Product Description

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.

* Packed full with extensive coverage of features new to the product, allowing 3rd party partners to certify NGX add-on products quickly
* Protect your network from both internal and external threats and learn to recognize future threats
* All yuou need to securly and efficiently deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain Check Point NXG

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153464 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Customer Reviews

ClusterXL and HA missing?
Having not read the book yet and only skimmed through it I found it strange not to see any references to these two important features (ClusterXL and Management High Availability).
For this I would have to warn people against using this book as a sole reference or study guide.
This is significant also because these are real exam topics. Besides being important considerations in the upgrade considerations and procedures.

not going to set the world on fire with this one...
Having been using checkpoint for many years now, I just bought this as quick start overview of the new version of cp...

At times it does read like "please give us a job checkpoint" or a checkpoint infomerical/ sales presentation....yawn yawn yawn...

For someone new to the product its ok, but dont take it as gospel everything will work as it does in the book.....some of the examples arent very real world......

A solid introduction to NGX
Make no mistake, NGX is a huge product. It's become pretty difficult for one book to cover all of it in depth. What this book does do though is give the reader a solid introduction to the product and the new features added since previous releases.
On the whole it feels pretty well written and laid out. I found the FAQ and summary sections at the end of each chapter to be much more useful and informative than the average certification book for example. The instructions on how to setup & configure NGX are also less 'hand-holding' than such books, a more relaxed approach which I personally preffer.

However, if you want to use this book to prepare for the CCSA and/or CCSE exams you'll need as much hands-on as possible so it pays to continually reference the product when working through the chapters, ideally using the evaluation software on Smart Platform and paying particular attention to Check Point's exam objectives.

On the whole then, 4/5 for this book. Certain sections felt a little 'light' or lacking in depth, possibly due to the size of the product. An example being Chapter 11 on VPN's. The obligatory spelling grammar & spelling mistakes don't really spoil it and the technical accuracy seems pretty good.