Security Courses:
Check Point Certified Security Administration NGX-I Training Course

Check Point Security NGX I is an introductory course for Check Point's flagship product, VPN-1/FireWall-1 NGX. This comprehensive course is intended to provide an understanding of basic concepts and skills necessary to install and configure VPN-1/FireWall-1 NGX and provides hands-on training in the management of a VPN-1/FireWall-1 NGX installation. Delegates will gain hands-on experience as they install, design and implement various corporate security policies for Firewall-1.

Delegates attending this course will be able to:

• Manage network security with VPN-1 NGX.
• Create rules and modify a Security Policy's properties.
• Use Private IP-Address allocation and unregistered internal addressing schemes, to overcome IP addressing limitations.
• Protect organizations from known network attacks and entire categories of emerging or unknown attacks, using SmartDefense.
• Use monitoring tools to track, monitor, and account for all connections logged by Check Point components.
• Configure NGX to allow VoIP traffic to pass through a corporate Security Gateway.
• Verify the identity of users logging in to NGX, using NGX authentication schemes.
• Implement LDAP and integrate it with NGX SmartCentre Server.
• Back up critical files and directories, for availability and timely recovery of Security Gateways and SmartCentre Servers.

This course meets the requirements for the Check Point Security Administrator (CCSA) NGX Certification. A separate examination is available for those delegates who wish to have a formal qualification.

Delegates should be able to use basic Internet tools, i.e. Web browsers, FTP and Telnet. They should have a system level knowledge of Microsoft NT operating system and should be able to manipulate files and directories and manage processes. Knowledge of TCP/IP is also necessary.

Topics covered on the 2 day Check Point Certified Security Administration NGX-I course

Topics Covered

• VPN-1 NGX Overview.
• The Security Policy
• Network Address Translation
• SmartDefense & Storm Centre
• Monitoring Traffic and Connections.
• Authentication
• LDAP User Management with SmartDirectory.
• Encryption & Virtual Private Networks
• Disaster Recovery - Backups and Updates.

   (excl.VAT)

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