Re: Checkpoint Question

[Aaron Turner <aturner () vicinity com>]

Well that depends on a few things:

- How much you already know 
- How much time you're willing to invest preping
- What you mean by the "first time" :)

Honestly if you've chosen FW-1, and you don't want to/can't get the
training then either:

1) Find a consultant to help (check references!!!!!!)

or 

2) Buy the Nokia Firewall-1 Appliance

#2 still requires you to design your security policy and write good
rules, but it makes installation of the hardware/software much easier.
Depending on how much you already know about security and firewalls in
general, you may or may not write good rules.

Regardless, I'd recommend Lance Spitzner's excellent FW-1/security site:

http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/pubs.html

as a good starting point.

-- 
Aaron Turner        aturner () vicinity com  650.237.0300 x252
Security Engineer                         Vicinity Corp.        
Cell: 408-314-9874                        http://www.vicinity.com

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Sachdev Neal wrote:

> Is it possible to install a Checkpoint firwall w/o formal training?  If
> so, what are some of the resources like books, etc that can be used to
> do it right the first time.
> Any kind of help will be highly appreciated.
> thanks
> NS