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: The Truth is in the Middle

PhoneBoy talked with Check Point Product Manager @Yoni_Nave about the evolution from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to Extended Detection and Response (XDR).

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 JHF Ongoing Take 36
• GCP MIG R81.10 - Support East/West Egress/Ingress Traffic in Google Cloud
• Cloud Management Extension (CME) API
• R81.10 Has Sessions for Super Users with "@maas"
• R80.40+ and GNAT: How to Clear the NAT Table?
• Can't Reinstall VPN Client
• What's In an Updatable Object?
• Harmony Endpoint Web Management Portal vs SmartEndpoint
• Upgrade Difference between Major Version and Blink Image

Upcoming TechTalks

Monitoring and analyzing Check Point devices with CPview and DiagnosticsView

In this session, 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: Joe Sullivan, CISO at Cloudflare

@Grant_Asplund and Joe Sullivan have a fun and engaging conversation covering numerous topics including zero trust, the good and bad of the internet, and the challenges securing today's hyper-connected computing environment.

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

• 29 July 2021: Switzerland: Demo Days Harmony Endpoint
• 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
• 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: The Truth is in the Middle

PhoneBoy talked with Check Point Product Manager @Yoni_Nave about the evolution from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to Extended Detection and Response (XDR).

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!

Hot Community Topics

• R80.20.30 for Quantum Spark Appliances
• Harmony Mobile API Documentation
• New Devices Tab on Harmony Mobile Dashboard
• AppSec Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller
• Security Gateway upgrade when Management is Behind the Same Gateway
• Does ClusterXL Active/Active Support More Users
• Throughput Estimation on Open Servers
• Configuring Geo Policies
• Severity and Confidence Levels for Security Incidents on Harmony Endpoint

TechTalks

TechTalks are a regular (at least monthly) 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 have more on the schedule soon, but meanwhile, you can view all the past TechTalks in our archive.

View The Archive

Check Point Updates

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!

CISO Secret S2E3: Ruben Chacon, CISO at CDW

In this week’s episode of CISO’s Secret, Cyber Security Evangelist @Grant_Asplund hosts Ruben Chacon, CISO at CDW. They discuss Cyber Security challenges and best practices at CDW, the provider of technology products and services for business, government and education.

A cyber espionage campaign in the energy sector?

So real it’s scary. Learn more on #CyberTalk. 

PrintNightmare security flaw; the good, the bad and the ugly.

Could this story inspire a modern Wild West movie?

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 22 July 2021: Taiwan: How ML Threat Prevention Helps You Against a Cyber Pandemic

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: What is EDR?

PhoneBoy talked with Check Point Product Manager @Yoni_Nave about What is Endpoint Detection and Response?

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!

Labeling Your Posts

When you start a new thread in the community, take a moment to add one or more relevant labels to your post. If you think one is missing, please let us know!

New Releases

• Quantum R81.10 is GA!
• R80.40 GA JHF Take 118
• R80.40 Ongoing JHF Take 119
• R80.40 SmartConsole Build 424
• R80.30 GA JHF Take 236
• R80.30 Ongoing JHF Take 237
• R80.30 SmartConsole Build 102
• R80.20 GA JHF Take 202
• R80.20 SmartConsole Build 122
• CloudGuard Workload Protection Product Updates
• CloudGuard Expands Multi-Cloud Support with Alibaba Cloud
• SmartMove New Version July 2021 Update 2

Hot Community Topics

• SmartConsole Demo Mode for API Testing
• Web SmartConsole in Demo Mode
• Comparing Policy from Two Management Domains
• Threat Prevention API Quick Demo Guide
• Harmony Connect Corporate Access Tunnel Application Executable
• NAT Before VPN?
• VSX Appliance Upgrade to R80.40 T118

Upcoming TechTalks

Check Point Updates

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!

Are Your Remote Employees 100% Secure?

Remote work is here to stay, and so are the threats to remote users. How do you keep remote users 100% safe? Take this free 5-minute risk assessment to see if you have security gaps.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 22 July 2021: Taiwan: How ML Threat Prevention Helps You Against a Cyber Pandemic

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: What is EDR?

PhoneBoy talked with Check Point Product Manager @Yoni_Nave about What is Endpoint Detection and Response?

