Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE) R82

Course Code: CP-CCSE

This course provides students with the advanced knowledge, skills, and hands-on experience needed to deploy, manage, and monitor existing Quantum Security Environments. Students will learn how to deploy Management High Availability, provide advanced policy management, configure Site-to-Site VPN, provide advanced security monitoring, upgrade a Security Gateway, use Central Deployment tool to install hotfixes, perform an import of a Primary Security Management Server and Deploy ElasticXL Cluster.

  • Duration: 3 Days
  • Level: Expert
  • Technology: Check Point Security
  • Delivery Method: ILT/VILT
  • Training Credits: IGS

This course is intended for Security Engineers, Security Analysts, Security Consultants and Security Architects.

Before attending this course, delegates must have base knowledge of the following:

- Unix-like and/or Windows OS

- Internet Fundamentals

- Networking Fundamentals

- Networking Security

- System Administration

- TCP/IP Networking

- Text Editors in Unix-like OS

- Minimum of 6-months of practical experience with the management of a Quantum Security

- Environment.

Check Point Courses:

- Check Point Certified Security Administrator (required)

- Check Point Deployment Administrator (suggested)

After completing this course, delegates will be able to:

- Learn to configure and manage advanced settings on Check Point Security Gateways.

- Implement clustering for high availability and load balancing.

- Master the process of upgrading Security Gateways and Management Servers.

- Troubleshoot issues related to upgrades and system performance.

- Configure, manage, and troubleshoot VPNs for both internal and external networks.

- Optimize VPN performance and ensure secure connectivity.

- Implement and maintain security acceleration technologies like SecureXL and CoreXL.

- Analyze and improve gateway performance using diagnostic tools.

- Perform backups and restores of Security Gateways and Management Servers.

- Understand disaster recovery strategies and best practices.

- Refine and optimize security policies for complex environments.

- Use advanced rulebase features to enhance security posture.

- Utilize SmartView Tracker and SmartLog for real-time monitoring and analysis.

- Generate and interpret security reports for auditing and compliance.

This course prepares delegates for the Check Point Certified Security Engineering #156-315.82 exam.

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Modules

- Explain the purpose of Management High Availability.

- Identify the essential elements of Management High Availability.

Lab Exercises

- Deploy and Configure Management High Availability

- Ensure the failover process functions as expected

- Identify ways to enhance the Security Policy with more object types.

- Create dynamic objects to make policy updatable from the Gateway. 

- Manually define NAT rules.

- Configure Security Management behind NAT.

Lab Exercises

- Use Updatable Objects

- Configure Network Address Translation for server and network objects

- Configure Management behind NAT for Branch Office connections

- Discuss site-to-site VPN basics, deployment, and communities.

- Describe how to analyze and interpret VPN tunnel traffic.

- Articulate how pre-shared keys and certificates can be configured to authenticate with third-party and externally managed VPN Gateways.

- Explain Link Selection and ISP Redundancy options.

- Explain tunnel management features.

Lab Exercise

- Configure Site-to-Site VPN with internally managed

- Security Gateways

- Describe the SmartEvent and Compliance Blade solutions, including their purpose and use.

Lab Exercise

- Configure a SmartEvent Server to monitor relevant patterns and events

- Demonstrate how to configure Events and Alerts in SmartEvent

- Demonstrate how to run specific SmartEvent reports

- Activate Compliance Blade

- Demonstrate Security Best Practice settings and alerts

- Demonstrate Regulatory Requirements Compliance Scores

- Identify supported upgrade options.

Lab Task

- Upgrade a Security Gateway

- Use Central Deployment tool to install Hotfixes

- Export/import a Management Database.

- Upgrade a Security Management Server by freshly

- deploying the new release or using a new appliance.

Lab Exercise

- Prepare to perform an Advanced Upgrade with Database

- Migration on the Primary Security Management Server in a distributed environment

- Perform an import of a Primary Security Management Server in a distributed Check Point environment

- Describe the ElasticXL Cluster solution, including its purpose and use.

Lab Exercise

- Deploy an ElasticXL Security Gateway Cluster