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Check point

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Public
Traded as NASDAQCHKP
NASDAQ-100 Component
Industry Security software
Computer hardware
Founded Ramat Gan, Israel
(1993; 24 years ago (1993))
Founders Gil Shwed
Marius Nacht
Shlomo Kramer
Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel and San Carlos, California
Key people
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 Increase US$1.629 billion (2015)
Increase US$685 million (2015)
Number of employees
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 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), Marius Nacht (Chairman as of 2016) 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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