Check Point - Security Administration Corporate Training
Administer Check Point gateways end to end: policies, NAT, VPNs, and event analysis in guided labs.
Your security team learns to administer Check Point firewalls with confidence. Employees author ordered policies in SmartConsole, configure NAT and VPNs, and investigate incidents through gateway logs in guided labs led by practitioners. Each session is tuned to your gateway estate, versions, and workflows.
Instructor-led group trainingVirtual / on-site / off-site10 languagesDelivered inEnglish, Spanish, Mandarin, German, Arabic, Portuguese, Hindi, French, Japanese, Italian100+ countriesWe have delivered inUnited States, United Kingdom, India, Canada, Germany, France, Netherlands, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Brazil, South Africa and 90+ more countries
How we build a firewall-ready security team
EDSTELLAR CYBERSECURITY CAPABILITY MODEL
Assess firewall maturity
Skill checks map your team's gateway, policy, and VPN baseline.
Set shared policy standards
One shared standard for rule authoring, NAT, and change control.
Practice in guided labs
Labs cover policies, NAT, VPNs, and log analysis on live topologies.
Measure the lift
Lab reviews benchmark each engineer's firewall administration capability.
Scale across teams
One standard rolls out across sites, shifts, and gateway estates.
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Program Overview: What is Check Point - Security Administration?
Check Point - Security Administration is Edstellar's instructor-led technical program for network and security engineers managing Check Point environments. Participants learn Check Point architecture and deployment concepts, security policy design, and rule base management. NAT, traffic inspection, VPNs, secure remote access, logging, and event analysis complete the technical syllabus.
Training happens on live-style firewall scenarios. Participants build and tune security policies, configure NAT and VPNs, and investigate events through logs in hands-on labs. Instructors with Check Point deployment experience guide six modules across 24 hours. Every lab mirrors production tasks, the rule base you build in training resembles the one you'll manage at work.
Firewall estates drift: rules accumulate, nobody remembers why, VPNs sprawl, and logs go unread until an incident. This program trains engineers to run a disciplined Check Point environment, clean rule bases, intentional VPN design, and monitoring that actually gets monitored. Your team returns able to harden what they inherited instead of just maintaining it.
The capstone is an enterprise firewall build and hardening review, architected, configured, and then audited as a security assessor would audit it. Engineers leave with a hardened build methodology they can apply to every gateway they touch.
Six modules and 24 hours: Check Point architecture, policy management, NAT and inspection, VPNs and remote access, and logging and event analysis. Every module pairs concepts with a guided lab, so each technique is practiced. It closes with a capstone firewall build the team deploys, hardens, and defends in review.
Delivery is hybrid across virtual and onsite sessions, scheduled around your calendar. Cohorts train as one group or split into batches, with session materials and lab guides included for every participant.
What's Included in this Workshop for Your Enterprise Teams
- 1
SmartConsole policy labs
Author ordered rule bases for realistic topologies.
- 2
NAT and VPN exercises
Configure translations and tunnels, then verify traffic.
- 3
Log analysis workshops
Investigate intrusions from SmartLog and SmartEvent.
- 4
Hardening and recovery labs
Apply checklists, backups, and troubleshooting drills.
- Instructor-led delivery across virtual, onsite, and hybrid
- Guided labs in every module with instructor coaching
- Capstone firewall build, reviewed with your team
- Flexible scheduling around your calendar
- Lab guides and reusable policy templates included
- Group size and batches set along with you
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Check Point - Security Administration Course Topics and Program Outline
A tailored 24-hour, six-module workshop: one learning journey from Check Point architecture to a capstone firewall build. Sessions pair concepts with labs on real-world use cases. Materials include lab guides, policy templates, and hardening checklists for every participant.
Built by Edstellar with firewall practitioners
Built by practitioners who administer Check Point estates in production, shaped around your stack and use cases.
Skill checks baseline your team's firewall, VPN, and Check Point console familiarity before training begins.
Live instruction covers Check Point architecture, policy design, and NAT across 6.5 focused hours.
Guided labs build rule authoring, VPN deployment, and log analysis skill across 12.5 hours of supervised practice.
