In this episode of CheckMates Go, we’ll talk about Infinity AIOps, Infinity Playblocks, Early Availability of Policy Advisor, updates on Harmony Browse, and some how-to videos on Harmony SASE.

• AIOps TechTalk October 2025
• AI-Powered Security for the Hyperconnected World
• Playblocks Highlights: Powerful Automations You Might Have Missed
• Infinity Policy Auditor EA
• TechTalk: Improve Your Security Posture with Threat Prevention and Policy Insights
• Harmony Browse Product Updates
• DLP Redact Feature Demo Video
• Remote Access and SASE Best Practices
• Harmony SASE How-To Videos

On this episode, we’ll follow up on how Threat Prevention blades work without HTTPS Inspection enabled, more about the Public R82.10 Early Availability program, enabling MFA for administrators, and more Maestro discussions and best practices.

• What real protection do we get from Threat Prevention if HTTPS inspection is disabled?
• sk184185: Software Blade effectiveness with and without HTTPS Inspection
• Software Blade effectiveness with and without HTTPS Inspection - sk184185
• R82.10 Public EA Program
• sk183058: Check Point Early Availability (EA) Programs
• MFA for admin access for checkpoint firewall on Gaia and Smartconsole
• sk181854: Two-Factor Authentication for Gaia OS login
• Creating an Administrator Account with SAML Authentication Login
• Maestro Best Practices October 2025
• Maestro Connection Synchronization During a Failover
• Maestro Flush and Ack
• Maestro Licensing
• ClusterXL vs ElasticXL
• ElasticXL vs Maestro
• Maestro Dual-Site Active/Active

On this episode of CheckMates Go, we’ll answer some questions about the community itself from our recent Learn About CheckMates session, the announcement of Public Early Availability of R82.10, and an errata about the Dynamic URL List feature mentioned in the last episode.

See also our Events calendar and the upcoming Deep Dive on Troubleshooting 101 for EMEA.

In this episode, we talk about the Spark Management Portal, Cloud Workshops, troubleshooting legacy geo policy, Network Groups and Updatable Objects, Dynamic URL Lists for Application Control and URL Filtering, and the best way to upgrade a NIC to a higher speed while minimizing the work.

• Quantum Spark Management Unleashed TechTalk September 2025: Video, Slides, and Q&A
• Global Cloud Workshop Roadshow
• Troubleshooting Legacy Geo Policy
• Target version does not support Network Group objects that contain inner groups with Data Center objects
• Creating Application Control and URL Filtering Rules
• ClusterXL – Changing MGMT and eth2 from 1Gb to 10Gb
• Firewall Uptime, Reimagined: How AIOps Simplifies Operations and Prevents Outages

Wel talk about our latest integration with Wiz, more management features you may not be using, various tips and tricks related to VPNs, and an invitation to Check Point’s Usability Lab.

• Video: Wiz + Check Point: Cloud Security Integration | Visibility + Prevention in Action
• Unifying Cloud Risk and Network Defense: Wiz and Check Point
• This Month’s Spotlight - 3 Features You Should Start Using Today - September 2025
• PSA: Check Point and Palo Alto - GCM Phase 1
• HowTo: Configure a VPN between FortiGate & Check Point
• sk108600: VPN Site-to-Site with 3rd party
• Block VPN Traffic by Country
• Issue with DNS resolution in browser when connected via Check Point Mobile client
• Check Point Usability Lab

We have an excerpt from our recent Future of SD-WAN session and how Check Point products protect against BRICKSTORM.

This week, we’ve got some Maestro content, how well does Threat Prevention work without https inspection enabled, rad errors, improvements to Application Control signatures, a way to find IPS Signatures with the API, CloudGuard WAF updates, and a good reason not to run debugs on a production firewall.

• Check Point Acquires Lakera
• Introducing Lakera - Securing the AI Frontier TechTalk
• Maestro Best Practices FAQ
• Maestro and Asymmetric Connections
• What real production do we get from Threat Prevention Without HTTPS Inspection
• How to Deal with RAD Errors
• Advanced Technical Resource Guide: RAD
• Improved App Control Detection Without HTTPS Inspection
• How to filter for IPS signatures with a space in the name via the API
• CloudGuard WAF: Product News September 2025
• Run Debugs in a Maintenance Window

In this episode, PhoneBoy talks about the DigiCert issue, an excerpt from our External Cyber Risks session, four features you should be using, a SmartConsole extension to help you find zero hit-count rules, and new API calls in R82 JHF 38.

Upcoming Sessions the week of September 8 2025:

• The Future of SD-WAN
• Management API Best Practices
• Quantum Spark Management Unleashed
• Remote Access and SASE Best Practices