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Course Name: Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-l Management III - NG with Application Intelligence Training:
Course Duration: 4 Days
Deployment Option: Onsite Training
Course Price: $3995.00
   

Who Should Attend:
 
Systems administrators, security managers and network engineers implementing VPN-1/FireWall-1 G in an enterprise setting, and individuals seeking the Check Point Certified Security Expert Plus: Enterprise Integration and Troubleshooting (CCSE plus) certification.
 
Prerequisites:
 
Delegates must already have attended the VPN-1/FireWall-1 Management I - NG and VPN-1/FireWall-1 Management II - NG, or equivalent knowledge and experience
 
Course Description:
 
Introduced in February 2002 the advanced VPN-1/FireWall-1 Management III - NG course offers comprehensive training to enhance enterprise knowledge of VPN-1/FireWall-1 Next Generation (NG), addressing network planning, High Availability solutions, and troubleshooting procedures
 
Course Objectives:
 

Delegates attending this course will be able to:

  • Planning a secure network, and identifying risks to a network
  • Implementing VPN-1/FireWall-1 in an enterprise or distributed environment
  • Configuring overlapping VPN Domains
  • Integrating VPN-1/FireWall-1 into an LDAP environment
  • Configuring Multiple Entry Point VPNs
  • Using VPN-1/FireWall-1 debugging tools, and applying protocol analyzers, to capture and view packet information
  • Enhancing the performance of operating systems, to maintain the integrity and security of the enterprise VPN installation
  • Troubleshooting the network installation

In the labs you will gain hands-on experience in:

  • Creating network diagrams and Security Policy outlines
  • Placing security components in a network, and defining proper subset and overlapping VPN Domains
  • Installing VPN-1/FireWall-1 in a distributed environment
  • Converting users from VPN-1/FireWall-1 files to LDAP
  • Configuring MEP VPNs
 
Course Outline:
 

Check Point NG with Application Intelligence - Management III

Identifying Assets

  • Business processes
  • End-to-end security
  • Assets
  • Valuation

Threats, Vulnerabilities and Risks

  • Threats
  • Evaluating risk
  • Qualitative risk analysis
  • Due care and due diligence
  • Reactions to risk

Implementing Safeguards to Mitigate Risk

  • Selecting safeguards
  • Categories of countermeasures
  • Product overview and placement
  • Security-management challenges and solutions

Implementing VPN-1/FireWall-1

  • Probes and DoS attacks
  • Rule Base creation tips
  • VPN-1/FireWall-1 tuning
  • Securing the OS
  • Installing VPN-1/FireWall-1 in a distributed environment

LDAP user management with SmartDashboard

  • Introduction to account management
  • Integrating LDAP with VPN-1/FireWall-1
  • LDAP and user-manager troubleshooting
  • Important debugging tools
  • Integrating Microsoft Active Directory with VPN-1/FireWall-1
  • Configuring groups in LDAP

Management High Availability

  • SmartView Tracker

Overlapping VPN Domains

  • Full and partial overlap, and proper subset

Multiple Entry Point VPNs

  • IP pools
  • MEP restrictions
  • VPN load distribution
  • Configuring Multiple Entry Point gateways

ClusterXL

  • High Availability
  • Load sharing
  • Policy Servers
  • Cluster Control Protocol
  • Analyzing ClusterXL packets
  • ClusterXL state-update mechanism
  • Commands for HA
  • Debugging ClusterXL issues
  • ClusterXL configuration issues

Debugging Tools

  • VPN-1/FireWall-1 debug commands
  • The cpinfo file
  • VPN debugging tools
  • VPN log files
  • VPN commands
  • VPN client debugging tools
  • Known configuration issues
  • Debugging logging

General Troubleshooting Measures

  • Troubleshooting guidelines
  • Acquiring information and files
  • System crashes
  • Using cpinfo

Protocol Analyzers

  • Using snoop to collect information
  • VPN-1/FireWall-1 fw monitor
  • Advanced topics