Your team deploys and hardens a lab firewall estate in a 5-hour capstone, reviewed against operational standards.
From Check Point architecture to a capstone firewall build, every technique is practiced in guided labs.
Delivered as
Delivered as a hybrid program of live instruction and guided labs, scheduled around your team's calendar in flexible batches.
Navigate SmartConsole in the guided demo environment and map each management component to your team's firewall and policy workflows.
learna)Security Management Server and gateway roles
b)Gateway form factors and deployment models
c)SmartConsole navigation and workspaces
d)Lab topology walkthrough and access setup
Author a layered rule base in SmartConsole for a branch office scenario, then install the policy and verify enforcement on test traffic.
learna)Policy packages and installation targets
b)Network objects, groups, and naming discipline
c)Ordered rule bases, sections, and inline layers
d)Rule cleanup: shadows, redundancy, and unused rules
Configure hide NAT for a user segment and static NAT for a DMZ server, then capture traffic to prove translations apply in the right order.
practicea)Static NAT, hide NAT, and NAT rule order
b)Automatic versus manual NAT rules
c)Inspecting HTTP, DNS, and FTP traffic
d)Verifying translations with traffic captures
Build a site-to-site VPN between two lab gateways, enroll a remote access client, then fail a tunnel over and confirm traffic keeps flowing.
practicea)Site-to-site VPN communities and topologies
b)IKE, certificates, and encryption domains
c)Remote access VPN setup and client profiles
d)VPN failover testing and troubleshooting
Investigate a simulated intrusion end to end: filter SmartLog views, correlate events in SmartEvent, and write up findings for an operations handoff.
practicea)Log servers, SmartLog views, and filters
b)SmartEvent correlation and event triage
c)Custom reports for operations and audits
d)Intrusion investigation from raw logs
Deploy and harden the complete lab firewall estate, then present the build and defend every policy decision in the instructor review.
applya)Full policy build on the enterprise topology
b)Gateway hardening checklist and verification
c)Backup, restore, and upgrade readiness
d)Troubleshooting methodology and peer review
Customize this program tailored to your team?
Tell us your training needs: what your team already works with, the level they’re at, and the topics you want them to focus on. We’ll adjust the modules, duration and hands-on labs, and send you a customized outline for your group.
Key Skills and Outcomes Your Team Will Gain
Seven job-ready outcomes your team will demonstrate by the end of the program. Each competency is practiced in guided labs and reviewed in the capstone build.
Explain the Check Point management architecture
Describe how the Security Management Server, gateways, and SmartConsole work together to enforce policy across your estate.
Author ordered firewall policies
Build layered rule bases with disciplined objects, sections, and cleanup of shadowed or unused rules.
Configure NAT for enterprise traffic
Apply static and hide NAT correctly and verify translations with traffic captures.
Deploy site-to-site and remote access VPNs
Build VPN communities, enroll remote clients with certificates, and test failover under load.
Analyze logs and correlate security events
Use SmartLog and SmartEvent to investigate intrusions and produce operations-ready reports.
Harden gateways and troubleshoot issues
Apply hardening checklists, manage backups, and diagnose policy and connectivity problems methodically.
Deliver a reviewed firewall build
Deploy a complete lab firewall estate and defend every policy decision in the instructor-led capstone review.
Teams that Benefit from this Check Point - Security Administration Group Training
This group training is built for teams that run Check Point firewalls and want ordered, auditable policies without slowing change down. Content adapts to each cohort's roles, gateway models, and experience, so every batch practices the workflows it owns, from policy authoring to incident investigation.
Run gateways with confidence, not guesswork.
Firewall administrators learn to author ordered policies, manage NAT, and keep gateway estates healthy across sites.
Workflow friction
- Bloated, unordered rule bases
- NAT misconfigurations
- Inconsistent multi-site policies
How the program helps
- Cleaner, auditable rule bases
- Reliable NAT and VPN operation
- Faster policy change cycles
Practice use cases
- Policy authoring labs
- NAT configuration
- VPN builds
Investigate faster with Check Point telemetry.
Analysts learn to query SmartLog views, correlate events in SmartEvent, and turn gateway logs into incident findings.