Hot Community Topics

• R81 GA JHF Take 29
• SmartMove New Version July 2021
• Updatable Objects for Check Point Services
• It's Not The Firewall
• VSX Tuning Question
• R8x - Performance Tuning Tip - SecureXL Fast Accelerator
• URL Filtering Troubleshooting
• Management Data Plane Separation for Security Gateways
• R81 Geo Policy
• Zero Downtime Upgrade
• Building HomeLab

Upcoming TechTalks

TechTalk Deep Dive: Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec

The Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec solution secures an organization's web applications. AppSec analyzes web transactions with a set of Artificial Intelligence engines that operate in unison to protect against sophisticated attacks. In this Deep Dive webinar, we'll walk you through the process of securing multiple cloud deployments web applications including Kubernetes web workloads, step-by-step! Join us on July 7th!

Register Now (EMEA/APAC)

Register Now (Americas)

Check Point Updates

Are Your Remote Employees 100% Secure?

Remote work is here to stay, and so are the threats to remote users. How do you keep remote users 100% safe? Take this free 5-minute risk assessment to see if you have security gaps.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 22 July 2021: Taiwan: How ML Threat Prevention Helps You Against a Cyber Pandemic

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: A Series of Failures

In April of 2021, PhoneBoy talked with @Tim_Otis and Jon Niccolls from the Check Point Incident Response Team about Ransomware. Since then, things have gotten worse.

Hot Community Topics

• R81 Ongoing JHF Take 34
• R81 SmartConsole Build 552
• R80.10 GA JHF Take 290
• SmartMove June 2021 Update 2
• Share Your CloudGuard Container Workload Protection Story and Enter to Win!
• Deploying Hotfixes from SmartConsole in R80.40+
• Reporting Issues with CPSM Findings
• Access Policy Using MAC Address
• WiFi Vulnerabilities on SMB Appliances
• What Does the R mean in the Firewall Version?

Upcoming TechTalks

TechTalk Deep Dive: Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec

The Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec solution secures an organization's web applications. AppSec analyzes web transactions with a set of Artificial Intelligence engines that operate in unison to protect against sophisticated attacks. In this Deep Dive webinar, we'll walk you through the process of securing multiple cloud deployments web applications including Kubernetes web workloads, step-by-step! Join us on July 7th!

Register Now (EMEA/APAC)

Register Now (Americas)

Check Point Updates

Are Your Remote Employees 100% Secure?

Remote work is here to stay, and so are the threats to remote users. How do you keep remote users 100% safe? Take this free 5-minute risk assessment to see if you have security gaps.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 29 June 2021: UK/Ireland: Lates Check Point Updates
• 1 July 2021:
  • Greece: Zero-Phishing and Autonomous Threat Prevention
  • Adriatics: Issue Resolution Best Practices
  • BeLux: Quantum IoT Protect: Efficient Protection of IoT & OT Devices and Networks

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: A Series of Failures

In April of 2021, PhoneBoy talked with @Tim_Otis and Jon Niccolls from the Check Point Incident Response Team about Ransomware. Since then, things have gotten worse.

Get Notified on Topics That Interest You!

We know you're busy, so wanted to remind you of a couple of community features that help you get notifications of the discussions and topics that interest you the most!

Hot Community Topics

• CloudGuard Workload Protection Public Preview and Upcoming GA Announcement
• Support Policy Update for R80.40 Release
• CloudGuard and Nutanix Deep Dive TechTalk
• SmartMove New Version June 2021
• Identifying Unknown Applications with Application Control
• Enforcing Security Based on Identities
• Comparing Policy from Two Check Point Management Domains
• Issues with ICMP and R80.40 on specific JHF Takes
• Under Some Conditions, "Network Interface" in Gaia WebUI Drops Session
• Route Based VPNs

Upcoming TechTalks

TechTalk Deep Dive: Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec

The Infinity Next CloudGuard AppSec solution secures an organization's web applications. AppSec analyzes web transactions with a set of Artificial Intelligence engines that operate in unison to protect against sophisticated attacks. In this Deep Dive webinar, we'll walk you through the process of securing multiple cloud deployments web applications including Kubernetes web workloads, step-by-step! Join us on July 7th!

Register Now (EMEA/APAC)

Register Now (Americas)

Check Point Updates

It’s official—Amazon Sidewalk is a thing. Super cool or security snake pit?

