Check Point Certified Security Administrator CCSA

Course Overview

• Know how to perform periodic administrator tasks
• Describe the basic functions of the Gaia operating system
• Recognize SmartConsole features, functions, and tools
• Understand how SmartConsole is used by administrators to give user access
• Learn how Check Point security solutions and products work and how they protect networks
• Understand licensing and contract requirements for Check Point security products
• Describe the essential elements of a Security Policy
• Understand the Check Point policy layer concept
• Understand how to enable the Application Control and URL Filtering software
• Blades to block access to various applications
• Describe how to configure manual and automatic NAT
• Identify tools designed to monitor data, determine threats and recognize opportunities for performance improvements
• Describe different Check Point Threat Prevention solutions for network attacks
• Articulate how the Intrusion Prevention System is configured, maintained and tuned
• Understand the Infinity Threat Prevention system
• Knowledge about Check Point's IoT Protect 

Exercises

• Configure the Security Management Server
• Use the WebUI to run the First Time Wizard
• Install the Smart Console
• Install the Alpha Gateway using the network detailed in the course topology
• Demonstrate how the Security Management Server and Gateway communicate
• Test SIC Status
• Create multiple administrators and apply different roles and permissions for simultaneous administration
• Validate existing licenses for products installed on the network
• Create and configure host, network and group objects
• Create a simplified Security Policy
• Demonstrate how to use Security Zones in policy
• Demonstrate how to share a layer between Security Polices
• Configure Network Address Translation for server and network objects
• Enable Identity Awareness
• Deploy user access roles for more granular control of the security Policy
• Generate network Traffic and use traffic visibility tools to monitor the data
• Use SmartConsole and SmartView Monitor to view status, alerts, and block suspicious traffic

Prerequisites

• General knowledge of TCP/IP
• Working knowledge of Windows and/or UNIX
• Working knowledge of network technology
• Working knowledge of the Internet