Choosing a Firewall Policy to Enforce

By default, the Firewall policy enforced is the Endpoint Security Firewall Policy Rules.

If your environment had Endpoint Security VPN and then moved to the complete Endpoint Security solution, you might want to continue to use the Desktop Policy from the legacy SmartDashboard Legacy Check Point GUI client used to create and manage the security settings in versions R77.30 and lower. In versions R80.X and higher is still used to configure specific legacy settings. that you open from SmartConsole Check Point GUI application used to manage a Check Point environment - configure Security Policies, configure devices, monitor products and events, install updates, and so on.. To learn how to configure a Desktop Policy, see Managing Desktop Firewalls in the Remote Access clients for Windows Administration Guide for your client release.

Select which Firewall policy to enforce:

Action	Description
Enforce Endpoint Firewall policy	Use the Endpoint Security Firewall Policy Rules
Enforce Desktop Policy from SmartConsole	Use the Desktop Policy from SmartConsole

To activate the Desktop Policy from SmartConsole:

1. In the SmartEndpoint A Check Point GUI application which connects to the Endpoint Security Management Server, to manage your Endpoint Security environment - to deploy, monitor and configure Endpoint Security clients and policies. Policy tab, go the Firewall section of the policy.

2. In the Actions column, select Enforce Desktop Policy from SmartConsole.

3. Install Policy.

4. Restart all computers included in the rule Set of traffic parameters and other conditions in a Rule Base (Security Policy) that cause specified actions to be taken for a communication session..