On this episode, we talk about The Great Exposure Reset and some recent AI news.

See also: From Prompt Testing to AI Red Teaming at Enterprise Scale

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PhoneBoy features the following posts from the CheckMates community:

• Certificate and CRL validation fails from March 1, 2026
• Effective Network Management with SD-WAN January 2026: Video, Slides, and Q&A
• Nano Agent / Nano Services in Quantum SD-WAN: the Control Plane
• Tech Tip - log ingestion problem (change log level to reduce log data)
• Session logs not showing Xlate information
• CVE-2025-53057 and Check Point
• GA Announcement: API Request Step & Webhook Trigger are now available in Playblocks
• R82.10 Video Series
• Troubleshooting Logging
  
  

PhoneBoy discusses the recent CheckMates Fest and a bunch of community-driven topics.

• CheckMates Fest 2026: Video and Q&A
• Congratulations to our first MVP Diamond members: Heiko and Andy!
• Time synchronization between orchestrator and its SGMs - does it matter?
• Mini Concept Series
• Use API to determine what JHF is installed
• NAT Rules not matching with new R82 gateway in place.
• Zero Phishing in R82.10 - What's New?
• This Month’s Spotlight - 3 Features You Should Start Using Today 🚀- December 2025

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.