Update: Check Point Upgrade Diagrams V4…

Updated the Upgrade Diagrams on Oct 9th 2012 to reflect the following changes:

Included R75.45 and R75.40VS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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R75.45 is GA

 

 

 

Apparently R75.45 was posted for GA download on Friday Oct. 5th. This is great news as it is mainly a “bugfix” release. Wish I would have known it came out on Friday, as I was installing a newer R75.40 MDS appliance that night. I will be upgrading two MDSs and two [...]

R75.40 Virtual Systems Download and Documents Available

Searching the Check Point Support Center on “Virtual Systems” turns up older documents and downloads. However searching on “R75.40VS” will will bring up the results for R75 Virtual Systems. Looks like sk76540 is the solution ID for the new portal where all the documentation and downloads have been posted (as of July 17th):

 

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Update: Check Point Upgrade Diagrams…

I left Check Point (after seven years) to work with another security related company and now I am back (although as a consultant). The original “Upgrade Diagrams” were published in the spring of 2011, and had over 10,000 downloads. Having spent the past year working with large enterprises in the Midwest region, I have found [...]

Exporting the MDG Objects into CSV

This is a quick video on a tool tucked into the Provider-1/MDM MDG. It allows you to export all of the objects from the ‘Network Objects’ view in the MDG, and then view them in Excel.

 

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Tufin Security Suite 6.0 Released Today

Tufin Software is releasing their latest version 6.0 today. If you have not seen this tool in a while, you will be impressed with all of the enhancements. SecureTrack has become a “must have” for anyone managing a medium large firewall environment, or an environment with multiple vendors. It supports Check Point, Cisco (ASA/PIX and [...]

R71.40 is GA

From the Release Notes:

 

What’s New in R71.40

Upgrade from R70.40 directly to R71.40

Security Management

IPS improvements SmartEvent enhancements. Increase pattern granularity – Header rejection, HTTP worm catcher and Cifs worm catcher patterns were converted into separate protections, giving more granularity in their settings. This feature is installed during the first IPS update [...]

R71.40 is Public EA

Some interesting new enhancements (from the notes):

Security Management

IPS improvements SmartEvent enhancements Increase pattern granularity – Header rejection, Http worm catcher and Cifs worm catcher patterns were converted into separate protections, giving more granularity in their settings. This feature is installed during the first IPS update process (online update, offline update or scheduled update). [...]

R75.10 is GA

I will update my diagrams tonight….

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R70 R71 R75 Upgrade Path Diagrams

I am constantly receiving questions about how to move to a particular build. It usually requires reading a half a dozen release notes. I simplified this process by doing the research for you and creating some diagrams. These diagrams show migration paths from versions as early as R60 and includes links to the official release [...]