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Cloud security is arguably the hottest topic today. To help you navigate the vast and turbulent sea of cloud security, we introduce a new space at CheckMates: Cloud Security Posture Advisory.

Do not miss the first article in this space:  AWS - Secure Your Cloud - Ensure no security groups allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to SSH (TCP:22), with a new How-To video for the matter.

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 are the threads to watch from the last week:

Product Updates

• Endpoint/SandBlast Agent E82.00 Early Availability for macOS Catalina
• SmartConsole R80.20 Build 88 
• New Blink Image for R80.30 GA Take 200 + JHF Take 111 

Code Hub

• Coming in R80.40 Management: Batch Objects Commands 
• Limiting API Calls

Remote Access

• Remote Access from Linux CentOS
• Check Point VPN with Microsoft Two-Factor Authentication

Other Topics

• Pull Text from a Managed Gateway Using Established Trust (SIC) 
• R80.30 Packet Flow
• Disabling Physical Interfaces in VSX
• Where Do I Find the Exported Excel Files from SmartView? 

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 

At the moment, we are planning for events in 2020 and preparing for the upcoming CPX 360 events where @_Val_, @Shay_Levin, and I will be! 

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)

Welcome Shay!

@Shay_Levin has just joined the CheckMates team! Among many other initiatives, he'll be doing local user groups in the Asia-Pacific region. 

Community Highlights

Here are the threads to watch from the last week:

Product Updates

• R80.20 JHF Ongoing Take 127
• R80.30 JHF GA Take 111

Code Hub Discussions

• R80.40 API v1.6 Changelog
• Mass Modification of all User Accounts Expiration Dates

Other Topics

• SmartConsole Undo Changes Without Discarding Session 
• Replace Upgrade Cluster
• UserCheck Block Page Content Change
• R80.x Performance Tuning Tip: Elephant Flows (Heavy Connections)
• HTTP Blocked, but HTTPS Allowed Even Though Log Says Reject
• Asynchronous Fragments on a Firewall in Bridge Mode 
• What's Wrong With My Regex to Block C2 Traffic?

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks:

• 11th December 2019: CheckMates Cyber Range in Denver with @PhoneBoy 
• 12th December 2019: 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)

Check Point for Beginners

We made a few changes to the landing page for our Check Point for Beginners section, which will hopefully make it easier to find the content you're looking for. Your feedback is definitely appreciated! More content will be coming in 2020 as well.

Community Highlights

Here are the threads to watch from the last week:

• R80.30 Jumbo Hotfix New Ongoing Take 111
• Endpoint Security/SandBlast Agent E82.10 
• URL Filtering versus Anti-Virus versus Anti-Bot
• Impact of Rulebase Size on Gateway Performance
• R80.30 with 3.10 Kernel on VMware Servers 
• SmartView and Custom Actions
• Endpoint Security VPN Only on Company-Owned Devices
• /30 and /26 to ISP Without a Router 
• HTTPS Inspection Documentation for R80.30
• Jumbo Hotfix Accumulators, Jumbo Hotfixes, Takes, Keeping it Straight 
• Managing SMB Devices and Fetching Policy with SmartLSM

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks:

• 2nd December 2019: CheckMates Live Omaha with @PhoneBoy 
• 3rd December 2019:
  • CheckMates Live Des Moines with @PhoneBoy 
  • CheckMates Live Dusseldorf with @Val_Loukine 
• 4th December 2019: CheckMates Live Kansas City with @PhoneBoy 
• 5th December 2019: CheckMates Live Springfield with @PhoneBoy 
• 6th December 2019: CheckMates Live St. Louis with @PhoneBoy
• 12th December 2019: CheckMates Live Paris with @Val_Loukine 

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 Planning for 2020 in Prague

@_Val_, @Amit_Sharon, @Moti, and I were getting together with our ambassadors to plan some European events for 2020!

CheckMates in London

Later in the week, Val and I did an event with Itamar Golan talking about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning:

Community Highlights

Here are the threads to watch from the last week:

Software Releases

• SmartConsole R80.30 Build 36
• R80.30 JHF Ongoing Take 107
• R80.10 JHF Ongoing Take 249
• Endpoint Security / SandBlast Agent E82.00 Early Availability for macOS 

Other Topics

• Wrong Policy Installed on a Gateway
• Publishing a Service with Multiple DNS Records Associated with a Single Public IP 
• Compliance Blade Overview and How To Get More Out Of It
• Site to Site VPN -- Encryption Domain Issue
• L2TP over IPsec Linux VPN with R80.30 
• Mid-Side Appliances Cannot Be Managed Locally When Configured with SSD 
• Failover Between Different Hardware with cphacu
• Office 365 HTTPS Inspection Bypass 

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks:

• 2nd December 2019: CheckMates Live Omaha with @PhoneBoy 
• 3rd December 2019:
  • CheckMates Live Des Moines with @PhoneBoy 
  • CheckMates Live Dusseldorf with @Val_Loukine 
• 4th December 2019: CheckMates Live Kansas City with @PhoneBoy 
• 5th December 2019: CheckMates Live Springfield with @PhoneBoy 
• 6th December 2019: CheckMates Live St. Louis with @PhoneBoy
• 12th December 2019: CheckMates Live Paris with @_Val_ 

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 in Atlanta

@Adam_Forester did a hands-on session on the R80.x APIs in Atlanta!

