As part of our First Birthday celebration, we are having an awards ceremony.

For awards, you need categories and voting!

Over the course of this week, we will share some of the categories and solicit nominations for said categories.

Find the complete list of categories here: CheckMates First Birthday Celebration! 

This category is specific to, well, members like you!

This is similar to the https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2018/05/10/nomination-for-checkmate...‌ nomination, but someone who "helps out" more than originates useful material on their own. 

Think of it like the "Best Supporting Actor" role in the Oscars 

Nominations

To nominate someone, please send the following information in email to [email protected]:

• The name of the person you are nominating, which can NOT be:
  • A Check Point employee
  • Yourself (i.e. someone else must nominate you)
• A link to their CheckMates Profile
• A short paragraph why you are nominating them

Voting

Voting is now open for this and other categories in our birthday celebration!

We will take your votes until 25th May 2018 @ 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. 

A vote will enter you into a raffle for a Check Point 1490 Appliance!

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Community Highlights

Here are the top threads from the past week:

https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2018/05/08/checkmates-first-birthda... 

We're having a party, but some of you are getting the presents (prizes)! Find out more here!

Mobile Access Reporting 

Some good suggestions here if you're stuck.

How to properly logoff web api session without leaving session open 

The advice applies both to using mgmt_cli and directly calling the R80.x API.

SCV Enforcement Per Gateway (Not Global) 

There are other ways to do SCV enforcement with Mobile Access Blade.

Detach from Cluster... in R80.10 

This feature was removed in R80, you'll have to delete the cluster member and recreate it.

IPS Protections in Detect (Staging) State 

How to make the best use of this new feature in R80.10 to manage IPS protections more effectively.

Scheduled FTP transfer NOT working 

You might need to slightly modify your backup scripts when you upgrade to R80.10.

Upcoming Events

Here's what's coming up in the next few weeks:

• 24th May 2018: Geneva: Best Practices for Check Point Security 
• 31st May 2018: Local CPX National Harbor (CheckMates will be there!)
• Week 11th June: place/date TBD

As part of our First Birthday celebration, we are having an awards ceremony.

For awards, you need categories and voting!

Over the course of this week, we will share some of the categories and solicit nominations for said categories.

Find the complete list of categories here: CheckMates First Birthday Celebration! 

This category is an easy one: What's your favorite post on CheckMates and why?

Instructions:

• Please send a link to your favorite post on CheckMates via email to [email protected].
• The post cannot be:
  • From Developers (Code Hub)‌, which has a specific award: What's the Best Code Hub Contribution of the Year?‌
  • From a Check Point Employee

Voting

Voting is now open for this and other categories in our birthday celebration!

We will take your votes until 25th May 2018 @ 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. 

A vote will enter you into a raffle for a Check Point 1490 Appliance!

As part of our First Birthday celebration, we are having an awards ceremony.

For awards, you need categories and voting!

Over the course of this week, we will share some of the categories and solicit nominations for said categories.

Find the complete list of categories here: CheckMates First Birthday Celebration! 

This category is specific to, well, members like you!

Specifically, who is your favorite and why?

Nominations

To nominate someone, please send the following information in email to [email protected]:

• The name of the person you are nominating, which can NOT be:
  • A Check Point employee
  • Yourself (i.e. someone else must nominate you)
• A link to their CheckMates Profile
• A short paragraph why you are nominating them

Voting

Voting is now open for this and other categories in our birthday celebration!

We will take your votes until 25th May 2018 @ 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. 

Prizes

• The Member of the Year will receive a trip to our headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel to meet face-to-face with our R&D team!
• Everyone who votes will be entered into a raffle to win a Check Point 1490 Appliance!

CheckMates has turned a year old and we're having a party! 

We definitely want to celebrate with all of you as we couldn't have done this without you!

We had an "Oscars"-like ceremony and a couple of cool videos with Check Point CEO Gil Shwed and VP of Products Dr. Dorit Dor!

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Ask Us Anything with Gil Shwed and Dorit Dor

We record two short video with Gil Shwed and Dr. Dorit Dor answering some of your questions!

Video Link : 6474

Video Link : 6475

LOOKING FOR MORE ANSWERS? Take a look here....

While we could not answer every question you asked in video form, we wrote answers to a representative sample of your questions here:

CheckMates First Birthday: Ask Us Anything‌

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What CheckMates Content and People are The Best of the Best?

Video Link : 6473

Categories include:

• Nominations for Check Point Infinity Implementation of the Year‌
• What is your Check Point Idea of the Year?‌
• Nominations for Check Point Infinity Feature of the Year 
• What's the Best Code Hub Contribution of the Year?‌
• https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2018/05/10/nomination-for-checkmate... 
• https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2018/05/10/checkmates-post-of-the-y... 
• https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2018/05/14/nomination-for-checkmate... 

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What is CheckMates?

If you've never used CheckMates before, here's a brief explanation:

Video Link : 6151

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Past and future posts will be available here: About CheckMates

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• LinkedIn: Check Point CheckMates

Community Highlights

Here are the top threads from the past week:

R80.10 - Where Used object 

The way this works is different in R80.x versus R77.x.

Creating VSX Virtual Systems using REST API  

While not formally part of the R80.x API, there is a way to use the API to do it.

Tip of the Day: Local R80.x API Documentation 

Speaking of the API, if you have access to your management station, you always have the documentation for the API available. 

