You are the firewall administrator with one management server managing one firewall. The system
status displays a computer icon with a ‘!’ symbol in the status column. Which of the following is the
most likely cause?
A.
The destination object has been defined as external.
B.
The Rule Base is unable to resolve the IP address.
C.
The firewall has been halted.
D.
The firewall is unprotected, no security policy is loaded.
E.
Nothing is wrong.
Explanation:
You can check it out in the Syngress Book “Checkpoint NG: Next Generation Security
Administration”, the “!” means that the firewall module does not have a security policy installed, so
its insecure. This could happen if your firewall module becomes corrupted and it can’t fetch a valid
security policy either from the management module or from the local host.
Incorrect Answers:
A: when we have an object as external, we can’t see the status of it because we are not managing
it from that management console, we don’t either get a “!” next to it.
B: The rulebase doesn’t resolve IP address, it doesn’t make sense.
C: The “!” is not a valid representation for a halted firewall, it’s a representation for a unsecured
one.
E: a “!” status next to one of our modules it’s a bad thing, it means that we have our gateway
unsecured, without enforcing any security policy.