Learn more on CyberTalk

CIO Mac Avacena shares expert insight that could reshape your business and tech perspectives.

Read his interview

Talking Cloud with Sean McDermott, President & CEO, Founder of RedMonocle

In this episode, Grant Asplund talks with Sean Mcdermott, President & CEO, Founder RedMonocle | Windward Consulting Group. This recording of Talking Cloud is sure to not disappoint! With 24+ years as a consultant, Sean offers several keen insights and considerations.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 22 June 2021: Russia: What's New in R81
• 23 June 2021:
  • France: Harmony, où comment sécuriser les utilisateurs face aux attaques modernes!
  • West US: Learn How to Protect Your Organization with Harmony Endpoint
• 24 June 2021: Adriatics: Issue Resolution Best Practices
• 29 June 2021: UK/Ireland: Lates Check Point Updates
• 1 July 2021:
  • Greece: Zero-Phishing and Autonomous Threat Prevention
  • BeLux: Quantum IoT Protect: Efficient Protection of IoT & OT Devices and Networks

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:

Hot Community Topics

• R81 JHF Ongoing Take 29
• Updatable Objects for Check Point Services
• New Features Admin Guide: Containers Protection
• Harmony Connect App for Windows (now GA)
• AWS Gateway LoadBalancer Deep Dive Webinar
• Get Number of NAT Sessions in R80.30
• How to Renew Internal CA Certificate
• Disable Out-of-State Checks Between Certain Hosts

Upcoming TechTalks

Absolute Zero Trust Cloud Security

Zero Trust is a great security model. However, it is useless without the ability to enforce it. If implemented fully, Zero Trust helps to dramatically decrease an organization’s cybersecurity risk. Together with our guest star @Mark_Ostrowski, we will explore two use cases that include the remote workforce and serverless along with how threat intelligence and visibility overlays the entire model. Register now for our June 9th TechTalk:

Register Now

TechTalk Deep Dive: CloudGuard and Nutanix

CloudGuard network solution is now seamlessly integrated with Nutanix flow via the service chain and provides full micro-segmentation threat prevention coverage of your AHV virtualization environment. In this Deep Dive webinar, we'll walk you through the process of building a secure enterprise scalable topology protected by CloudGuard, going step-by-step through the deployment and configuration process on both Nutanix and CloudGuard. Join us on Jun 15th!

Register Now (EMEA/APAC)

Register Now (Americas)

Check Point Updates

Check Point: <SECURE> Data Center Americas

Join us on June 9th at 9am Pacific for this Americas virtual event, where you’ll gain the insight and practical advice to secure your modern enterprise data center and network. The lineup of sessions and speakers will give you the opportunity to learn about the latest innovations for the hybrid data center and keep you “in the know” so you can keep your organization secure. Agenda can be viewed here.

Check Point Harmony Mobile named in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense

Check Point is proud to be a Representative Vendor in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense, which helps security leaders better understand today's mobile security needs and how they can be effectively addressed to improve the overall security posture. The report explains why Gartner named Check Point a Representative Vendor, twice; for All-Round Mobile Threat Defense Capabilities and also for offering Mobile Security Capabilities as Part of an EPP or UES Offering.

SOCstock

Check Point is sponsoring SOCstock, a free-to-attend, one-day global virtual event from Siemplify and friends which draws inspiration from the iconic 1969 music festival to deliver learning, togetherness and enjoyment. The legendary lineup at SOCstock 2021 is packed with the folks who are tackling the biggest challenges facing the security operations industry with the most moving ideas. All that is missing is you being there with us. 

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 1 June 2021: Southeast US: Performance Optimization Part 3: CoreXL
• 2 June 2021: Swiss CloudTalk #2 – Live discovery and automated remediation of public cloud misconfigurations
• 3 June 2021:
  • Belux: Harmony Browse
  • Canada: Performance Optimization Introduction
• 9 June 2021: Swiss CloudTalk #2 - Live entdecken und automatisiertes Entfernen von Public Cloud Fehlkonfiguration...
• 10 June 2021: Swiss CloudTalk #2 - Live decouverte et remediation automatique des problemes de configurations sur ...
• 15 June 2021: Eastern US: What's New in R81
• 17 June 2021: Caribbean: Maintenance and Upgrades Best Practices
• 22 June 2021: Russia: What's New in R81

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

New Community Events Calendar

We've just launched our new events calendar that contains all of our upcoming user groups and TechTalks. You can easily subscribe to this event calendar to get notified when new events are posted.

