Check Point Recognises Leading European Partners for Their Total Security Solutions

Customers and partners welcome new ranges of advanced, easy-to-manage enterprise platforms for comprehensive security

June 10, 2008 – Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, recognized the success of three of the company’s leading European channel partners at its annual customer and partner conference, Check Point Experience 2008, with its Partner of the Year awards.

Over 1000 European channel partners and customers attended the two-day event, held in Prague. During the event, Check Point announced its new, high-end Power-1 and UTM-1 Total Security appliances. These new appliances deliver comprehensive security from small offices and branches to data centres.

The two Power-1 appliances offer the best price-to-performance ratio firewall (under $4 per Mbps) with a high level of security for large enterprise sites and data centres. Power-1 appliances combine firewall, IPSec, virtual private network (VPN) and intrusion prevention with acceleration technologies, for multi-Gbps environments.

The three new UTM-1 appliances are aimed at enterprise sites of all sizes, with pricing starting at just $4,800. They combine Check Point’s leading application and network-layer firewall, site-to-site and remote access VPN, gateway antivirus and anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, Web filtering and comprehensive messaging security.


The award-winning Check Point Partners of the Year were:

- PureAdvantage Partner of the Year awards: Integralis AG, a European market leader in security systems integration; and GFI Italia S.P.A., the leading developer of network, content and messaging security solutions

- Data Security Partner of the Year award: Software Box Ltd, Experts in Information Assurance, providing specialist knowledge, products and services to both public & private sector customers

"As Europe’s premier Security Provider, we are very pleased to have our work recognised with the Check Point PUREAdvantage Partner Award," said Graham Jones, COO of Integralis. "Our clients trust us to give them the best advice and solutions for their data security needs, and Check Point's range is a key element of our offering."

"We were delighted to receive this prestigious award from Check Point" commented Scott Cattaneo, Commercial Manager at Software Box. "Data is a key asset to a business and this re-affirms the trust that our customer's place in our ability to design, deploy and support end to end data security solutions".

“Check Point continues to lead the security industry by integrating its products into a single ‘Total Security’ platform, making it easier than ever before for customers to protect their networks. The reaction to our new solutions was extremely gratifying,” said Amnon Bar-Lev, vice president of field operations at Check Point. “CPX also focused on recognising and rewarding the great efforts made by our key partners through the past year. They have proven that complex security challenges are simplified with Check Point’s solutions.”

Bruno Darmon, VP EMEA at Check Point said: “Check Point Experience 2008 recognized and rewarded the efforts, drive and success of all our partner organizations. It was also very much a forward-looking event, with customers and partners excited by the revenue and growth opportunities that Check Point’s new Power-1 and UTM-1 Total Security appliances offer them.”

Craig Coward
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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is the leader in securing the Internet. Check Point offers total security solutions featuring a unified gateway, single endpoint agent and single management architecture, customized to fit customers’ dynamic business needs. This combination is unique and is a result of our leadership and innovation in the enterprise firewall, personal firewall/endpoint, data security and VPN markets.

Check Point’s pure focus is on information security. Through its NGX platform, Check Point delivers a unified security architecture to protect business communications and resources, including corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company also offers market-leading endpoint and data security solutions with Check Point Endpoint Security products, protecting and encrypting sensitive corporate information stored on PCs and other mobile computing devices. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumer PCs from hackers, spyware and identity theft. 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.

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