Check Point Security Engineering Training in Berkeley, California

Lessons

• Perform a backup of a Security Gateway and Management Server using your understanding of the differences between backups, snapshots and update-exports
• Upgrade and troubleshoot a Management Server using a database migration
• Upgrade and troubleshoot a clustered Security Gateway deployment
• Use knowledge of Security Gateway infrastructures, chain modules, packet flow and kernel tables to perform debugs on firewall processes
• Build, test, and troubleshoot a ClusterXL Load Sharing deployment on an enterprise network
• Build, test, and troubleshoot a ClusterXL High Availability deployment on an enterprise network
• Build, test, and troubleshoot a management HA deployment on an enterprise network
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot SecureXL and CoreXL
• acceleration solutions on the corporate network traffic to ensure noted performance enhancement
• Using an external user database (such as LDAP), configure User Directory to incorporate user information for authentication services on the network
• Manage internal and external user access to resources for remote access or across a VPN
• Troubleshoot user access issues found when implementing Identity Awareness
• Troubleshoot a site-to-site or certificate-based VPN on a corporate gateway using IKE View, VPN log files, and command-line debug tools
• Optimize VPN performance and availability by using link selection and multiple entry point solutions
• Manage and test corporate VPN tunnels to allow for greater monitoring and scalability with multiple tunnels defined in a community, including other VPN providers
• Create events (or use existing event definitions) to generate reports on specific network traffic using SmartReporter and SmartEvent to provide industry-compliance information to management
• Troubleshoot report generation given command-line tools and debug-file information

Labs

• Lab 1: Upgrade to Check Point R77
• Lab 2: Core CLI elements of firewall administration
• Lab 3: Migrate to a clustering solution
• Lab 4: Configure SmartDashboard to interface with Active Directory
• Lab 5: Configure site-to-site VPNS with third-party certificates
• Lab 6: Remote access with Endpoint Security VPN
• Lab 7: SmartEvent and SmartReporter