Hot Community Topics

• Autonomous Threat Prevention on R80.40 Gateways
• Simple Azure WebApp Demo Environment
• R80.40 Migration Tool is Not Working
• VPN Clients for Linux
• Cluster Down and Policy Installation Failure After Enabling HTTPS Inspection
• Automated Software Package Installation with Ansible
• How to Configure Identity Collector to Parse Syslog Messages from Pulse Secure VPN

Upcoming TechTalks

Absolute Zero Trust Cloud Security

Zero Trust is a great security model. However, it is useless without the ability to enforce it. If implemented fully, Zero Trust helps to dramatically decrease an organization’s cybersecurity risk. Together with our guest star @Mark_Ostrowski, we will explore two use cases that include the remote workforce and serverless along with how threat intelligence and visibility overlays the entire model. Register now for our June 9th TechTalk:

Register Now

Check Point Updates

Check Point: <SECURE> Data Center Americas

Join us on June 9th at 9am Pacific for this Americas virtual event, where you’ll gain the insight and practical advice to secure your modern enterprise data center and network. The lineup of sessions and speakers will give you the opportunity to learn about the latest innovations for the hybrid data center and keep you “in the know” so you can keep your organization secure. Agenda can be viewed here.

Check Point Harmony Mobile named in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense

Check Point is proud to be a Representative Vendor in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense, which helps security leaders better understand today's mobile security needs and how they can be effectively addressed to improve the overall security posture. The report explains why Gartner named Check Point a Representative Vendor, twice; for All-Round Mobile Threat Defense Capabilities and also for offering Mobile Security Capabilities as Part of an EPP or UES Offering.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 25 May 2021: Russia: Maintenance and Upgrades Best Practices
• 27 May 2021:
  • Adriatics: What's New with R81
  • South Central US: Remote Access and SASE
• 28 May 2021:
  • Taiwan: Become a Cyber Hero!
  • Hong Kong: Performance Optimization Part 1
• 1 June 2021: Southeast US: Performance Optimization Part 3: CoreXL
• 2 June 2021: Swiss CloudTalk #2 – Live discovery and automated remediation of public cloud misconfigurations
• 3 June 2021:
  • Belux: Harmony Browse
  • Canada: Performance Optimization Introduction
• 9 June 2021: Swiss CloudTalk #2 - Live entdecken und automatisiertes Entfernen von Public Cloud Fehlkonfiguration...
• 10 June 2021: Swiss CloudTalk #2 - Live decouverte et remediation automatique des problemes de configurations sur ...
• 15 June 2021: Eastern US: What's New in R81
• 17 June 2021: Caribbean: Maintenance and Upgrades Best Practices
• 22 June 2021: Russia: What's New in R81

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: MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation Part 2

Part 2 of our conversation with Product Manager Yoni Nave about Check Point's participation in the recent MITRE Engenuity Enterprise Attack Evaluation 2020, the excellent results Check Point received, and why it matters.

Hot Community Topics

@Magnus-Holmberg created a few new How-To Videos for your pleasure:

• How to change shell to bash
• How to keep Interface Name from Changing in SNMP
• How to change number of SND cores in VSX

Other Topics include:

• MITRE ATT&CK Extension
• MITRE ATT&CK Extension TechTalk: Video, Slides, and Q&A
• Recommended Status of R81
• Downgrading to R80.20 from R80.40
• SNX from Docker on Linux
• Setting up First Line Support to issue Client Certificates 
• Standby VS Can't Reach Internal DNS or Internet
• Using curl_cli for Management API Commands

Upcoming TechTalks

AWS Gateway LoadBalancer Deep Dive

CloudGuard Network Security is now seamlessly integrated with the GWLB & Geneve encapsulation. In this Deep Dive webinar, @Shay_Levin will walk you through the process of building a secure enterprise scalable topology protected by CloudGuard step-by-step. Register now for:

• Europe/APAC: 19th May at 10am CET
• Americas: 20th May at Noon EDT

Check Point Updates

Check Point: <SECURE> Data Center Americas

Join us on June 9th at 9am Pacific for this Americas virtual event, where you’ll gain the insight and practical advice to secure your modern enterprise data center and network. The lineup of sessions and speakers will give you the opportunity to learn about the latest innovations for the hybrid data center and keep you “in the know” so you can keep your organization secure. Agenda can be viewed here.

