Blast from the CHKP Past: Can't Get Putkeys to Work [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
For those of you who never had to work with Check Point FireWall-1 4.1 and earlier, you're lucky you likely never EVER had to use putkeys.The fw putkey was used to establish authentication between th…
FireWall-1 User Interface from 3.0 [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
If you ran Check Point FireWall-1 on SunOS or Solaris, you probably remember this screen: This is a screen capture from fwui, the management interface for FireWall-1.
The TSA and A Lesson in Data Loss Prevention [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
From PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 305: Threat? Clearly this unredacted, sealed legal brief should have never been made public. The rest of the Internet won't necessarily forget, though.
Blast from the CHKP Past: Can't Talk to Translated IP from Internal Net [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
It's pretty obvious from looking through the number of 404s I'm seeing in Google's Webmaster tools that a lot of pages still link to old stuff I wrote about Check Point FireWall-1. Ho…
Growing Up With Check Point [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
Note: I've released a podcast of this article if you prefer. The 20 Year Anniversary of Check Point's founding has a special place in my heart. Mostly because it is how I personally made my career.
No Good For Workloads? Depends on the Workload. [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
From Chris Hoff's (a.k.a. Beaker) NGFW = No Good For Workloads:NGFW, as defined, is a campus and branch solution. Campus and Branch NGFW solves the “inside-out” problem — applying policy from a numbe…
If Only App Control Were Around When Pointcast Was A Thing [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
Back when I first got into IT and just started working with FireWall-1, Pointcast was a thing. The problem: how to do it. Even back then, no one in their right mind would block HTTP.
Should You Fret About Mobile Security? [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
From Stop fretting about mobile security, says Palo Alto Networks founder: “What I often hear from customers is that 'users have a mobile and they have corporate email and they have Dropbox and I'm a…
No Good For Workloads? Depends on the Workload. [securitytheater.phoneboy.com]
From Chris Hoff's (a.k.a. Beaker) NGFW = No Good For Workloads:NGFW, as defined, is a campus and branch solution. Campus and Branch NGFW solves the “inside-out” problem — applying policy from a numbe…