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Check Point Resources

CPUG:  The Check Point User Group:

CPUG  CPUG's Official Site
CPUG University  CCSA/CCSE Dual-Certification Course and Other Check Point Training Courses in San Francisco
CPUG CON  The Annual CPUG User Conference

About Check Point:

Check Point  Check Point's Official Site
Check Point  On Wikipedia
Check Point Exams Non-Disclosure Agreement
NGX Utilities Including Web Visualization Tool

Other Firewall Organizations:

Virtual Private Network Consortium  The international trade association for manufacturers in the VPN market
The Center for Internet Security  A not-for-profit organization that helps enterprises reduce the risk of business and e-commerce disruptions resulting from inadequate technical security controls and provides enterprises with resources for measuring information security status and making rational security investment decisions

HowTos:

HowTo:  Migrate From A Single Gateway to Distributed Deployment
HowTo:  Integrate Check Point Firewall-1/VPN-1 With Microsoft Active Directory
HowTo:  Check Point Rule Cleanup White Paper by FirePAC
Synchronizing Time on Security Gateways
SPLAT on VMware
Identifying HFA Versions

Utilities:

Object Filler 2.4 by Martin Hoz.  The Famous Object Filler and Object Dumper tools. (MD5: 013B1B7A5EE24DB33212951E08D539BE)

Blogs:

Tobias Lachmann's Blog
Kellman Meghu's Blog
Yuri's Blog

Useful Scripts:

SPLAT Backup Script
SPLAT Configuration Summary Script
Useful Script for grabbing all configuration information and running upgrade_export

Sites Maintained By Users:

CPrules Firewall Rulebase Viewer from Peter-Paul Worm in the Netherlands
Check Point Best Practices from Knowurtech.com
SDDelta Shows SmartDefense Changes Over Time, by Lebbeous Weekley at Hurricane Labs
Check Point Documents by wumozhe
Fireverse  Documentation and Discussions on Check Point products
Temet Information Security  Very good section on Firewall-1, by Bob Snowdale of Orlando, Florida
Snake Oil Research  Lots of useful Check Point information from Adam Barton
Check Point Notes and Videos (In English and Polish) by Wanoper
AERAsec in Germany Information about Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1
Netl33ts: Checkpoint Some good articles about Firewall-1/VPN-1
Check Point Visio Stencil

Helpful Utilities:

VPN Guard  Automate re-logons for SNX after connect time expiresCPrules Firewall Rulebase Viewer
FWdoc  a free vendor-independent standard of storing firewall ruleset configurations
Nipper: Open Source Network Information Parser
Athena Firewall Grader (Free Trial)

Documents:

fw monitor:
    "How To" document
    Some more explanation from Check Point

Reasons Why We're Not Currently Dating Anyone:

When Data Center Cabling Becomes Art  at Royal Pingdom
RateMyNetworkDiagram vote on the "look" of a network diagram
Really Bad Wiring Jobs at Dark Roasted Blend
Cable Messes at Vibrant.com
The World's Densest Internet Meet-Me Room from Wired Magazine
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