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Check Point Certified Security Administrator skills that you should learn?

Check Point Certified Security Administrator  who must have The skills and knowledge:

• Install R80 management and a security gateway in a distributed environment
• Configure objects, rules, and settings to define a security policy
• Work with multiple concurrent administrators and define permission profiles
• Configure a Virtual Private Network and work with Check Point clustering
• Perform periodic administrator tasks as specified in administrator job descriptions

• Describe Check Point’s unified approach to network management and its key elements
• Design a distributed environment
• Install the Security Gateway in a distributed environment
• Perform a backup and restore the current Gateway installation from the command line
• Identify critical files needed to purge (or backup), import and export users and
• groups, and add (or delete) administrators from the command line
• Deploy Gateways using the Gaia web interface
• Create and configure network, host, and gateway objects
• Verify SIC establishment between the Security Management Server and the Gateway using SmartDashboard
• Create a basicRule Base in SmartDashboard that includes permissions for administrative users, external services, and LAN outbound use
• Configure NAT rules on Web and Gateway servers
• Evaluate existing policies and optimize the rules based on corporate requirements
• Maintain the Security Management Server with scheduled backups and policy versions to ensure seamless upgrades with minimal downtime
• Use Queries in SmartView Tracker to monitor IPS and common network traffic and troubleshoot events using packet data
• Use packet data to generate reports, troubleshoot system and security issues, and ensure network functionality
• Using SmartView Monitor, configure alerts and traffic counters, view a
• Gateway’s status, monitor suspicious activity rules, analyze tunnel activity, and monitor remote user access
• Monitor remote gateways using SmartUpdate to evaluate the need for upgrades, new installations, and license modifications
• Use SmartUpdate to apply upgrade packages to single or multiple VPN-1Gateways
• Upgrade and attach product licenses using SmartUpdate
• Centrally manage users to ensure only authenticated users securely access the corporate network either locally or remotely
• Manage users to access the corporate LAN by using external databases
• Use Identity Awareness to provide granula- level access to network resources
• Acquire user information used by the Security Gateway to control access
• Define access roles for use in an Identity Awareness rule
• Implement Identity Awareness in the Firewall Rule Base
• Configure a pre-shared secret site-to-site VPN with partner sites
• Configure permanent tunnels for remote access to corporate resources
• Configure VPN tunnel sharing, given the difference between host-based,
• subunit-based, and gateway- based tunnels
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