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Ordered layers: an Application Control layer after the firewall layer

Add a second, ordered policy layer for Application Control and URL Filtering after the Network layer, block a forbidden site with a custom Application/Site object, and learn why each ordered layer must explicitly accept the traffic it should not stop.

Run this lab

It needs Standard: its 6 nodes are set to 10 vCPU and 15,872 MB in total.

In your workspace: Shared, then Check Point CCSA guided labs, then 05 - Ordered layers - an Application Control layer after the firewall layer

Run it on Standard from £5 a day

The free demo can’t run it: it has 6 vCPU and 8 GB, and this lab’s nodes need 10 vCPU and 15,872 MB together. Every lab plan includes every guided lab.

Level
Intermediate
Time
About 60 minutes
Nodes need
10 vCPU, 15,872 MB
Smallest plan
Standard

The scenario

HR has asked that staff can no longer reach a betting site, which in this lab lives at http://198.51.100.10. The web team wants its own policy layer for this kind of rule, separate from the firewall team's Network layer, so that each team edits only its own rules. You will add an ordered layer called Web Control after Network.

What you’ll practise

  • Explain how ordered layers are evaluated and why traffic must be accepted in every layer
  • Enable Application Control and URL Filtering on a gateway
  • Create an ordered layer with the Applications & URL Filtering blade and add it to a policy package
  • Block a site with a custom Application/Site object
  • Read logs that show the layer and rule that dropped a connection

The tasks

  1. Prove the site works today
  2. Turn on the blades
  3. The ordered layer
  4. Spot the trap
  5. Fix the layer
  6. Read the logs

The Lab Tasks pane has the scenario, these tasks, the checks to run, hints and the full solution.

Topology and devices

The network as it opens in EVE-NG, drawn from the lab’s own canvas, and the image each node runs.

Topology of Ordered layers - an Application Control layer after the firewall layer6 nodes and 2 networks, 7 links. Every link is listed as text below the diagram.SMSHQ-GWISPHQ-PCDMZ-WEBADMIN-PCHQ-LANInternetGi0/0eth0eth0eth1eth0eth0eth2eth0
6 nodes and 2 networks, with the interface names each link uses. On a narrow screen, scroll the diagram sideways.
Every link, as text
  • SMS eth0 to HQ-LAN (network)
  • HQ-GW eth0 to HQ-LAN (network)
  • HQ-GW eth1 to Internet (network)
  • HQ-PC eth0 to HQ-LAN (network)
  • ADMIN-PC eth0 to HQ-LAN (network)
  • ISP Gi0/0 to Internet (network)
  • HQ-GW eth2 to DMZ-WEB eth0
Nodes in Ordered layers: an Application Control layer after the firewall layer, with the image each runs and the vCPU and RAM it’s set to
NodeDeviceImage in Add NodeSet to
SMSCheck Point Security Management Servercpsms-R81.20-Licensed4 vCPU, 8,192 MB
HQ-GWCheck Point Security Gateway VE (cpsg template)cpsg-R81.20-Licensed2 vCPU, 4,096 MB
ISPCisco IOSvvios-adventerprisek9-m.SPA.159-3.M61 vCPU, 512 MB
HQ-PCAlpine Linuxclbalpinebase-alpine-base-3-20-31 vCPU, 512 MB
DMZ-WEBAlpine Linuxclbalpinebase-alpine-base-3-20-31 vCPU, 512 MB
ADMIN-PCEVE-NG Firefox browser (Docker)eve-firefox:latest1 vCPU, 2,048 MB

How to open this lab

  1. Sign in to your workspace at lab.cloudlabbox.com.

  2. In File Manager, open Shared, then the folder Check Point CCSA guided labs.

  3. Open 05 - Ordered layers - an Application Control layer after the firewall layer and start its nodes, then open Lab Tasks for the scenario and the steps.

The lab is read-only. You can start the nodes and configure the devices, but changes to the topology can’t be saved. To change it, rebuild it in your own folder.

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