Check point
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Check Point headquarters, Tel Aviv, Israel
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| Traded as |
NASDAQ: CHKP NASDAQ-100 Component |
| Industry |
Security software Computer hardware |
| Founded |
Ramat Gan, Israel (1993) |
| Founders |
Gil Shwed Marius Nacht Shlomo Kramer |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel and San Carlos, California |
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Key people
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Gil Shwed, (Founder & CEO) |
| Products |
FireWall-1, VPN-1, UTM-1, Check Point Integrity, Intrusion prevention systems, Endpoint, security, Security appliances, Web Application Security |
| Revenue |
 US$1.629 billion (2015) |
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US$685 million (2015) |
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Number of employees
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3,500 (2016) |
| Subsidiaries | ZoneAlarm, SofaWare, Easy2comply |
| Website | www.checkpoint.com |
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli multinational provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, mobile security, data security and security management.
As of 2016[update] the company has approximately 4,000 employees worldwide. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company has development centers in Israel, California (ZoneAlarm), Sweden (Former Protect Data development centre), and Belarus. The company has main offices in the United States, in San Carlos, California, in Dallas, Texas, and in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada).
Check Point was established in Ramat-Gan, Israel in 1993, by Gil Shwed (CEO as of 2016[update]), Marius Nacht (Chairman as of 2016[update]) and Shlomo Kramer (who left Check Point in 2003). Shwed had the initial idea for the company’s core technology known as stateful inspection, which became the foundation for the company's first product, FireWall-1; soon afterwards they also developed one of the world’s first VPN products, VPN-1. Shwed developed the idea while serving in the Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces, where he worked on securing classified networks.
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