Technical Sessions
These are "Groups", not "Tracks". You can choose to
attend whichever Technical Sessions you wish, from any group. As we get closer to the conference, we'll specify time
blocks for these sessions.
Group 1: Firewall-1/VPN-1 Under The Hood
Group 2: Technical Presentations By OPSEC Partners
Group 3: How To Deal With Your Work And Regulatory Environment
Group 4: How To Deal With Check Point
Group 5: We Help Each Other Out
Group 1: Firewall-1/VPN-1 Under The Hood:
___101: Live! Zero Interruption Upgrade From R62 /
IPSO 4.1 To R65 / IPSO 4.2
| "A Live Demonstration Migrating A Nokia VRRP
Cluster Without Any Disruption Of Already Established
Connections" Using live equipment and live
connections, Yasushi will do a complete OS and
Firewall-1/VPN-1 upgrade on a Nokia VRRP cluster, all
the while maintaining uninterrupted connectivity,
including existing connections. Not even Check
Point's documentation provides all the details on how to
successfully complete this task. All attendees
will receive a detailed checklist to follow along and to
bring home.
Presenter:
Yasushi Kono, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, Senior Technical
Consultant at
ComputerLinks GmbH in
Dreieich, Germany, the biggest CheckPoint Partner in Europe On
the
CPUG discussion board, he is "Yasushi
Kono" |
___102: Networking Essentials For Firewall Administrators
| "What You Need to Know Before the Packets Flow" This session will be a fast one hour review of the most
important underlying networking essentials for firewall
administrators, including:
- Networking Protocols
- IP Protocols
- The OSI Seven-Layer Networking Model
- TCP And UDP
- IP Addresses, Subnet Masks and Routing
- Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
- Putting It All Together
Even experienced administrators will find this
refresher tutorial useful. This talk has been
extremely popular with advanced Check Point students. Fill in the missing
gaps in your skillset!
Presenter:
Barry Stiefel, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, President of
CPUG and owner of
Information
Engine, Inc. in San Francisco On the
CPUG
discussion board, he is "BarryStiefel" |
___103: Integrating Active Directory with
Firewall-1/VPN-1
| "A Detailed Under-The-Hood Demonstration"
Reducing the count of user databases and moving towards
Single Sign On (SSO) is a goal in many organizations.
Firewall-1/VPN-1 allows integration with your existing
Active Directory / LDAP servers.
Yasushi will do the complete process from start to
finish, including the tricky (and undocumented in the
official courseware) process of extended the Active
Directory schema via LDAP-SSL prior to integrating LDAP
into your Secure Virtual Network.
Presenter:
Yasushi Kono, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, Senior Technical
Consultant at
ComputerLinks GmbH in
Dreieich, Germany, the biggest CheckPoint Partner in Europe On
the
CPUG discussion board, he is "Yasushi
Kono" |
___104: NAT For Newbies (And Not So Newbies)
| "All About NAT" Most network and
firewall administrators learn about Network Address
Translation (NAT) by having the secrets passed down to
them as part of the oral folklore of the IT Global Village.
This session will thoroughly explore the world of NAT,
including:
- What is NAT?
- When Would I Use NAT, and Why?
- Security
Implications of NAT
- Hide Mode NAT vs. Static Mode NAT
- Automatic Rule Creation vs. Manual Rule Creation
- Special Issues Including Routing and ARP
- Putting It All Together
Even experienced administrators will find this
refresher tutorial useful. Fill in the missing
gaps in your skillset!
Presenter:
Barry Stiefel, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, President of
CPUG and owner of
Information
Engine, Inc. in San Francisco On the
CPUG
discussion board, he is "BarryStiefel" |
___105: Integrating RSA SecurID Into Your Check Point
Environment
| "Why Re-Invent The Wheel?" Yasushi
will discuss the common problems and issues and step
through the process. Use your Firewall-1/VPN-1
Security Gateways as SecurID clients!
Presenter:
Yasushi Kono, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, Senior Technical
Consultant at
ComputerLinks GmbH in
Dreieich, Germany, the biggest CheckPoint Partner in Europe On
the
CPUG discussion board, he is "Yasushi
Kono" |
___106: Tutorial And Demonstration On The New Disaster
Recovery Features In Firewall-1/VPN-1
| "Five Strong Choices For Disaster Recovery"
After years of complaints about the limited Disaster
Recovery options in Firewall-1/VPN-1, Check Point
recently rolled out many robust and useful tools for
making reliable backups. In this tutorial and
demonstration, see them in action, including:
- Policy Package Management
- Database Revision Control
- Upgrade_Export/Upgrade_Import
- Backup/Restore
- Snapshot/Revert
Presenter:
Barry Stiefel, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, President of
CPUG and owner of
Information
Engine, Inc. in San Francisco On the
CPUG
discussion board, he is "BarryStiefel" |
___107: Working with UTM-1 Edge clusters in Centrally
Managed Environments
| "Configuration, Maintenance, Real World
Practice and VPN Networking with UTM-1 Edge Boxes."
