(openPR) - Era of sacrifice and compromise is over for network administrators seeking strict security with the highest levels of network performance

November 15, 2007 – Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the immediate availability of the new VPN-1® Power ™ Multi-core. Leveraging Check Point’s patent-pending CoreXL acceleration technology announced last May, VPN-1 Power Multi-core redefines the balance of security and performance; ensuring organizations receive the highest levels of integrated application security without impeding network traffic and degrading an end user’s Internet experience.

The new VPN-1 Power Multi-core leverages open multi-core architectures, for example the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series and others, in order to deliver unprecedented processing speeds of up to 5.3 Mbps integrated intrusion prevention throughput with a security profile designed to protect the perimeter of most large enterprise networks.

“Thanks to Check Point’s innovations, custom ASICs are quickly becoming obsolete,” said Paulo Vieira, network administrator at Porto University. “Before we deployed VPN-1 Multi-core on our network, we were constantly faced with the need to make no-win compromises between security and network performance. But with Check Point, there is no compromise, and we are free to focus our efforts on leveraging our network for business growth.”

“As dynamic application-layer threats proliferate, VPN-1 Power Multi-core gives administrators predictably high levels of performance previously unattainable. CIOs need to be able to deploy advanced business applications and not worry about how to balance security risks and application performance,” said Bob Egner, vice president of product management at Check Point. “With VPN-1 Power Multi-core, there is no trade off. Applications will be able to have the service level the CIO wants and have the level of protection a CSO needs.”

Key performance statistics include:

-- 12 Gbps firewall inspection provides data center level speed for the most demanding enterprise environments

-- 1.8 Gbps intrusion prevention inspection with strict protection file (70% of protections turned on) offers maximum security without compromising performance

-- Over 2 million packets per second inspected to improve end user experience for new applications such as VoIP and multimedia applications

-- Over 60,000 new connections/second for sites with a high number of transactions such as banks or data centers

Check Point VPN-1 Power Multi-core is available immediately. Pricing upgrades to existing gateways are available starting at $2,500US, with new gateways starting at $15,000US.



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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leader in securing the Internet. The company is a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, personal firewall, data security and VPN markets. Check Point’s PURE focus is on IT security with its extensive portfolio of network security, data security and security management solutions. Through its NGX platform, Check Point delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of security solutions to protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company also offers market leading data security solutions through the Pointsec product line, protecting and encrypting sensitive corporate information stored on PCs and other mobile computing devices. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and additional consumer security solutions protect millions of consumer PCs from hackers, spyware and data theft. Extending the power of the Check Point solution is its Open Platform for Security (OPSEC), the industry's framework and alliance for integration and interoperability with "best-of-breed" solutions from hundreds of leading companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of Check Point partners around the world and its customers include 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes.