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

CheckMates Go: Fun with Browser Extensions

PhoneBoy talks with Adam Gray, a founding and current member of the Board of Directors of Novacoast. We talk a bit about the early days of Cyber Security, how that led to the NovaSOC offering, then a bit about the potential security issues with browser extensions.

Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform (links below) or paste the podcast RSS feed into your favorite podcast app! Share with your friends and colleagues.  

Our Team is Growing!

The CheckMates team is looking for two young, ambitious, and dynamic interns to join us from the USA and Israel. Please help us find the best candidates!

Hot Community Topics

• CPview and DiagnosticsView TechTalk: Video, Q&A, and Slides
• Installing Hotfixes and New Versions in SmartConsole R81+
• Deploying CloudGuard AppSec:
  • To an existing NGINX server
  • In Azure
  • In AWS
• Moving VLAN to a different VS in the same VSX Cluster
• DNS VPN Link Selection
• Rule Set with Tracking None, But Still Generates Logs
• Disabling Logging of a Specific Implied Rule
• PSL Inline vs Pipeline

Upcoming TechTalks

TechTalks are a regular series designed to educate you on the latest information security technology and trends, including practical advice on protecting your critical assets from cyber attacks! We will schedule additional TechTalks in the near future. Meanwhile, you can see recordings of our past TechTalks here:

See The Archive

Check Point Updates

Interested in Using SAML Authentication with SmartConsole?

We're looking for customers to try a feature that will allow admins to log into SmartConsole using SAML SSO. This will be a private one on one usability session with R&D.

CISOs Secret: Steve Zalewski, ex-CISO at Levi Strauss

Cyber Security Evangelist Grant Asplund hosts Steve Zalewski, ex-CISO at Levi Strauss where they discuss the lessons learned over four decades of being in IT and Cyber Security.

Talking Cloud Podcast: Nick Lippis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair, ONUG

Nearly a decade ago Nick Lippis Co-Founded ONUG, and today the ONUG community has expanded to over 5,000 strong and continues growing.  In this episode, you'll hear Nick discuss the exciting project ONUG is spearheading to provide enterprises with, as he explains, critical and currently missing "...connective tissue..." for multi-cloud, hybrid deployments. You'll hear Nick explain their plans for a "cupcake, birthday cake, and wedding cake" and how you can get involved.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 31 August 2021: APAC: Learn about CheckMates, Check Point's Cyber Security Community
• 1 September 2021: West US: What's New with R81.10
• 2 September 2021:
  • BeLux: What's New in Check Point's World of Cloud?
  • Southeast US: CloudGuard Container Security
• 8 September 2021: North Central US: What's New with R81.10
• 9 September 2021: Mid-Atlantic US: Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec
• 14 September 2021: ANZ & Singapore: Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec
• 16 September 2021: India: What's New in R81.10
• 21 September 2021: UK & Ireland: Performance Optimization Best Practices Introduction
• 23 September 2021: Adriatics: Remote Access Best Practices
• 28 September 2021: South Central US: Performance Optimization Best Practices on ClusterXL and Scalable Platforms

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

CheckMates Go: He's No Gilligan

PhoneBoy talks with Cyber Security Evangelist @Grant_Asplund who hosts the CISO's Secrets podcast as well as the Talking Cloud podcast. Grant's got quite an interesting history, which we get into in this episode, talking his history opening up an Apple dealer back in the 1980s and what networking looked like back then.

Our Team is Growing!

The CheckMates team is looking for two young, ambitious, and dynamic interns to join us from the USA and Israel. Please help us find the best candidates!

Hot Community Topics

• Accelerated Policy Installation in R81+
• VoIP Configuration Wizard for Quantum Spark SMB Gateways
• Boot a Quantum 6400 Appliance from USB
• Ransomware Solved
• Geo Policy with Updatable Objects
• Show All Gateway Registry Parameters Oneliner
• Show all SecureXL Parameter Oneliner
• VPN Access Restriction Based on Domain Membership
• Use of Global Objects in Multi-Domain Environments
• Open Server Sizing
• Issue with IKEv2 Site-to-Site VPNs in R80.40 JHF 120

Upcoming TechTalks

Monitoring and Analyzing Check Point devices with CPview and DiagnosticsView

In this session on August 24th, we will review CPview utility, which allows real-time monitoring of various parameters of a single Check Point device. We will also show you how to analyze your historic data with CPview history and DiagnosticsView.

