Binary Avenue Academy

By taking this course, you will learn how to install, set up, and maintain Check Point Security Gateway and Management Software Blade systems on the GAiA operating system.

Introduction to Check Point Architecture

- Identify the basic functions of the Web UI.

- Understand the key elements of Check Point’s unified, 3-tiered architecture.

- Learn about firewalls and how they control network traffic.

- Recognize features, functions, and tools of SmartConsole.

- Understand Check Point deployment options.

Security Policy Management

- Learn how traffic inspection works in a unified security policy.

- Understand how admin roles and permissions help in managing policies.

- Create multiple admin profiles with different roles/permissions.

- Create and configure network, host, and gateway objects.

- Apply policy layers and analyze their impact on traffic inspection.

- Prepare and schedule backups for the gateway.

Traffic Visibility

- Identify tools for monitoring data, detecting threats, and improving performance.

- Generate network traffic and use tools to monitor it.

- Compare different tools available for viewing traffic.

Basic Concepts of VPN

- Understand VPN deployments and Check Point Communities.

- Configure and deploy a site-to-site VPN.

- Test the VPN connection and analyze the tunnel traffic.

Managing User Access

- Define users and user groups for your environment.

- Manage user access for internal users and guests.

Working with ClusterXL

- Understand the concept and advantages of ClusterXL technology.

- Install and configure ClusterXL for High Availability.