Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1

By Robert StephensSimon DesmeulesBarry J. Stiefel, et al.

Book Overview

Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1 is the next major release of Check Point's flagship firewall software product, which has over 750,000 registered users. The most significant changes to this release are in the areas of Route Based VPN, Directional VPN, Link Selection & Tunnel Management, Multiple Entry Points, Route Injection Mechanism, Wire Mode, and SecurePlatform Pro. Many of the new features focus on how to configure and manage Dynamic Routing rules, which are essential to keeping an enterprise network both available *and* secure. Demand for this book will be strong because Check Point is requiring all of its 3rd party developers to certify their products for this release. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597490318
• ISBN13: 9781597490313
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Syngress Publishing
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

THE BULLETPROOF FIREWALL!!

Are you getting ready to take your Check Point certification exam? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Robert Stephens, Barry Stiefel, Stephen Watkins, Simon Desmeules and Eli Faskha, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that is the perfect reference for anyone migrating from earlier versions of Check Point's flagship firewall/VPN product; as well as, those deploying VPN-1/FireWall-1 for the first time...

All the new NGX features

Any familiar with prior versions of Check Point's firewall program and newcomers to CheckPoint alike will find CONFIGURING CHECK POINT NGX VPN-1/FIREWALL-1 an important overview of all the new features in NGX. From working with the SmartView Tracker tool and understanding how a Check Point VPN-1 Pro Gateway administrator evolves to work into network security to handling authentication and integrity issues globally, everything...

Good Reference Book

'Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1' by Robert Stephens is another good book by Syngress for IT Professionals. Syngress has really focussed on IT setup and configuration for it's latest releases of books and they have done a solid job. Packing over 600 pages of material into this guide, if you use Checkpoint at your job, you would be wise to pick up a copy of this book for your desk at work. ***** RECOMMENDED

Near the official courseware

This book is written by many respected authors and security professionals. Among them there is Barry J. Stiefel, the man who founded the first Check Point User Group (www.cpug.org). I'm a Check Point Certified Instructor (CCSI) and can assure this book covers a lot of topics included in official Check Point VPN-1 NGX coursewares. On Chapter 13 about Check Point VPN clients solutions it includes a Integrity technology discussion,...