Frequently Asked Questions

The growing mobility of data and its inherent security risks combined with the increasingly stringent regulatory environment has heightened the need for data security. In its role as a leader and innovator in Internet security, Check Point aims to provide its customers the major security elements integrated into its unified security architecture. Data security has become one of those critical elements and is an important priority to our customers.

Check Point has initiated a new strategy to expand into data security. This includes the proposed acquisition of Pointsec as a first step in Check Point's broader vision to provide comprehensive security for enterprise data. By incorporating data security into our unified security architecture, customers will be able to deploy, manage and monitor both data security and network security policies from a single framework, reducing cost and complexity and improving security effectiveness. Adding data security to its market-leading network security solutions, with a relentless focus on security, uniquely positions Check Point to secure our customers' business.

Check Point remains 100 percent committed to its core products and strategy. This acquisition would be the first step in our strategy for expanding Check Point's unified security architecture into data security. In 2007, we expect to take additional and important steps to expand our leadership in our core markets.

Is Check Point still committed to intrusion prevention?

Check Point continues to be committed to our roadmap to include additional intrusion detection and prevention capabilities in our solutions.

Pointsec is an innovator in the mobile data protection market, enabling organizations of all sizes to take advantage of today's mobile technology without compromising security. Pointsec's award-winning enterprise solutions ensure that data stored on mobile computing devices such as laptops, PDAs, and smartphones remains confidential and secure.

Pointsec is a wholly owned subsidiary of Protect Data AB.

Pointsec offers four major product lines:

• Hard-disk encryption and user identification that secures all information with full protection against intrusion and data theft. This is available for stationary or mobile PCs, PDAs, smartphones and storage devices such as USB memory devices and CDs.
• Media Encryption protects both removable storage media and e-mail in transit by providing automatic real-time encryption. Media Encryption protects laptops, external hard drives, files and folders such as e-mail attachments and small portable devices including memory cards, rewriteable CDs, DVDs and flash drives.
• Pointsec Wireless Solutions, a new business unit of Pointsec, focuses on providing solutions to mobile phone operators, handset manufacturers, and system integrators.
• Comprehensive port and USB protection capabilities from the recently added acquisition of UK based Reflex Software.

Pointsec's headquarters are in Stockholm, Sweden. Pointsec also has offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia with support centers in Sweden, the U.S., and Japan.

Pointsec's customers include enterprise companies and government organizations around the world. Pointsec has sold over 4 million licenses worldwide with over 1 million seats protected with top 25 customers, and has several customers with over 100,000 seats successfully deployed.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a leader in securing the Internet. It is a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, consumer Internet security and VPN markets. Through its NGX platform, the company delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security solutions that protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company's ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and additional consumer security solutions are among the highest rated in the industry today, proactively protecting millions of people from hackers, spyware, viruses and identity 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 thousands 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.

Check Point's international headquarters is located in Ramat-Gan, Israel. The United States headquarters is located in Redwood City, California. Check Point also has more than 60 sales offices around the world and two support centers, which are located in the United States and Israel.

This transaction is subject to obtaining the support of more than 90 percent of the shareholders of Protect Data and other terms. Provided that these conditions are met, the two companies are expected to be combined in early 2007.

• Customers will be able to rely on a single vendor to secure their most vital information security assets—their networks, computer systems and business data.
• Check Point data security solutions will protect customers from data loss, leakage, interception, and misdirection.
• Incorporating data security into Check Point's unified security architecture will provide customers with a comprehensive security solution with maximum efficiency, continuity and resilience.

Check Point would integrate Pointsec's solutions into the Check Point unified security architecture. This will help ensure data security technologies can quickly adapt to changing threats, cooperate with other systems to enforce security policy and enable central administrative control.

The expanded solution portfolio would be delivered through the Check Point worldwide distribution channel. Our partners would be able to deliver secure solutions that secure their customers' most vital information security assets—their networks, computer systems and mobile business data. Until the transaction is closed both companies must conduct business as usual, operating as two separate entities with separate sales channels.

This transaction is subject to obtaining the support of more than 90 percent of the shareholders of Protect Data and other terms. Provided that these conditions are met, the two companies are expected to be combined in early 2007.