An insightful view about the possibilities working with
UTM-1 Edge boxes in large setups, including "Do's and
Don'ts", common issues and how to troubleshoot them, even
in HA-configurations. This will be a strong
overview about when to go for an UTM-1 Edge and when to
consider another solution.
Presenter:
Danny Trommer, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+/CPSC, Senior
IT-Security Engineer and Chief Check Point technician at
Electronic Service Center,
in Halle (Saale), Germany. On the
CPUG
discussion board, he is "dantro". |
___108: Check Point and Security Operations Management
___109: Under-The-Hood With SecureClient
| "What Not To Do With SecureClient" Common
mistakes, accidents and vulnerabilities that are
potentially available through extending your security
perimeter. A little bit BlackHattish, and
hopefully not too terrifying...
Presenter:
Robert Mitchell,
CCSE+, owner and CEO of
PureSecurity
Pty Ltd, a Check Point focused Security Consultancy
and MSP in Sydney, Australia. On the
CPUG
discussion board, he is "Thorpuse". |
___110: How To Configure and Use DShield
___111: Firewall-1 Order Of Operations
___112: Connectra and Check Point’s SSL VPN solution – Up Close and
Personal
___113: All About Check Point Integrity
___114: How To Manage Very Large Rulebases
___116: How To Get The Most Out Of Check Point Logging
___117: When Firewall-1/VPN-1 Isn’t Enough: Why And How To
Upgrade to Provider-1
___118: Special Topics For Large Configurations And High
Traffic Loads
___119: Current Topics With VoIP
___120: Web Intelligence
___121: Current Issues In SmartDefense
___122: Upgrading Firewall-1/VPN-1
Group 2: Technical Presentations By OPSEC Partners:
Serious, technical, under-the-hood lectures and demonstrations
geared towards end-users. Not a sales or marketing
presentation.
Please contact Barry Stiefel ("Stee-ful") at 1-415-543-5222 or
bjstiefel <(at)> CPUG <(dot)> org to discuss the opportunities here.
___201: Resilience and Integrated High Availability:
A Look Behind The Scenes
| "Resilience and Integrated High
Availability: A Look Behind The Scenes" Every good
theatrical production has a host of people behind the
scenes working to make sure things go just right.
Resilience iHA appliances are no exception. In
this session we'll look behind the scenes of a
Resilience iHA appliance and find the hard working
components that make Resilience firewall appliances the
best high availability solutions in the industry. Presenter:
Lora Price,
Resilience Corporation |
Group 3: How To Deal With Your Work And Regulatory Environment:
___301: How To Deal With Compliance
Requirements: SAS 70, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, HIPAA, Others
___302: New Check Point Tools For Regulatory Compliance
Reporting
Group 4: How To Deal With Check Point:
___401: A Guided Tour Through The Check
Point Price List
___402: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Check Point
Licensing
___403: A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Check Point Technical
Support Services
___404: Inside Check Point Software Training And
Certifications
___406: The New Check Point CCMA
Certification And Training And Certification Q&A
___407: Check Point Road MapGroup 5: We Help Each Other Out:
___501: Community Discussion: Ask
The Experts
___502: Community Discussion: Challenges And
Opportunities In Our IT Security Careers
| "Improving Our Careers" As a group,
we'll discuss career paths and opportunities in the
Check Point / Firewall / IT Security space.
Specifically, we'll look at questions like:
1. How valuable are Check Point certifications?
2. What other certifications or skills best
complement being a Check Point specialist?
3. How big is the risk of off-shoring, and what
can we do individually to protect ourselves?
4. How is this career going to change in the
future, and how can we be ready for it?
5. What works and what doesn't in terms of career
advancement in this field?
Presenter:
Barry Stiefel, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, President of
CPUG and owner of
Information
Engine, Inc. in San Francisco On the
CPUG
discussion board, he is "BarryStiefel" |
___503: Community Discussion:
Tell Us About Your Network
| "Network Show-and-Tell" 1. Which
Check Point products are you using? Which work?
Which don't?
2. What else have you got going on in your
network?
3. What are the special issues you're facing now?
4. What are your upgrade plans? Presenter:
Barry Stiefel, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, President of
CPUG and owner of
Information
Engine, Inc. in San Francisco On the
CPUG
discussion board, he is "BarryStiefel" |
___504: Community Discussions: Birds Of A Feather
| "Request-Generated Break-Out Groups"
We'll post a sign-up sheet for attendees to request
specific break-out groups. During this session
we'll split up and meet with fellow attendees with the
same interests and issues. |
___505: Community Discussion: We
Collaboratively Prepare Our List Of Requests For Features
And Improvements
| "Users Provide Feedback to Check Point" This will be the final General Session of the
conference. As a group, we will collaboratively
compile our list of how we'd like to see Check Point
better meet the needs of its customers and end-users.
From product stability to technical support, from
features to training and certification, here's our
chance to present our wish list to Check Point in a
unified voice. At the end of the conference, CPUG
will deliver the list to Check Point CEO Gil Schwed.
Presenter:
Barry Stiefel, CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+, President of
CPUG and owner of
Information
Engine, Inc. in San Francisco On the
CPUG
discussion board, he is "BarryStiefel" |
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