Accelerated Encryption Processing (AEP) is specifically designed to offload SSL/TLS processing from the Security Gateway’s CPU to dedicated hardware, significantly improving performance for encrypted traffic inspection. This is the correct choice for high-volume HTTPS environments where performance is a primary concern.

Check Point rules are processed from top to bottom. If traffic matches a higher-ranking rule with an ‘Accept’ action, the connection is allowed and lower-ranking rules (even ‘Drop’ rules) are not evaluated for that connection. The logs show hits because the packet initially matched the drop rule’s criteria, but the final verdict was ‘Accept’ from the earlier rule.

The ‘cpview’ command launches an interactive, real-time performance monitoring tool that provides a consolidated, color-coded view of CPU, memory, disk, network, and security blade utilization. It’s the most comprehensive first step for diagnosing resource-related issues.

The policy requires inspection of *all* file types, so the global setting must be enabled. To resolve the false positive for legitimate business traffic, a precise exception should be created. An exception based on the trusted source (the bank’s IP) is more secure and manageable than one based on a mutable file extension (.PDF) or a URL.

A successful ‘fw fetch’ confirms the gateway can pull policy. A failed push from the management server often indicates a synchronization issue. The database revision for the gateway object on the management server should match the gateway’s expected revision. A mismatch can cause the gateway to reject the policy installation.

When interoperating with a third-party device that only supports IKEv2, you must explicitly configure the Check Point VPN community to ‘Support key exchange for IKEv2 only’. This ensures the Check Point gateway will not fall back to IKEv1, which the cloud router does not support.

The ThreatCloud Intelligence service allows you to create and subscribe to dynamic IP Address Exception feeds. Once configured in the management console, this feed automatically updates all enforced policies across the deployment, providing the fastest, most consistent, and maintainable response to emerging IP-based threats.

For HTTPS Inspection to be transparent, the gateway acts as a man-in-the-middle. It signs intercepted traffic with its own Internal CA certificate. If this CA certificate is not trusted on the client machines, they will generate warnings. The solution is to install this Internal CA certificate into the trusted root store of all client endpoints.

The ‘XlateSrc’ (Translated Source) field shows the original, internal IP address of the host behind NAT. The standard ‘Source’ field in the logs will show the gateway’s external IP due to Hide NAT. To find the actual internal culprit, you must look at ‘XlateSrc’ for connections where the ‘Destination’ is the malicious IP.

Accelerated Encryption Processing (AEP) is specifically designed to offload SSL/TLS processing from the Security Gateway’s CPU to dedicated hardware, significantly improving performance for encrypted traffic inspection. This is the correct choice for high-volume HTTPS environments where performance is a primary concern.0