Following the departure of a staff member, I find myself with minimal experience of, but responsibility for, a clients' Checkpoint firewall. This is FP2, but an upgrade to the latest version is planned for 9-12 months time and I need to be able to cope with both.
I have been offered some training by my company, but am trying to figure out what will best help me both with supporting what we have now _and_ with what we'll be upgrading to.
Training centres offer courses on NG-AI (I, II & III - I could probably get the first two, as they seem to be about the firewall and vpn respectively) and correspondingly NGX I, II & III, with what looks like an "upgrade" course for parts I & II combined, for CCSE certified people.
I am not sure how NG-AI mentioned in training brochures relates to what we have, would it be better to take the courses for NG-AI and try to get the upgrade course a bit further down the line, or would the NGX course allow me to get to grips with what we have now.
I should add that the environment is fairly stable, with just a very few rulechanges required occasionaly (1 every other month?), and no vpn changes for several months AFAIK. The main reason we're uncomfortable is if any troubleshooting was required.