Summary

This chapter covered a lot of ground to help you administer Check Point FW-1 NG AI. It talked about ways you can tune and monitor the firewall s performance. Additionally, it discussed how to maintain the firewall s effectiveness by performing audits , using best practices for administration, applying patches, and monitoring the logs. Finally, this chapter gave some details about how to back up and recover from a failed FW-1 NG AI installation. In summary, as an administrator, your primary job is to make the firewall perform well, effectively, and without fail. Sometimes that may seem like a lot to ask. In fact, at times performance may be at odds with effectiveness, or vice versa. However, the primary goal of an administrator is to make the firewall work the way it was designed in the security policy. The best way to ensure the effectiveness of your firewall is daily administration through log review and performance monitoring.