Community Highlights

Here are the threads to watch from the last week:

Linux VPN Clients

• Strongswan and R80.30
• Libreswan and R80.30

Logs and Reporting

• Unable to Filter on ssh_version_2 Service 
• VLAN Consumption Report

Other Topics

• Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator: Did You Know?
• 1500 SMB Appliances and Watchtower: TechTalk and Q&A
• R80.20 SmartConsole Installation Error
• Security Management Server Not Running After Migration
• How to Fully Accelerate SIP RTP Streams Using SecureXL

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks:

• 20th November 2019: CheckMates Live Bangalore
• 21st November 2019: CheckMates Live London with @Val_Loukine AND @PhoneBoy 
• 22nd November 2019: CheckMates Live Mumbai
• 2nd December 2019: CheckMates Live Omaha with @PhoneBoy 
• 3rd December 2019:
  • CheckMates Live Des Moines with @PhoneBoy 
  • CheckMates Live Dusseldorf with @_Val_ 
• 4th December 2019: CheckMates Live Kansas City with @PhoneBoy 
• 5th December 2019: CheckMates Live Springfield with @PhoneBoy 
• 6th December 2019: CheckMates Live St. Louis with @PhoneBoy

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

Check Point CEO @Gil_Shwed and VP of Products, Dr. @Dorit_Dor have answered your questions in a series of short videos, posted below!

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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 Champions in Israel

We flew our 2019 CheckMates Champions out to Tel Aviv for some meetings with Check Point R&D and some fun in Eilat! Congratulations once again to @HeikoAnkenbrand  @G_W_Albrecht  @Timothy_Hall  @Vladimir  @Wolfgang  @Evgeniy_Olkov  @Danny  @Maarten_Sjouw ! 

Community Highlights

Here are the threads to watch from the last week:

New Releases

• GAIA API 1.3 is now GA 
• SmartConsole R80.10 Build 154

Automation

• GAIA API Failing to Install with Ansible 
• Adding Network Object With mgmt_cli Batch CSV File Not Working in R80.20 

CloudGuard

• VMware Tools Not Installed After Upgrading to R80.20 JHF 118
• Migrate CloudGuard IaaS R80.10 Standalone to R80.30

Other Topics

• R80.30 Take 273 versus Take 300
• Traffic Accepted by Implied Rule
• Drops on Interface with High CPU
• Log Exporter and Elasticsearch

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks:

• 12th November 2019: CheckMates Live Finland
• 14th November 2019: CheckMates Live Romania
• 20th November 2019: CheckMates Live Bangalore
• 21st November 2019: CheckMates Live London with @Val_Loukine AND @PhoneBoy 
• 2nd December 2019: CheckMates Live Omaha with @PhoneBoy 
• 3rd December 2019: CheckMates Live Des Moines with @PhoneBoy 
• 4th December 2019: CheckMates Live Kansas City with @PhoneBoy 
• 5th December 2019: CheckMates Live Springfield with @PhoneBoy 
• 6th December 2019: CheckMates Live St. Louis with @PhoneBoy

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, Bulgarian Style

@_Val_ and I did a private CheckMates event for DXC and AT&T in Sofia, Bulgaria.
We had quite the turnout (over 100 people!):

Community Highlights

Here are the threads to watch from the past week:

Code Hub

• R80.20 API for IPS Protections 
• Ubiquiti Unifi and Check Point Integration 

IPS

• Different IPS Behavior with R80.30 Management
• IPS Exception Not Working

Management

• Change Control
• SmartConsole Opens in Standby Mode When Gateway Fails Over To Backup (Full HA) 

Other Topcs

• Top 20 Gateway Tuning Tips
• Best Practice: How Often To Patch/Upgrade Your Gateways? 
• fw monitor Segfaults
• SandBlast Agent and Symantec Co-Existence
• Elephant Flows 

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks:

• 1st November 2019: CheckMates Live Sydney
• 12th November 2019: CheckMates Live Finland
• 14th November 2019: CheckMates Live Romania
• 21st November 2019: CheckMates Live London with @_Val_ AND @PhoneBoy 
• 2nd December 2019: CheckMates Live Omaha with @PhoneBoy 
• 3rd December 2019: CheckMates Live Des Moines with @PhoneBoy 
• 4th December 2019: CheckMates Live Kansas City with @PhoneBoy 
• 5th December 2019: CheckMates Live Springfield with @PhoneBoy 
• 6th December 2019: CheckMates Live St. Louis with @PhoneBoy

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 are the threads to watch from the past week:

New Releases

• R80.10 JHF 245 (Ongoing Take)
• R80.20 JHF 118 (Ongoing Take)
• SmartConsole R80.20 Build 81
• CloudGuard IaaS Cloud Management Extension Take 66

New Videos

• 1500 Series Appliance Unboxing
• Performance Test of HTTPS Inspection and Content Awareness
• Automating Security Operations with the Check Point APIs TechTalk: Video, Q&A, and Slides

Upgrade to R80.x

• Flowchart for Performing Minor Upgrades
• Convert Traditional VPN Policies in R77.x to Simplified Mode Before Upgrading to R80.x 
• RSA SecurID and Upgrading to R80.30 from R77.30
• VPN Issues After Migration from R77.30 to R80.30 

Other Topics

• Can Outbound SSH Be Secured?
• Service Object -- Match for Any
• SNI vs HTTPS Inspection
• Stateful Inspection Explained

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks:

• 1st November 2019: CheckMates Live Sydney
• 12th November 2019: CheckMates Live Finland
• 14th November 2019: CheckMates Live Romainia
• 2nd December 2019: CheckMates Live Omaha with @PhoneBoy 
• 3rd December 2019: CheckMates Live Des Moines with @PhoneBoy 
• 4th December 2019: CheckMates Live Kansas City with @PhoneBoy 
• 5th December 2019: CheckMates Live Springfield with @PhoneBoy 
• 6th December 2019: CheckMates Live St. Louis with @PhoneBoy

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