This 2-day course helps you learn basic concepts and develop skills necessary to administer Harmony Endpoint security solutions.

• Understand the emergence of increasingly more sophisticated cyberattacks and the need to protect endpoints.
• Explain the advantages of Harmony Endpoint as a security solution.
• Become familiar with the growing Endpoint Security Market. 
• Describe the key elements of the Harmony Endpoint Architecture. 
• Describe the Harmony Endpoint Management Environment. 
• Understand Check Point’s Infinity Portal. 
• Explain the new Harmony Endpoint Web Management Service.
• Identify main features of the Harmony Endpoint Management console.
• Explain how to create and assign security policies for Endpoint clients using endpoint security.
• Understand deployment methods and server considerations for Endpoint Security Management installation.
• Identify the different ways to install and configure Endpoint clients.
• Understand how Endpoint Security authenticates and verifies clients connecting to the Endpoint Security Management Server.
• Describe additional server configurations that are available to help manage Endpoint clients.
• Recognize the different types of data security available to deploy on end user machines.
• Describe how Full Disk Encryption technology protects and recovers data accessed and stored on Endpoint computers.
• Understand how to secure removable media devices.
• Understand how Harmony Endpoint is defending company networks against sophisticated attacks.
• Describe Check Point Harmony Endpoint Agent.
• Explain how Harmony Endpoint Agent’s advanced technologies are preventing attacks from infiltrating Endpoint machines and corporate resources
• Become familiar with Harmony Endpoint troubleshooting methods.
• Understand how to troubleshoot and debug issues that may occur in the Endpoint Security environment.

Technical professionals who support, install deploy or administer Check Point products.

Working knowledge of Windows, UNIX, networking technology, the Internet and TCP/IP.security solutions. 

Check Point recommends that students who wish to expand their knowledge participate in the CCSA and CCSE courses beforehand.

Topics:

• Zero-Day Detection
• Behavioral Guard 
• Deployment
• Anti-Malware
• Anti-Bot
• Automatic Remediation 
• Threat Emulation 
• Threat Extraction
• Forensics 
• Port Protection
• Cloud-Based
• Data Protection
• Threat Detection 
• Anti-Exploit 
• Anti-Ransomware 
• Remote Access VPN
• APTs 

Exercises:

• Activate the Harmony Endpoint manager in the Cloud
• Configure Active Directory.
• Connect Active Directory to the Cloud management server
• Install Initial Agent on the Domain Controller.
• Demonstrate how to deploy the Harmony Endpoint Agent on a client
• Configure the policy operation mode
• Create exception rules for specific removable media devices.
• Deploy and configure Anti-Bot and URL Filtering on an Endpoint client
•  Configure and deploy Full Disk Encryption on a client
•  Test Anti-Bot behavioral engine.
• Configure and deploy Media Encryption
• Block access to certain websites for specific user groups.
• Configure and deploy Port Protection on an Endpoint client. 
• Perform threat emulation and extraction of malicious content. 
• Learn how to extract malicious content from a document.

Attend two Infinity Specialization courses and pass their exams to automatically become a Check Point Certified Security Master (CCSM). 

Attend four Infinity Specialization courses and pass their exams to automatically become a Check Point Certified Security Master Elite (CCSM Elite). 

Choose from the following Infinity Specialization courses: 

• Check Point Certified Endpoint Specialist (CCES)
• Check Point Certified Troubleshooting Administrator (CCTA)
• Check Point Certified Automation Specialist (CCAS)
• Check Point Certified Cloud Specialist (CCCS)
• Check Point Certified MDSM Specialist (CCMS)
• Check Point Certified VSX Specialist (CCVS)
• Check Point Certified Troubleshooting Expert (CCTE)
• Check Point Certified Maestro Expert (CCME)

Prepare for exam #156-530.8 at www.VUE.com/checkpoint

Exam vouchers are available at an additional cost from educationteam.ecs.uk@arrow.com (0870 251 1000)

Full information on Check Point’s Certification Program can be viewed at https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/training/check-point-certification-faq.pdf

Please note that Check Point only offer e-kit courseware for training courses. Each delegate will be provided with an official set of e-kit courseware. 

Arrow ECS are a Check Point Platinum Elite Authorised Training Company (ATC) Partner and participate in the Check Point Learning Credits (CLCs) and Partner Coop Training Program.