Issues Restoring Gaia Backup in R80.10 JHF 70, 79, 85, 91 

A good reason to upgrade to JHF 103, which is now GA! ‌

GAiA WebUI not working with latest Chrome browser 

With an updated fix...and it's even in the SK now

Pablos Holman: Inside The Mind of a Hacker (Excerpt) 

This was one of the best talks we had at CPX360, and we finally made the video available! The above is an excerpt and contains a link to the full video.

Difference between HTTPS Inspection and Categorize HTTPS websites settings

This has been covered on CheckMates before, but it comes up with new members.

Can someone advise the way to get future Release Notifications automatically? 

Yes, you can

https://community.checkpoint.com/docs/DOC-2894-introduction-to-restful-apis-and-json-format 

If you've never used REST APIs before, here's a nice introduction along with how it translates to mgmt_cli.

Upcoming Events

Here's what's coming up in the next few weeks:

• 24^th May 2018: Geneva: Best Practices for Check Point Security 
• Week 11th June: @New England area (vote on the following thread where: ‌)

It seems crazy, but it's been a year since we started CheckMates. 

And yes, we are going to have a party to celebrate.

As part of this, we are going to give out a few awards, Oscars style, with a video to announce the winners with special guests.

During my last visit to Israel, I sat with Amit Sharon‌ and Moti Sagey‌ and we came up with a couple of categories that we will solicit nominations for:

• Post of the Year
• Member of the Year
• Check Point Feature of the Year

I would love to get additional ideas from the community for award categories.

Think of it as an RFC (Request for Categories)

From among the submissions, which should occur as comments to this post, we will choose a few to include in our list above.

Next week, we will begin soliciting for nominations in each category.

Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!

Past and future posts will be available here: About CheckMates

To have these updates show up in your preferred RSS reader add the following URL: About CheckMates RSS Feed 

See also our social media accounts:

• Twitter: @CPCheckMates
• Facebook: Check Point CheckMates
• LinkedIn: Check Point CheckMates

CheckMates Returns to Atlanta

This week Vicky Broadwater‌ and I did an event in Atlanta. She did the "bring your own malware" part, I talked about the R80.10 API:

Oh yeah, and I autographed a few of Tim Hall‌'s books as well:

The next CheckMates event I am doing is in Geneva in late May!

More details here: Geneva: Best Practices for Check Point Security‌

Community Highlights

Meanwhile, here are the top threads from the past week:

Check Point R80.20 Production and Public EA 

All the details are here!

Deploying Auto Scaling CloudGuard gateways in Azure using VM Scale Sets 

Useful guide as you start deploying CloudGuard gateways in Azure.

Adding an interface in ClusterXL High Availability 

It's an older thread, but it came up in another thread as someone asked the best way to change interface topology on a cluster object.

Mass Modify Log Server of All Gateways (replace, add, remove) - MDS/SMS - 80.10 api 

You don't generally need to modify the log server of a bunch of gateways, but when you do... 

GAiA WebUI not working with latest Chrome browser 

Something changed in the recent Chrome and Firefox builds. Workaround is listed in this thread.

HTTPS inspection real life examples and caveats in R77.30 

Some real-world experience with this feature documented.

MLM Performance Optimization 

Some tips from the community here

SecureXL is enabled, but the traffic is not accelerated  

HTTPS Inspection is definitely a culprit here

Compatible HFs on top of R77.30 Jumbo HFA 

If you install non-jumbo hotfixes, be aware they may not be compatible with the most recent jumbo hotfix!

Installing Checkpoint Gaia  R80.10 in Dell Poweredge R440 

Not every Open Server is supported. Always check before you buy!

Upcoming Events

Here's what's coming up in the next few weeks:

• 24^th May 2018: Geneva: Best Practices for Check Point Security 

Hello,

I do not like some strange auto-generated username - Serged7631f0d-a6fd-4106-8d02-849f1cfd08dd

I seem to recall registering with my real name and then trying to get forum name as my truncated first name - Serg

I noticed this Jive cloud instance is using OKTA for identity and SSO. We are using OKTA in our company as well. It this auto generated user-name has something to do with this?

Regards,

Sergej

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CheckMates Events in Canada

This week, I was in the Great White North doing the "Migrate to R80.10" talk, which has been very popular!

Peter Stack‌ claimed he could have filled more than a couple rooms in Toronto--may have to take him up on that in the future

Someone even brought me an old Check Point CD to autograph. I had signed it before, too!

Meanwhile, we did a smaller, more intimate event in Calgary:

Next week, I'll be in Atlanta! 

If you haven't already signed up for the event: Atlanta: Check Point R80 API and Bring Your Own Malware 

Community Highlights

Meanwhile, here are the top threads from the past week:

CPAPI - Web API Tool 

A sample web portal that leverages the R80.x APIs to create objects and rules.

Upgrade 1470 to 1490 

Yes, you can do this!

How to check the access list in Check Point via CLI 

Covers both R77.30 and R80.10

Best Practice: Skype for Business (Lync) with(out) QoS 

Do you use Skype for Business with or without QoS? Weigh in!

https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/7523-management-server-internet-facing 

Should you or should you not expose your management server to the Internet?

Upcoming Events

Here's what's coming up in the next few weeks:

• 25^th April 2018: How to Prevent the Next Global Attack with IPS‌ 
• 25^th April 2018: Cleveland CheckMates: Endpoint Security Lab and Happy Hour  
• 26^th April 2018: Atlanta: Check Point R80 API and Bring Your Own Malware 
• 24^th May 2018: Geneva: Best Practices for Check Point Security