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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 GO Podcast

We've recently restarted the CheckMates GO Podcast and I've taken over the mic.
You can find out podcast in several podcast directories including iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and SoundCloud!
Here's our most recent episodes for your listening pleasure:

• S02E01: HTTPS Inspection Best Practices 
• S02E02: What's New in R80.40 Security Management
• S02E03: Remote Access Compromises

Community Highlights

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

Software/Service Releases

• R80.30 SmartConsole Build 62
• R80.30 Ongoing JHF 166

Code Hub Discussions

• Using Ansible to Delete an Object 
• API for Setting Malware DNS Trap
• How To List What Applications are in a Category
• Querying Remote Access User Count via API

Other Topics

• RDP Access with Mobile Access Blade: Step By Step
• SmartTasks: Restrict use of Specific Objects in Access Policy
• SMB and Identity Collector
• Domain Export in R80.20 Failed 
• Bash (Expert) CLI Prompt Extensions
• When is Usermode Firewall (USFW) Enabled?
• With Updatable Objects, Do You Still Need Geo Policy?

Upcoming Events

Given the current and evolving situation with Coronavirus, we are planning only virtual events for the time being.
Some events below are still shown as being in-person, but this is subject to change.

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 March 2020: TechTalk: Preventing Malicious Web Downloads at the Speed of Business
• 23 March 2020: CheckMates Live OKC
• 24 March 2020: CheckMates Live Dallas
• 25 March 2020: CheckMates Cyber Range Houston
• 2 April 2020: CheckMates Live Denver
• 15 April 2020: CheckMates Live Vienna

If you would like a (virtual) CheckMates Live event for your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com

Hi CheckMates!

Are you looking for ways to maintain business continuity and keeping your employees secure? Thanks to our not-so-welcomed COVID-19, AKA, Coronavirus, many of us are required to be prepared for secured remote access to corporate resources.

 @Moti , Check Point’s Chief Evangelist, @Jonny, Check Point CISO, and myself gathered for a CheckMates TechTalk special edition on Top Tips for Working Securely From Home using Check Point technology.

Watch the video below for an insightful Q&A with Jony, a quick demo on how to configure Mobile Access Blade, and a step-by-step guide with Shay on how to configure secure remote access including use cases.

Shay Levin

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/Service Releases

• Management as a Service now running R80.40
• R80.20.02 for 1500 Series Appliances
• R80.30 Ongoing JHF 163

R80.40 Discussions

• Support for Installation on Nutanix 
• What's New in R80.40 Security Management TechTalk: Video, Slides, and Q&A 
• DNS Passive Learning Design Question
• SmartTasks: Custom Permissions

SMB Topics

• Connecting an SMB Appliance with a non-SMB Appliance
• Block DNS over HTTPS Providers on SMB

Code Hub Discussions

• Web API and Encrypting Login Credentials
• Remove IPv6 Address from Object
• show-administrator API Call on Non-MDS System

Other Topics

• Migrate On-Premise Management to Management as a Service
• Java Processes on Security Management
• Check State of Power Supply
• tcpdump for Site-to-Site VPN Traffic

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! 

• 12 March 2020:
  • CheckMates Live Paris
  • CheckMates Live Dublin
• 18 March 2020: TechTalk: Preventing Malicious Web Downloads at the Speed of Business
• 20 March 2020: CheckMates Live Athens 
• 23 March 2020: CheckMates Live OKC
• 24 March 2020: CheckMates Live Dallas
• 25 March 2020:
  • CheckMates Live London
  • CheckMates Cyber Range Houston
• 2 April 2020: CheckMates Live Denver
• 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 GA Take 155 

Videos

• R80.40 Unified Security New Features Highlights Part 1 and Part 2 
• Management as a Service Onboarding Video
• CloudGuard IaaS Integration by using AWS VPC Ingress Routing - A to Z Guide 

SMB Topics

• Brief Introduction to SMB Performance Tuning
• Mobile Access Blade on Centrally Managed SMB Platforms
• /fwtmp Usage on Centrally Managed SMB Appliances 

Code Hub Discussions

• How to Change Cluster/Gateway Object Settings via CLI
• Get VPN Users with Email Addresses
• How to Export List of Objects in a Group in CSV Format

Other Topics

• MDS Global IP Search (SmartConsole Extension) 
• Convert Traditional Mode VPN to Simplified Mode VPN in R80.x
• No Connection Logs Data in Reports 

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! 

• 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
• 18 March 2020: TechTalk: Preventing Malicious Web Downloads at the Speed of Business
• 20 March 2020: CheckMates Live Athens 
• 23 March 2020: CheckMates Live OKC
• 25 March 2020: CheckMates Live London
• 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

• R80.20 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 

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

We were at CPX 360 2020 Bangkok, of course, and we'll be in New Orleans and Vienna!

Community Highlights

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

Software/Service Releases

• Management as a Service: Now Available!
• R80.30 JHF Ongoing Take 136
• Check Point Provider on Terraform Officially Live

Useful Code

• ASAtoVSX - Translate your Cisco running config to VSX and more! 
• One-liner to show live CPU usage of all FWK instances of a VS on FWK instances of a VS on VSX 

Other Topics

• Microsoft Forcing LDAPS March 2020
• Anonymizer Exception
• How To Set Up Certificate-Based VPNs, R80.x Edition
• New Podcast: cp<radio>
• Policy Based Routing, R80.30, and NAT
• Installing DOOM on Gaia

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! 

• 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 

New in 2020, you can now earn CPE credits for participating in CheckMates Live events!

CheckMates has a new partnership with the top five vendors of Cyber Security certification organizations. By attending a CheckMates Live event, you can earn a certain number of CPE credits and extend your certification validity.

FAQ:

What is CheckMates Live?

• A CheckMates Live event is a Local User Group seminar.
• CheckMates invites community members, security engineers, administrators, architects and other customers’ and partners’ technical personnel to discuss various technical topics concerning Check Point Security Systems. We engage the participants in a transparent and direct discussion, helping them to master new products and feature. Challenges, dependencies, troubleshooting, and other engineering and architecture subjects are in the focus.
• Check out our upcoming events here!

How many CPE credits will I earn?

• The amount of CPE credits you can earn will differ for each of the CheckMates Live events and will be announced before each of the events.