Register Here

Check Point Updates

Join us for Check Point: <SECURE> Users and Access

At this premiere event for Securing Users and Access in August 25th, Gil Shwed, CEO & Founder will be joined by security analysts and customers who’ll share insights into securing the "everywhere employee" and the hyper- distributed enterprise. Plus a Cyberpsychology expert will uncover insights in human susceptibility to cybercrime.

This Vulnerability Received a 7.3 on the Severity Scale

Which translates as: "important to pay attention to."

Talking Cloud Podcast: Nick Lippis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair, ONUG

Nearly a decade ago Nick Lippis Co-Founded ONUG, and today the ONUG community has expanded to over 5,000 strong and continues growing.  In this episode, you'll hear Nick discuss the exciting project ONUG is spearheading to provide enterprises with, as he explains, critical and currently missing "...connective tissue..." for multi-cloud, hybrid deployments. You'll hear Nick explain their plans for a "cupcake, birthday cake, and wedding cake" and how you can get involved.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 24 August 2021: Gulf and Africa: CloudGuard Container Security
• 25 August 2021: Russia: Internet of Things
• 26 August 2021: EMEA: Learn about CheckMates, Check Point's Cyber Security Community
• 31 August 2021: APAC: Learn about CheckMates, Check Point's Cyber Security Community
• 1 September 2021: West US: What's New with R81.10
• 2 September 2021:
  • BeLux: What's New in Check Point's World of Cloud?
  • Southeast US: CloudGuard Container Security
• 8 September 2021: North Central US: What's New with R81.10
• 9 September 2021: Mid-Atlantic US: CloudGuard Container Security

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

Our Team is Growing!

The CheckMates team is looking for two young, ambitious, and dynamic interns to join us from the USA and Israel. Please help us find the best candidates!

Hot Community Topics

• New HTML5 LOM for Quantum Appliances
• TLS 1.3 Inspection
• Creation of a New Bonding Group in a Production VSX Cluster
• VLAN Subinterface Not Participating in HA
• Edit Permission Profile for CPMI and LEA
• Release DHCP IP from an SMB Appliance

Upcoming TechTalks

Monitoring and Analyzing Check Point devices with CPview and DiagnosticsView

In this session on August 24th, we will review CPview utility, which allows real-time monitoring of various parameters of a single Check Point device. We will also show you how to analyze your historic data with CPview history and DiagnosticsView.

Register Here

Check Point Updates

Join us for Check Point: <SECURE> Users and Access

At this premiere event for Securing Users and Access in August 25th, Gil Shwed, CEO & Founder will be joined by security analysts and customers who’ll share insights into securing the "everywhere employee" and the hyper- distributed enterprise. Plus a Cyberpsychology expert will uncover insights in human susceptibility to cybercrime.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 24 August 2021: Gulf and Africa: CloudGuard Container Security
• 25 August 2021: Russia: Internet of Things
• 26 August 2021: EMEA: Learn about CheckMates, Check Point's Cyber Security Community
• 31 August 2021: APAC: Learn about CheckMates, Check Point's Cyber Security Community
• 1 September 2021: West US: What's New with R81.10
• 2 September 2021:
  • BeLux: What's New in Check Point's World of Cloud?
  • Southeast US: CloudGuard Container Security
• 8 September 2021: North Central US: What's New with R81.10
• 9 September 2021: Mid-Atlantic US: CloudGuard Container Security

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 Updates

CheckMates Go: Is It XDR or MDR?

PhoneBoy talked with Check Point Product Manager @Yoni_Nave about Check Point's upcoming Extended Detection and Response (XDR) offering which will also incorporate some Managed Detection and Response (MDR) elements if you need it.

Bring Your CloudMates!

Are your friends up to date on all things cloud? We'd love to help them get up to speed by offering you some great content to pass along. Join our Bring Your CloudMates contest to introduce your friends to their new go-to cloud community!

Share Your Feedback

Do you want a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card? Are you also familiar with SmartConsole and want to have an impact on new features? Then take 3 minutes to answer a few questions!

Hot Community Topics

• R80.40 GA JHF Take 120
• Google Cloud MIG R81.10 - Multi-Regional Architecture
• Hardware Migration with Minimal Downtime
• Using mgmt_cli in Scheduled Jobs
• Geo Clusters
• Uninstall Security Policy
• What Are WEB_API Sessions?
• Ansible: Add Host Object to Existing Network Group
• API Version Upgrade Independent of Management Version
• Interface Usage Monitoring

Upcoming TechTalks

Monitoring and Analyzing Check Point devices with CPview and DiagnosticsView

In this session on August 24th, we will review CPview utility, which allows real-time monitoring of various parameters of a single Check Point device. We will also show you how to analyze your historic data with CPview history and DiagnosticsView.

