I have been working with this product since the Lacoon days. Check Point acquired Lacoon in mid-2015, and released a rebranded agent that was meh. The new agent design is a complete shift, and provides a lot of interesting information
On a whim, I went and took the new R80.10 CCSA exam today. A few months ago I had to sit through about three days of labs and content for the course. The course material is pretty good (although having
Check Point published their response to Meltdown and Spectre: SK122205 Check Point’s take on these so far is that they are of low relevance due to the nature of the attacks: local privilege escalation. A patch may be in the
Worked on an update for R80.10. The gateways were fine. The Security Manager Server kicked out the following error: “Error: Failed to Connect to the GAIA Server” Uhhh…right as it was uninstalling some previous packages…
If you have Check Point’s Capsule Docs, you will see the following error during the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: SK119676 provides a link to a newer standalone Capsule Docs version that
You have probably seen a lot in the news about the Kaspersky shakeup. I have had more than one customer ask me if it is possible to remove the Kaspersky elements from their Check Point architecture. The answer is ‘yes’
As you probably expected, NONE of the Check Point products (600 / 700 / 1100 / 1400) are vulnerable to KRACK. Check Point Response to KRACK Attacks: sk120938 *yawn*
You realize you just lost hours of lab work on an error that is not documented in any SK articles… …and that a Jumbo will not fix either… …because
I have been playing with products from Yubikey and OnlyKey the past few days. I have always been a big fan of using Check Point certificates for firewall administration, and the weak link is the passphrase. Tried to make a
R80.10 is now GA (General Availability). There is a long list of enhancements, but the largest one is probably the fact that for the first time R80 is now available for the gateway with significant performance enhancements. The overall list of