PhoneBoy discusses AI Risk Mapping, AI Security Masters, and some great posts from the CheckMates community you may have missed.

• AI Risk Mapping
• AI Security Masters Series
• AI Security Masters Session 1: How AI is Reshaping Our World
• How to Chat with Your Check Point Gateways using Claude Desktop
• Check Point MCP Servers
• This Month’s Spotlight - 3 Revisions Features You Should Start Using Today - October 2025
• Session Flow for Administrators
• Videos for Configuring Access Control and Threat Prevention
• HTTPS Inspection Inbound With More Than One Certificate
• Configuring an AWS to Onsite VPN
• Can We Disable the HTTP Protocol Parser
• SSH Inspected by HTTPS Inspection
• Configuring SSH Inspection in Threat Prevention
• Performance Limitations of Virtual Switches with Legacy VSX?

Upcoming events:

• CheckMates Fest 2026 on 14 January 2026
• Quantum SD-WAN Monitoring TechTalk on 21 January 2026
• AI Security Masters Session 2: Hacking with AI, The Dark Side of Innovation on 22 January 2026

PhoneBoy interviews Cyber Security Technologist and Evangelist Marc Davidson discussing his recent blog posts on Hybrid Mesh and credential theft, more specifically on Identity Awareness in Hybrid Mesh.

Also, join us for CheckMates Fest 2026 on January 14th and vote on the best in the community in 2025!

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PhoneBoy interviews Cyber Security Technologist and Evangelist Marc Davidson discussing his recent blog posts on Hybrid Mesh and credential theft when a question was asked: how do you ensure policies are implemented consistently across vendors. We also talk about the release of R82.10, which we did a TechTalk on a few weeks back.

PhoneBoy interviews Cyber Security Technologist and Evangelist Marc Davidson discussing his recent blog post on How Hybrid Mesh Defeats Credential Attacks, the fourth in a series on credential theft. (We discuss the third one in a future episode)

PhoneBoy interviews Cyber Security Technologist and Evangelist Marc Davidson discussing his recent blog post on Why Defenses Fail: The Fragmentation Problem, the second in a series on credential theft.

PhoneBoy also highlights a new feature in Infinity Playblocks called IOC Enforcement Connector.

PhoneBoy interviews Cyber Security Technologist and Evangelist Marc Davidson discussing his recent blog post on Defending Against Credential Attacks with a Hybrid Mesh Architecture. This episode discusses what credentials actually are and why letting them get out might be dangerous.

We also highlight a series of posts by Chris Atkinson providing tips on Dynamic Routing, specifically Router ID, Default Originate, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, Protocol Rank, and Connection Persistence.

In this episode of CheckMates Go, we'll play an excerpt from our recent Access Control and Threat Prevention Best Practices session that focuses on a key service that drives both: ThreatCloud AI.

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