London: Leveraging the R80.10 API to Automate and Streamline Security Operations

[PhoneBoy]

We invite you to join us at our offices in Moor Place, London, on Tuesday 19th September at 2:00pm for our Check Point User Group meeting. This session will be hosted by Dameon Welch Abernathy aka PhoneBoy and will be an informative session on leveraging the R80.10 API to automate and streamline security operations.

Agenda

• Provide an introduction to using the R80.10 APIs using a variety of tools from Postman to Ansible
• Share tips on leveraging the API from both the R80.10 CLI and from the RESTful API to do simple tasks from adding objects and services to adding rules
• Describe additional use cases for using other features in the R80 API from policy verification to running scripts on gateways
• Demonstrate a complete Check Point cloud auto-scaling environment using Ansible and the R80.10 APIs

Dameon is a recognised industry security veteran, with over two decades of experience. He is best known for his creation of the PhoneBoy FireWall-1 FAQ in the mid-1990s. It was used by Check Point and thousands of its customers worldwide. He is also the author of Essential Check Point FireWall-1 NG: An Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Guide . A well-known author in the blog sphere, he is a trusted security authority.