Check Point CCME flashcards
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- Infinity Portal
- The cloud-based console that unifies management and visibility across Quantum, CloudGuard, Harmony, and Horizon, and hosts licensing, support cases, and downloads.
- Quantum platform
- Check Point's network security platform covering security gateways, management servers, and the SmartConsole toolset for policy and monitoring.
- CloudGuard platform
- Check Point's cloud security platform, spanning posture management, workload protection, network security gateways in public clouds, and application security.
- Harmony platform
- Check Point's user and access security platform covering endpoint, email and collaboration, browser, mobile, and SASE protection for hybrid work.
- ThreatCloud AI
- Check Point's shared threat-intelligence backend that supplies reputation, signatures, sandbox verdicts, and AI models to all product platforms.
- Hybrid Mesh
- A policy-managed security fabric that enforces one consistent policy across data-center gateways, cloud workloads, branches, and remote users under shared management.
- Software blade
- A licensed inspection module on a Quantum gateway, such as Firewall, IPS, Application Control, or Anti-Bot, enabled per gateway object in SmartConsole.
- Threat Prevention profile
- A container binding IPS, Anti-Bot, Anti-Virus, Threat Emulation, and Threat Extraction settings, attached to a gateway or rule to enforce inspection.
- SIC
- Secure Internal Communication: certificate-based trust between a management server and gateway, required for policy installation and log delivery.
- ClusterXL
- Quantum gateway redundancy mode offering High Availability (active/standby) or Load Sharing across members, requiring a cluster object and sync network.
- Harmony SASE
- Check Point's cloud-delivered secure access service edge, providing ZTNA, secure web gateway, CASB, DLP, and SD-WAN for hybrid workers.
- Harmony Email & Collaboration
- API-based email security for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace that inspects mail after delivery and needs no MX record changes.
- CloudGuard Posture Management
- Cloud security posture product, formerly Dome9, that evaluates cloud accounts against compliance frameworks and flags misconfigurations as prioritized findings.
- ZTNA
- Zero Trust Network Access brokers per-application connections after verifying identity, device posture, and context, replacing network-level VPN access.
- Infinity Vision
- Check Point's exposure management product that discovers assets, maps attack paths, and prioritizes risk across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments.
- Threat Emulation
- Sandbox inspection that detonates suspicious files in an isolated environment and blocks them when malicious behavior is observed.
- Threat Extraction
- Protection that strips active content from downloaded files and delivers a safe reconstructed version immediately, releasing the original only if clean.
- Infinity Events
- Cloud-delivered correlation layer that turns telemetry from Quantum, CloudGuard, Harmony, and third parties into prioritized incidents.
- Collaborative Enterprise Support
- Check Point's top proactive support program, adding a named engineer, quarterly reviews, health checks, and upgrade planning to base support.
- CCSA certification
- Check Point Certified Security Administrator: entry certification covering deployment, policy management, and core gateway administration.
- Check Point Mind
- The official learning platform hosting Check Point courses, lab environments, and certification preparation material for customers and partners.
- Horizon
- Check Point's managed security service for small and medium businesses, where Check Point operates the gateways and delivers protection as a service.
- Quantum Maestro
- Hyperscale gateway platform (41000/61000 appliances) that pools multiple gateways into one scalable, resilient security cluster.
- VSX
- Virtual Systems extension that creates multiple independent virtual gateways on one physical appliance, each with its own policy and interfaces.
- Gaia clish
- The default command shell on Quantum appliances for configuration tasks such as interfaces, routes, and saving configuration; expert mode provides bash.
- CloudGuard Network Security
- Quantum gateway software deployed as virtual machines in public clouds, often autoscaling behind a load balancer for elastic protection.
- Harmony Endpoint
- Endpoint protection platform combining EPP and EDR, managed either on-premises or through the cloud console.
- Harmony Browse
- Browser extension that enforces safe browsing and zero-trust application access at the browser level, independent of the network path.
- Attack path analysis
- Exposure technique that links identities, permissions, and network reachability to show how an attacker could reach sensitive data.
- AI security guardrails
- Controls protecting AI workloads from prompt injection, sensitive-data leakage to models, and unauthorized model or API access.
- cpinfo
- Diagnostic utility that collects gateway or management logs and configuration into a bundle, standard practice before opening a support case.
- Professional Services
- Project-based Check Point engagements for design, migration, and optimization, contracted separately from the ongoing support agreement.