Check Point Harmony Mobile named in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense

Check Point is proud to be a Representative Vendor in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense, which helps security leaders better understand today's mobile security needs and how they can be effectively addressed to improve the overall security posture. The report explains why Gartner named Check Point a Representative Vendor, twice; for All-Round Mobile Threat Defense Capabilities and also for offering Mobile Security Capabilities as Part of an EPP or UES Offering.

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 20 May 2021:
  • Thailand: What's New with R81
  • India: Check Point Approach to Workforce Security
  • Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 4: Clustering and Hyperscale
• 25 May 2021: Russia: Maintenance and Upgrades Best Practices
• 27 May 2021:
  • Adriatics: What's New with R81
  • South Central US: Remote Access and SASE
• 28 May 2021:
  • Taiwan: Become a Cyber Hero!
  • Hong Kong: Performance Optimization Part 1
• 1 June 2021: Southeast US: Performance Optimization Part 3: CoreXL
• 3 June 2021: Belux: Harmony Browse

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:

On May the 4th, CheckMates will bring you a community-wide virtual event that will bring clarity to the cloud with special guests sharing their insights and inspiring you to Secure Your Everything…in the cloud and elsewhere.

Our Agenda:

• Ask Me Anything with Dr. Dorit Dor, Vice President of Products, and Gil Shwed, Founder & CEO
• Upcoming Product Releases! First look at Securing Containers with TJ Gonen, Head of Cloud Product, and Erez Yarkoni, Head of Cloud Sales
• Live Demo with Shay Levin, Technical Community Manager
• Preventing Cloud-Based Attacks with Dan Wiley, Head of Threat Management and Chief Security Advisor

Register Now!

Hot Community Topics

• R81.10 Early Availability (Now Public EA)
• R80.40 JHF GA Take 102
• R80.40 SmartConsole Build 423
• R80.10 End of Support Policy Update
• CPX 360 2021 Wrap-Up: Video, Slides, and Q&A
• Updatable Object for Check Point Services
• Adding Multiple Cluster Interfaces on Different Subnets via API
• Secondary Management Server Resets to Active
• Terraform How-to Guide
• Dual ISP and SIC
• Hand-Edited Files to Check After Gateway Upgrade or Fresh Install

Upcoming TechTalks

MITRE ATT&CK – from a CVE to a meaningful technique used by the attacker, first in the industry!

In this session on May 12th, we will review the new MITRE ATT&CK extension for IPS & Anti-Bot and we will give the CheckMates community the opportunity to use the extension before it is released as a public GA!

Check Point Updates

Secure DevOps Access to Cloud Workloads 

Join us on April 27^th to learn how Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) can help you easily secure access to production environments for DevOps and administrators with cloud-native capabilities like PAM-as-a-service, automated server onboarding (AWS) and dynamic tag-based management.

• Americas
• EMEA/APAC

As The Cyber World Turns: A Strategy to Increase Security Efficiency

Slowed economic growth and the push to secure systems from supply chain attacks underscores the importance of a unified security architecture that increases security efficiency. Join security evangelist Grant Asplund on April 28 as he shares the building blocks for putting in place a consolidation strategy that increases security efficiency with the Infinity platform. Register now:

• North America
• EMEA/APAC

Upcoming CheckMates Live Events

• 27 April 2021: Russia: CloudGuard for NSX Security Best Practices
• 6 May 2021:
  • Belux: Harmony Connect Internet Access
  • Mid-Atlantic/Federal US: Identity Awareness Best Practices
• 11 May 2021:
  • DACH: Performance Optimization Part 3, CoreXL
  • Western US: War Stories, Tips, and Tricks from Incident Response
• 12 May 2021: Netherlands: New Frequently Asked Security Questions
• 13 May 2021: North Central US: APIs, Scripts, and Automation – Oh My!
• 20 May 2021: Iberia: Performance Optimization Part 4: Clustering and Hyperscale

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