Having a love-and-hate relationship with Checkpoint firewalls after working for 6 years daily with them I am probably biased :), but will say they are great firewalls once you know to work with them . If you are completely new to it I'd recommend Checkpoint CCSA/CCSE from accredited APT course as the shortest path , Alternatives: - CBT Nuggets CCSA course , but last time I checked it was for NGX R65 that is substantially different from current versions, only if you can get it really cheap - Documentation from Checkpoint site (freely available to everyone) is the start-all end-all source (I did it this way) takes time but in the end you will have a through understanding of the product - Online is a good place once you know the basics. If, on the other hand, you don't know to do manual port-forwarding , Google will only suck your time. But for problems/inconsistencies/debug : http://cpug.org - Independent forum where you can always find advice from many knowledgeable and helpful folks ; http://www.cpshared.com/forums/ Same goes here - people who can configure route-based VPNs with policy-based routing with closed eyes hang around here https://forums.checkpoint.com/ Official support forums from Checkpoint, less active than 2 above
HTH Yuri On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Blake Pfankuch <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > I am just getting into an environment with a large Check > Point deployment and I am looking for a little bit of feedback from other > real world admins. Looking for what people like, what people don't (why > hopefully). Also for those of you who might run Check Point devices in > your environments what to dig into first as far as getting more experience > on the devices and a better understanding of how not to break them. I am > slowly going through all of the official documentation, but would also like > to hear a real world opinion. > > Thanks in advance! > > Blake > -- Taking challenges one by one. http://yurisk.info
