I used this as my study guide for the Nokia Security Administrator test, as well as a reference book at work. I work a mixed bag of Checkpoint firewalls at my office and this helps when I have been off of a Nokia for a long time. If you are using this for your cert, you will need access to a Nokia appliance as well to practice...

I've been working with the Nokia Appliances and the IPSO OS, since they were first released. These boxes loaded with Check Point FW-1 provide top notch security. There are lots of CP books out there, and I was surprised that there wasn't a Nokia book also. I ordered this right when it came out, and the book has been a huge help to me. Its well written, comprehensive, and concise. The UNIX appendx at the end is very good, becaue you dont need to be a UNIX guru, but you do need to know the basics if you have to go beyond Voyager and get into the command line stuff.

Everything you need to know to prepare a Nokia Box for Check Point is in here. The author uses a step by step approach to configuring your Nokia box and avoids the ugly details of Unix when he can. Finally, you don't have to be a Unix guru to deploy a super secure platform from which to run Check Point. Warning: This is not a Check Point book and it does not talk about secure network design or any of the other issues involved in network security.