Managing Policies

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. offers a number of tools that address policy management tasks, both at the definition stage and for maintenance.

At the definition stage:

• Policy Packages let you group different types of policies, to be installed together on the same installation targets.

• Predefined Installation Targets let you associate each package with a set of gateways. You do not have to repeat the gateway selection process each time you install a Policy Package Collection of different types of Security Policies, such as Access Control, Threat Prevention, QoS, and Desktop Security. After installation, Security Gateways enforce all Policies in the Policy Package..

At the maintenance level:

• Search gives versatile search capabilities for network objects and the rules in the Rule Base All rules configured in a given Security Policy. Synonym: Rulebase..

• Database version control lets you track past changes to the database.