Check Point Cybersecurity Boot Camp (CCSA+CCSE) Training

New -  Learn basic concepts and develop skills necessary to administer Check Point Next Generation Firewalls. Validate your understanding and skills necessary to configure and optimally manage Check Point Next Generation Firewalls. 

In this five-day bundle course, you will learn the basic concepts and skills necessary to configure Check Point Next Generation Firewalls. During this course, you will configure a security policy and learn about managing and monitoring a secure network, upgrading and configuring a security gateway, and implementing a virtual private network (VPN). You will also learn the advanced concepts and skills necessary to configure Check Point Next Generation Firewalls. During this course, you will configure a security policy and learn about managing and monitoring a secure network, upgrading and configuring a security gateway, and implementing a virtual private network (VPN).

Note: Supported versions R81.10 and previous versions

Is This The Right Course?

• General knowledge of TCP/IP
• Working knowledge of Windows, UNIX, network technology, and the internet

Who Should Attend?

Technical persons who support, install, deploy, or administer Check Point Software Blades, which includes:

• System administrators
• Support analysts
• Security managers
• Network engineers
• Anyone seeking CCSA certification and CCSE certification

• Security Architecture
• Application Control
• Deployment
• Licensing
• Gaia Portal
• Hide/Static NAT
• URL Filtering
• Monitoring States
• IoT
• Traffic Visibility
• Security Events
• Threat Extraction
• Threat Emulation
• Policy Layers
• Browser SmartConsole
• Infinity Threat Protection
• User Access
• System Management
• Automation and Orchestration
• Redundancy
• Acceleration
• SmartEvent
• Mobile and Remote Access
• Threat Prevention

• Know how to perform periodic administrator tasks.
• Describe the basic functions of the Gaia operating system.
• Recognize SmartConsole features, functions, and tools.
• Understand how SmartConsole is used by administrators to give user access.
• Learn how Check Point security solutions and products work and how they protect networks.
• Understand licensing and contract requirements for Check Point security products.
• Describe the essential elements of a Security Policy.
• Understand the Check Point policy layer concept.
• Understand how to enable the Application Control and URL Filtering software.
• Blades to block access to various applications.
• Describe how to configure manual and automatic NAT.
• Identify tools designed to monitor data, determine threats and recognize opportunities for performance improvements.
• Describe different Check Point Threat Prevention solutions for network attacks.
• Articulate how the Intrusion Prevention System is configured, maintained and tuned.
• Understand the Infinity Threat Prevention system.
• Knowledge about Check Point’s IoT Protect.
• Provide an overview of the upgrade service and options available.
• Explain how to perform management upgrade and migration.
• Articulate the process using CPUSE features.
• Articulate the purpose and function of Management High Availability.
• Explain Primary vs Secondary, Active vs Standby and Synchronization.
• Explain disaster recovery steps in case the primary management server becomes unavailable.
• Provide overview of Central Deployment in SmartConsole.
• Articulate an understanding of Security Gateway cluster upgrade methods.
• Explain about Multi Version Cluster (MVC) upgrades.
• Discuss Gaia Commands and how they are used.
• Explain the main processes on s and s.
• Describe how to work with scripts and SmartTasks to configure automatic actions.
• Explain the Management Data Plane Separation (MDPS)
• Explain kernel operations and traffic flow
• Articulate Dynamic and Updatable Objects in Security Gateways
• Explain the policy installation flow and files used.
• Describe the use of policy installation history.
• Explain concurrent and accelerated install policy.
• Describe an overview of APIs and ways to use and authenticate.
• Explain how to make changes in GAIA and management configuration.
• Explain how to install policy using API.
• Explain how the SecureXL acceleration technology enhances and optimizes Security Gateway performance.
• Describe how the CoreXL acceleration technology enhances and improves Security Gateway performance.
• Articulate how utilizing multiple traffic queues can make traffic handling more efficient.
• Discuss Site-to-Site VPN basics, deployment and communities.
• Describe how to analyze and interpret VPN tunnel traffic.
• Explain Link Selection and ISP Redundancy options.
• Explain tunnel management features.
• Discuss Check Point Remote Access solutions and how they differ from each other.
• Describe how client security can be provided by Remote Access .
• Explain authentication methods including machine authentication.
• Explain Multiple Entry Point (MEP)
• Discuss the Mobile Access Software Blade and how it secures communication and data exchange during remote connections.
• Describe Mobile Access deployment options.
• Discuss various features in Mobile Access like Portals, Link Translation, running Native Applications, Reverse Proxy and more.
• Explain basic concepts of Clustering and ClusterXL.
• Explain about Cluster Control Protocol (CCP) and synchronization.
• Describe advanced ClusterXL functions and modes like Load Sharing, Active-Active, VMAC mode etc.
• Discuss Cluster Correction Layer (CCL) to provide connection stickyness.
• Advanced Logs and Monitoring