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Mon, January 5, 2009 Check Point Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Enterprise Network Firewalls Magic Quadrant
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant in Gartner's recent Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls1.
Describing companies in the Leaders Quadrant, Gartner states: "The Leaders quadrant contains a mix of large and midsize vendors, with the common element of making products that are built for enterprise requirements. These requirements include a wide range of models, support for virtualization and virtual LANs, and a management and reporting capability that is designed for complex and high-volume environments, such as multitier administration and rules/policy minimization. NGFW capability is an important element as enterprises move away from having dedicated IPS appliances at their perimeter and remote locations. Vendors in this quadrant lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, providing expert capability rather than treating the firewall as a commodity and having a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products. Common characteristics include handling the highest throughput with minimal performance loss and options for hardware acceleration."
Since pioneering the enterprise firewall in 1993 based on its patented stateful-inspection technology, Check Point has continued to innovate with Application Intelligence, Malicious Code Protection, and the industry's first modular security management plug-in architecture. Check Point's firewall security products are complemented by unified threat management, providing a variety of security applications including IPSec and SSL VPN remote access, anti-virus, anti-spam and web filtering. Today, Check Point's security gateways offer even more advanced security features such as integrated intrusion prevention, virtualization, and high performance acceleration and high availability for the largest enterprises and data centers. Beyond the security gateway, Check Point offers a comprehensive Total Security portfolio of network, data and endpoint protection that is unmatched in the market.
"Firewalls have evolved from access control devices between networks into advanced multi-function gateways providing information protection from the perimeter to data centers, and now also in the cloud. Our continued innovation has made the Check Point VPN-1 product family into market share leaders, offering a complete portfolio of advanced unified security gateway solutions for both physical networks and virtual applications," said Juliette Sultan, head of global marketing at Check Point. "We believe our position in the leaders quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls is a result of the tremendous value our security solutions offer to our customers."
For more information about Check Point Network Security solutions, visit [ http://www.checkpoint.com/products/network_security/ ].
About the Gartner Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted November 21, 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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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1 November 21, 2008: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, by Greg Young and John Pescatore
