checkpoint/ngfw

VendorCheck Point Software Technologies Ltd.
AuthorCrowdStrike
Version1.2.0
Minimum LogScale Version1.142.0

Monitor Check Point Next Generation Firewall for suspicious activity more efficiently by correlating Checkpoint Next Generation Firewall logs across vendors and correlate firewall data with endpoint data to identify patterns that could be early indicators of an attack.

Breaking Changes

This update includes parser changes, which means that data ingested after upgrade will not be backwards compatible with logs ingested with the previous version.

Updating to version 1.0.0 or newer will therefore result in issues with existing queries in for example dashboards or alerts created prior to this version.

See CrowdStrike Parsing Standard (CPS) 1.0 for more details on the new parser schema.

Follow the CPS Migration to update your queries to use the fields and tags that are available in data parsed with version 1.0.0.

Installing the Package in LogScale

Find the repository where you want to send the Next Generation Firewall logs, or create a new one.

  1. Navigate to your repository in the LogScale interface, click Settings and then Packages on the left.

  2. Click Marketplace and install the LogScale package for Checkpoint (i.e. checkpoint/ngfw).

  3. When the package has finished installing, click Ingest tokens on the left still under the Settings.

  4. In the right panel, click + Add Token to create a new token. Give the token an appropriate name (e.g. the name of the server the token is ingesting logs for), and either leave the parser unassigned (instead of setting the parser in the log collector configuration later on), or assign the checkpoint-ngfw parser to it.

    Ingest token

    Figure 5. Ingest Token


    Before leaving this page, view the ingest token and copy it to your clipboard — to save it temporarily elsewhere.

  5. Now that you have a repository set up in LogScale along with an ingest token you're ready to send events to LogScale.

Configurations and Sending the logs to LogScale

First you need to configure Check Point Log Exporter to send all logs types to the syslog server.

Next, configure the Falcon LogScale Collector to ship the logs from your syslog server into LogScale. Follow LogScale Collector Install Falcon Log Collector and Configure Falcon Log Collector. LogScale Collector documentation also provides an example of how you can configure your syslog datasource.

Verify Data is Arriving in LogScale

Once you have completed the above steps the checkpoint data should be arriving in your LogScale repository.

You can verify this by doing a simple search for #Vendor = "checkpoint" | #event.module = "ngfw" to see the events.

Next steps and use cases

You can get actionable insights from your Next Generation Firewall data by hunting for suspicious activity in LogScale using the Searching Data, Dashboards & Widgets or Automation.