Check Point Appliance Hardware (Lachmann List, Update December 8th 2016)

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Dec 082016
 

For years Tobias Lachmann posted a list of Check Point hardware, for the last time on July 30th 2015. I will try to continue and extend the list for the new appliances. Therefore I need your contribution. If you have an appliance at your fingers please be so kind to issue these commands
cat /proc/cpuinfo > lachmann.txt
cat /proc/meminfo >> lachmann.txt
and sent the file lachmann.txt with the appliance type as subject to lachmannlist@fink.sh. I will try to update the list by time.

Updates:

  • CPU 5400 (Thanks to Anonymous)
  • 16 GB memory option for 5200 (Thanks to Florian Hiildinger)

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Threat Emulation with HTTP(S) Traffic

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Nov 182016
 

SandBlast is wonderful

In my humble opinion, SandBlast Threat Emulation is one of the most effective software blades Check Point has ever built. I saw it rescuing some customers asses in the zenith of Locky & Co.

It is very smart with SMTP and filters out malicious mails in a wonderful way. Nearly one year ago one of our customers was heavy under attack with malicious PDFs coming in to about 1,500 different end users within 10 minutes. The file hash was changing nearly every fifth file. I could easily spot this from SmartLog.

Nothing bad happened to the customer besides some time of mail congestion, but every little piece of malware was sorted out by Check Point SandBlast Threat Emulation. Wonderful, really wonderful. Continue reading »

Check Point Appliance Hardware (Lachmann List, Update November 17th 2016)

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Nov 172016
 

For years Tobias Lachmann posted a list of Check Point hardware, for the last time on July 30th 2015. I will try to continue and extend the list for the new appliances. Therefore I need your contribution. If you have an appliance at your fingers please be so kind to issue these commands
cat /proc/cpuinfo > lachmann.txt
cat /proc/meminfo >> lachmann.txt
and sent the file lachmann.txt with the appliance type as subject to lachmannlist@fink.sh. I will try to update the list by time.

Updates:

  • CPU 5200 (Thanks to Magnus Holmberg)
  • CPU 3200 (Thanks to Thomas R.)
  • CPU/Mem TE2000X HPP (Christoph Murth)

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How to implement a cache?

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Nov 012016
 

Today I learned something astonishing about cache implementation.

What I thought before: When I have a cache with 20,000 entries and it fills up, I would define two marks. Let’s call them “high watermark” and “low watermark”. When the number of entries reaches the high watermark I will start to delete the most unused entries until we reach the low watermark. Let’s call this process “garbage collection”, furthermore.  Continue reading »

Check Point Appliance Hardware (Lachmann List, Update October 10th 2016)

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Oct 102016
 

For years Tobias Lachmann posted a list of Check Point hardware, for the last time on July 30th 2015. I will try to continue and extend the list for the new appliances. Therefore I need your contribution. If you have an appliance at your fingers please be so kind to issue these commands
cat /proc/cpuinfo > lachmann.txt
cat /proc/meminfo >> lachmann.txt
and sent the file lachmann.txt with the appliance type as subject to lachmannlist@fink.sh. I will try to update the list by time.

Updates:

  • CPU 23800 (Thanks to Derek O’Flynn)
  • CPU 5800 (Thanks to Iris Michelsen)
  • CPU TE100X (Thanks to Markus Malits)

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Check Point Appliance Hardware (Lachmann List, Update September 6th 2016)

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Sep 062016
 

For years Tobias Lachmann posted a list of Check Point hardware, for the last time on July 30th 2015. I will try to continue and extend the list for the new appliances. Therefore I need your contribution. If you have an appliance at your fingers please be so kind to issue these commands
cat /proc/cpuinfo > lachmann.txt
cat /proc/meminfo >> lachmann.txt
and sent the file lachmann.txt with the appliance type as subject to lachmannlist@fink.sh. I will try to update the list by time.

Updates:

  • CPU 5600

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Check Point Appliance Hardware (Lachmann List, Update August 20th 2016)

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Aug 202016
 

For years Tobias Lachmann posted a list of Check Point hardware, for the last time on July 30th 2015. I will try to continue and extend the list for the new appliances. Therefore I need your contribution. If you have an appliance at your fingers please be so kind to issue these commands
cat /proc/cpuinfo > lachmann.txt
cat /proc/meminfo >> lachmann.txt
and sent the file lachmann.txt with the appliance type as subject to lachmannlist@fink.sh. I will try to update the list by time.

Updates:

  • CPU 15400 (Thanks to Tony)

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Check Point Security Checkup as Cloud Service

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Aug 032016
 

We have made Check Point Security Checkups for many of our customers or sales prospects. This is done via a mirror port configuration (sk83500: How to run a Mirror Port Proof of Concept) of a firewall gateway together with a security management server and SmartEvent.

Today Check Point announced a new R80 version of the Security Checkup in the Cloud (sk112732). This made me curious.  Continue reading »

Check Point Appliance Hardware (Lachmann List, Update August 1st 2016)

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Aug 012016
 

For years Tobias Lachmann posted a list of Check Point hardware, for the last time on July 30th 2015. I will try to continue and extend the list for the new appliances. Therefore I need your contribution. If you have an appliance at your fingers please be so kind to issue these commands
cat /proc/cpuinfo > lachmann.txt
cat /proc/meminfo >> lachmann.txt
and sent the file lachmann.txt with the appliance type as subject to lachmannlist@fink.sh. I will try to update the list by time.

Updates:

  • CPU 23500 (Thanks to Umut Kiran)

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