Register Here

Check Point Updates

Join us for Check Point: <SECURE> Users and Access

At this premiere event for Securing Users and Access in August 25th, Gil Shwed, CEO & Founder will be joined by security analysts and customers who’ll share insights into securing the "everywhere employee" and the hyper- distributed enterprise. Plus a Cyberpsychology expert will uncover insights in human susceptibility to cybercrime.

Talking Cloud Podcast: Robin Smith, CISO at Aston Martin

If you've ever heard of Aston Martin and know, even a little, about cars you know, Aston Martin is not a typical automobile. The same could be said about their CISO; Robin is anything but typical. In our thirty-third episode, we travel across the pond (again) to the UK to talk with Robin Smith, Head of Cyber and Information Security. Hear why Robin quotes Einstein ("We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them") and believes the problems and challenges we face in the cloud will take a new way of thinking...what he calls liquid thinking.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 10 August 2021: Caribbean: Issue Resolution Best Practices
• 11 August 2021: Americas: Learn about CheckMates, Check Point's Cyber Security Community
• 24 August 2021: Gulf and Africa: CloudGuard Container Security
• 25 August 2021: Russia: Internet of Things
• 26 August 2021: EMEA: Learn about CheckMates, Check Point's Cyber Security Community
• 2 September 2021: BeLux: What's New in Check Point's World of Cloud?

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 Updates

CheckMates Go: Is It XDR or MDR?

PhoneBoy talked with Check Point Product Manager @Yoni_Nave about Check Point's upcoming Extended Detection and Response (XDR) offering which will also incorporate some Managed Detection and Response (MDR) elements if you need it.

Bring Your CloudMates!

Are your friends up to date on all things cloud? We'd love to help them get up to speed by offering you some great content to pass along. Join our Bring Your CloudMates contest to introduce your friends to their new go-to cloud community!

Share Your Feedback

Do you want a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card? Are you also familiar with SmartConsole and want to have an impact on new features? Then take 3 minutes to answer a few questions!

Hot Community Topics

• R81 is now Check Point's Widely Recommended Version
• R81 JHF GA Take 36
• GAIA API 1.6 is GA
• Jumbo HFA Download Archive
• Remote Access Groups in R81.10
• Top Level Domain Blocking
• CloudGuard Improves Google Cloud Security With New Capabilities for Managed Instance Groups
• How to Edit Hosts File on Quantum Spark Appliances
• SmartConsole Filtered Rule Export
• Automatic Log Copy to External SFTP
• CloudGuard Appsec Integration with Existing NGINX Reverse Proxy
• Identity Awareness Not Matching Rule Every Time

Upcoming TechTalks

Monitoring and analyzing Check Point devices with CPview and DiagnosticsView

In this session on August 24th, we will review CPview utility, which allows real-time monitoring of various parameters of a single Check Point device. We will also show you how to analyze your historic data with CPview history and DiagnosticsView.

Register Here

Check Point Updates

Join us for Check Point: <SECURE> Users and Access

At this premiere event for Securing Users and Access in August 25th, Gil Shwed, CEO & Founder will be joined by security analysts and customers who’ll share insights into securing the "everywhere employee" and the hyper- distributed enterprise. Plus a Cyberpsychology expert will uncover insights in human susceptibility to cybercrime.

CISO's Secrets Podcast: Brendan Staveley, Head of AWS Security Services, Americas

@Grant_Asplund hosts Brendan Staveley, Head of AWS Security Services, Americas on this week's episode.

History, Evolution & Future of Social Engineering

In this webinar on August 3rd, Maya Horowitz, Check Point's VP Research, will take you through some of the most shocking social engineering scams in history, all the way to social engineering in emails, and where it's headed in the near future.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 5 August 2021: BeLux: R81.10 AI &ML Threat Prevention and Security Management
• 10 August 2021: Caribbean: Issue Resolution Best Practices
• 11 August 2021: Americas: Learn about CheckMates, Check Point's Cyber Security Community
• 24 August 2021: Gulf and Africa: CloudGuard Container Security
• 2 September 2021: BeLux: What's New in Check Point's World of Cloud?

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!