Check Point Security Administration (R80.20 GAiA)

· Check Point's unified approach to network management and its key elements
· Design a distributed environment
· Install the Security Gateway in a distributed environment
· Perform a backup and restore the current Gateway installation from the command line
· Identify critical files needed to purge or backup, import and export users and groups, and add or delete administrators from the command line
· Deploy Gateways using the GAiA web interface
· Create and configure network, host, and gateway objects
· Verify SIC establishment between the Security Management Server and the Gateway using SmartDashboard
· Create a basic Rule Base in SmartDashboard that includes permissions for administrative users, external services, and LAN outbound use
· Configure NAT rules on Web and Gateway servers
· Evaluate existing policies and optimize the rules based on current corporate requirements

· Maintain the Security Management Server with scheduled backups and policy versions to ensure seamless upgrades with minimal downtime
· Use Queries in SmartView Tracker to monitor IPS and common network traffic and trouble-shoot events using packet data
· Use packet data to generate reports, trouble-shoot system and security issues, and ensure network functionality
· Using SmartView Monitor, configure alerts and traffic counters, view a Gateway's sta-tus, monitor suspicious activity rules, analyze tunnel activity and monitor remote user access
· Monitor remote Gateways using SmartUpdate to evaluate the need for upgrades, new installations, and license modifications
· Use SmartUpdate to apply upgrade packages to single or multiple VPN-1 Gateways
· Upgrade and attach product licenses using SmartUpdate
· Centrally manage users to ensure only authenticated users securely access the corporate network either locally or remotely
· Manage users to access the corporate LAN by using external databases
· Use Identity Awareness to provide granular level access to network resources
· Acquire user information used by the Security Gateway to control access
· Define Access Roles for use in an Identity Awareness rule
· Implement Identity Awareness in the Firewall Rule Base
· Configure a pre-shared secret site-to-site VPN with partner sites
· Configure permanent tunnels for remote access to corporate resources
· Configure VPN tunnel sharing, given the difference between host-based, subunit-based and gateway-based tunnels

To ensure the successful completion of Check Point Certified Security Administration we recommend the following:

· Basic knowledge of networking
· Windows Server and/or UNIX skills
· Internet and TCP/IP experience