMB Gateway

Upcoming Events

We have a number of events planned for the next several weeks:

TechTalk: Check Point + Siemplify SOAR: Reducing Risk and Response Time to Critical Attacks

Automating your security operation is one of the essential needs when facing the most advanced multi-layered cyber security threats. In this session, we will talk about building an automated security operations playbook with Check Point Next Generation Firewalls and Siemplify SOAR, based on a specific customer case.

Virtual User Group Events

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! 

• 4 February 2021:
  • Belux: CloudGuard WAAP - Automated Web Application, API, and Bot Protection
  • Southeastern US: What's New in R81
• 9 February 2021: Western US: What's New in R81
• 11 February 2021: Adriatics: Performance Optimization Part 2: SecureXL
• 18 February 2021:
  • Iberia: Performance Optimization, Part 1
  • Mid-Atlantic US: Remote Access and SASE Best Practices