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How to Export Palo Alto Networks Firewall Configuration to a Spreadsheet

Rohit Singla describes how to export Palo Alto configurations into a spreadsheet.

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Comparing indeni and Check Point’s SmartView Monitor

The summary: Check Point’s SmartView Monitor is great as a basic tool for identifying the operational health of your firewalls. However, if your…

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How to Troubleshoot Check Point Firewall VPN Connection

Johnathan Browall Nordström provides some quick tips on how to troubleshoot a VPN tunnel where at least one side is a Check Point firewall.…

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Vulnerabilities from SWEET32 in F5 Load Balancers Reveal

How to Mitigate Vulnerabilities from SWEET32 in F5 Load Balancers The SWEET32 vulnerability is targeting long lived SSL sessions using Triple DES in CBC…

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Predictive Analytics and the Future of IT

In this world of infinite connectivity we are using data more and more to make sense of our environments. One such technology being incorporated into…

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Announcing 5.4: New rule engine, Check Point 61000/41000 support

Welcome 5.4! In this release we’ve included phase one of our infrastructure operations platform, added new content and as well as Check Point 41k/61k…

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Why does infrastructure operations still suck?

Last Friday, I met with an individual that leads a 300-person team, responsible for running the networking and computing infrastructure in 50 data centers…

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What We’ve Learned From Speaking With Our Customers

A month ago I shared some of our plans for 2016 and mentioned that I’d be speaking with our customers, asking them a few questions. The survey was very…

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How to Configure a VPN for DAIP Gateway Connected to Internet Using USB 3G-Modem

Find detailed steps required to configure and troubleshoot a VPN for the DAIP gateway connected to the Internet using USB…

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2016: A Year Of New Opportunities

Welcome to 2016! By now you’ve probably read all of the vendors’ “predictions” for 2016, are done with the holiday celebrations and are ready to…

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Using cURL to Monitor Check Point VSX Firewalls

Find detailed steps required to create scripts, increase VSX visibility, understand the resulting output, create…

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Check Point Firewall Guide Performance Optimization: The Dual Default Gateway Problem

The following excerpt from Timothy C. Hall’s latest book “Max Power: Check Point Firewall Performance Optimization” describes the Dual Default…

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BlueCat to acquire LiveAction

BlueCat adds LiveAction’s network observability and intelligence platform, which helps large enterprises optimize the performance, resiliency, and security of their networks.