Customer Reviews

Check Point NG VPN-1/Firewall-1: Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting

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I have to agree with a previous reviewer. This book is great, particularly the coverage of VPN installations (two chapters covering pretty much all you need). In addition, chapter 6 (high availability and clustering) was great. Excellent material on SecurePlatform, SmartCenter. If you are running Check Point, you need this book.

I received this book as a gift and I had a hard time lying when they asked me a few weeks later if I liked it. It was completely uninformative and written poorly. I was told it got good reviews but I'm not suprised a co-author gave it good reviews.

I used the first Syngress CP NG book a lot last year when I was first getting started, and I don't think I would have survived without it. Now that I've got CP up and running, I wanted to get into more advanced VPN, HA and clustering stuff. I liked the first book so much I figured this book would take me to the next level. I was right! This book goes way beyond anything that's covered in the other books. The chapter on clustering/HA with Check Point and Nokia is worth the price of the book all by itself. If you want to know everything there is to know about Check Point, read this book.

Even as a contributing author for this book I have found it to be an incredible reference for advanced configuration options. NG FP3 incorporated changes in both the naming conventions and operational nuances affecting your environment. Many of these areas are given limited or no coverage as part of Check Point Training for the CCSE or CCSE+ certifications.