Workflow friction
- Noisy, unfiltered log views
- Slow manual correlation
- Weak incident evidence
How the program helps
- Faster log-driven triage
- Correlated event timelines
- Audit-ready reporting
Practice use cases
- SmartLog investigations
- Event correlation
- Report building
Deploy gateways that survive production.
Engineers practice gateway deployment, VPN architecture, hardening checklists, and backup and restore procedures.
Workflow friction
- Drift from secure baselines
- Fragile VPN tunnels
- Untested backup restores
How the program helps
- Hardened gateway builds
- Resilient VPN topologies
- Tested recovery procedures
Practice use cases
- Hardening labs
- VPN architecture
- Recovery drills
Keep firewall services reliable for the business.
Infrastructure teams learn gateway lifecycle tasks: upgrades, licensing, high availability, and connectivity troubleshooting.
Workflow friction
- Risky ad-hoc upgrades
- Single points of failure
- Slow outage diagnosis
How the program helps
- Planned, safe upgrades
- High-availability gateway pairs
- Quicker connectivity fixes
Practice use cases
- Upgrade planning
- HA configuration
- Troubleshooting labs
Cohorts train as a cross-functional workforce, with each small group aligned on shared policy and review standards.
Prerequisites: This program benefits firewall administrators, network security engineers, and SOC analysts who work with Check Point gateways or plan to. Basic networking and firewall concepts help but are not required: the opening module establishes the architecture before any configuration begins, and every lab adapts to each cohort's gateway models and experience.
Firewall administrator to security engineer
Move from firewall fundamentals to advanced Check Point administration: each level adds hands-on depth, from describing the management architecture to owning hardened, production-ready gateway estates.
A program that grows with security careers, from first SmartConsole policy to confident firewall estate ownership.
Different Teams, Locations, Time Zones, or Languages? We've Got You Covered.
Whether your teams are spread across countries, time zones, languages, or experience levels, we deliver tailored training programs that ensure a consistent learning experience across your global workforce.
Certificate of Training Completion.
On successful completion, employees receive an Edstellar course completion certificate, recognizing their commitment to ongoing learning and professional development. It validates the skills they have built and motivates them to keep growing and contribute to organizational success.
Earned, not attended. Awarded on completion of all hands-on labs and the capstone project.
Training Delivery Modes: Onsite, Virtual and Hybrid
Live instruction with guided labs in every module, available across onsite, virtual, and hybrid formats to fit your team's schedule.
Onsite Training
Instructor-led training at your offices, with the lab topology adapted to mirror your network. The instructor works alongside the team in person, reviews policies together, and tunes exercises to your gateway estate and workflows.
- Instructor-led training at your offices
- Lab topology mirroring your network
- In-person coaching and reviews
- Exercises tuned to your gateway estate and workflows
Live Virtual Training
Live virtual sessions on Zoom or Teams with screen-shared SmartConsole walkthroughs, breakout labs, and real-time reviews. Your team gets the same guided labs and instructor coaching as onsite, from anywhere.
- Live virtual sessions on Zoom or Teams
- Screen-shared walkthroughs and breakout labs
- Real-time review with the instructor
- Same guided labs as onsite, from anywhere
Hybrid Training
Instructor-led sessions mix onsite and virtual delivery with guided labs throughout. Teams practice Check Point policy authoring, NAT, and VPN builds while the instructor coaches and reviews work. Hybrid keeps scheduling flexible without losing live interaction.
- Live instruction across onsite and virtual sessions
- Guided labs with instructor coaching and reviews
- Real firewall workflows with hands-on practice
- Flexible scheduling without losing live interaction
Need a customized training format that works for your team?
Our training delivery is customized to your team's schedule, full days, half days, sessions spread across weeks, or modular formats. Share your preferred timeline, and we'll plan the training around it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Share your team size, timelines, and delivery preference, and we will send a detailed per-group quote with batch options.
Yes. Book a discovery call and we will map your gateway estate, firewall maturity, and goals to a tailored training plan before you commit.
Yes. Live virtual sessions run on Zoom or Teams with the same guided SmartConsole labs and instructor coaching as onsite delivery.
