The Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) R80 certification validates the candidate’s capability to install, configure, and maintain Check Point Security Gateway and Management Software Blade systems on the GAiA operating system.

The skills and knowledge that Check Point Certified Security Administrator should know are:

• Install the security 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

  
  

This course will include the following objectives:

• Introduction to Check Point Architecture

  • Identify the basic functions of the Web UI.

  • Create and confirm admin users for the network.

  • Install and tour the GUI.

  • Describe the key elements of Check Point’s unified, 3-tiered architecture.

  • Interpret the concept of a firewall and understand the mechanisms used for controlling network traffic.

  • Recognize SmartConsole features, functions, and tools.

  • Understand Check Point deployment options.

  
  

• Security Policy Management

  • Understand how traffic inspection takes place in a unified security policy.

  • Summarize how administration roles and permissions assist in managing policy.

  • Recall how to implement Check Point backup techniques.

  • Create multiple administrators and apply different roles/permissions for concurrent administration.

  • Create and configure network, host and gateway objects

  • Apply policy layers and analyze how they affect traffic inspection.

  • Prepare and schedule backups for the gateway

• Check Point Security Solutions and Licensing

  • Recognize Check Point security solutions & products and the way they protect your network.

  • Evaluate and manage different Check Point security solutions deployed for network access control.

  • Validate existing licenses for products installed on your network.

  
  

• Traffic Visibility

  • Identify tools designed to monitor data, determine threats, and recognize opportunities for performance improvements.

  • Generate network traffic and use traffic visibility tools to monitor the data.

  • Compare and contrast various tools available for viewing traffic

    
    

• Basic Concepts of VPN

  • Understand VPN deployments and Check Point Communities.

  • Configure and deploy a site-to-site VPN.

  • Test the VPN connection and analyze the tunnel traffic

  
  

• Managing User Access

  • Recognize how to define users and user groups for your environment.

  • Understand how to manage user access for internal users and guests.

    
    

• Working with ClusterXL

  • Describing the basic concept of ClusterXL technology and its advantages.

  • Install and configure ClusterXL with a High Availability configuration.

    
    

• Administrator Task Implementation Unified Gateway

  • Understanding how to perform periodic administrator tasks as specified in administrator job descriptions

  • Reviewing rule-based performance for policy control.