Continuous education with this platform is a must for you to remain successful with it. *GET TRAINING (your sales guy is going to hate me - but negotiate this one in every time you buy something)! This is an absolute must for a beginner (and even those who have been around a long time) in this environment. *Once you get a large presence in the platform, sign up for Diamond Support (or negotiate it in). *Form a super-strong relationship with your sales person and your SE. The trick is finding the one who's strengths play to your objectives and their weaknesses are someone else's problem. It is a royal pain in the behind and my least favorite thing to deal with.Īny vendor you end up dealing with is going to have their strengths and weaknesses. Here's a bad thing: Licensing - licensing stinks.

Deep troubleshooting can be annoying, but it is getting better. Using the platform for IPSEC VPN is amazing. Here's a couple good things to say: Day-to-day gateway management is a breeze and is enjoyable to work with. The product is solid and if you pay for it, support is amazing.ĬheckPoint is an enormous platform and it is difficult for 1 person to be an expert in every aspect. It is fun and challenging (sometimes exceedingly challenging). Though I've seen demos from the other big guys. In a large production environment, CheckPoint is the only firewall I've ever used. And my company has been a CheckPoint customer for nearly 20 years. I've been working with CheckPoint gear for a little over 4 years now as a customer.

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