Yes. The instructor runs the full program at your offices, with the lab topology adapted to mirror your network and policy structure.
The program runs 24 hours of instructor-led training, usually across three to six days or weekly sessions on a flexible, mutually agreed schedule.
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Where this Training Fits in Your Team's learning path.
Check Point administration follows firewall basics, giving your team the concepts before the product. Once administrators can run gateways and policies well, they can automate that work and use Check Point to segment the network into controlled zones.
FIREWALL BASICS
Introduction to Firewalls Training
Learn packet filtering, stateful inspection and rule design.
ADMINISTER CHECK POINT
Check Point - Security Administration Training
Install, configure and manage Check Point gateways, policies, NAT and logging.
AUTOMATE CHECK POINT
Check Point - Automation Specialist Training
Automate repeat policy and object changes through Check Point APIs and scripts.
SEGMENT THE NETWORK
Enterprise Network Security & Segmentation Training
Divide the network into zones and enforce traffic rules between them.
Why Choose Edstellar as Your Check Point - Security Administration Corporate Training Provider
When comparing providers, Edstellar is the training partner teams choose for firewall expertise and 5+ years of corporate training experience. Our methodology blends concise instruction with guided labs, and we share each trainer profile before booking. The result is measurable quality in the policies your team ships and the incidents it contains.
EXPERT TRAINERS
YEARS DELIVERING
ORGANIZATIONS TRAINED
CERTIFIED
Tailored
Every cohort's labs, policies, and VPN scenarios are tuned to your gateway estate and network topology.
Proven Methodology
A learn, practice, apply arc moves your team from Check Point concepts to a live firewall hardening capstone.
Practice-Based Learning
Guided labs in every module build rule authoring, NAT, VPN, and log analysis skill on realistic topologies.
Expert Trainers
Practitioners who administer Check Point estates in production lead every session.
Global Scale
One consistent program rolls out across network teams, regions, and delivery formats.
Measurable Outcomes
Lab checkpoints and the capstone review show exactly what your team can now deploy and defend.
Develop Check Point Administration Through Verified Configuration and Incident Investigation
Edstellar connects Check Point architecture with the everyday decisions behind firewall policies, address translation, VPNs, and monitoring. Participants configure a lab estate and investigate simulated traffic and events. Instructor reviews culminate in a hardening defense that tests whether configuration choices are justified and their behavior can be demonstrated.
- Step 01
Consult
We review firewall concepts, gateway responsibilities, and troubleshooting challenges to identify gaps in rule design, traffic translation, VPNs, and event investigation.
- Step 02
Plan
We establish SmartConsole architecture before rule bases, NAT, VPNs, and event analysis, then integrate the configurations in a hardened firewall build.
- Step 03
Align
We align Check Point administration instruction with gateway familiarity and network roles, confirming suitable lab access for configuration and traffic verification.
- Step 04
Customize
We adapt branch-office policies, DMZ translations, and intrusion scenarios to familiar network patterns while keeping all exercises within the training estate.
- Step 05
Execute
Participants install policies, inspect translations, test VPN behavior, and investigate events, receiving feedback on enforcement evidence, configuration logic, and operational handoffs.
- Step 06
Evaluate
We assess the firewall build and defense for correct traffic handling, justified policy choices, working connectivity, and clear evidence of hardening.
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Check Point - Security Administration Training Packages & Pricing
Where L&D holds an annual budget, license packages price the whole year at once instead of raising a purchase order per workshop. Hours and licenses are pooled across teams, programs and locations, so unused capacity is not stranded in one department.
Starter
120
trainee licenses64 hours of group training
Tailored for SMBs
Growth
320
trainee licenses160 hours of group training
Ideal for growing SMBs
Enterprise
800
trainee licenses400 hours of group training
Designed for large corporations
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Multi-region and multi-year
Training Packages & Pricing
Choose the training format that works for your team. Pricing is customized based on your requirements, cohort size, and delivery needs.
Request a Quote for Check Point - Security Administration Training for Your Team
Share your team size, Check Point versions and gateway models, and timelines to receive a tailored training plan and quote. Book a discovery call to discuss your goals; we confirm availability and respond with a proposal.