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First-time
awards recognize innovative customer and partner
enterprise security and management implementations
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.
- October 19, 1998 - Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKPF) today announced that the company will
present its first-ever Check Point Excellence Awards at Networld+Interop
in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, October 22, at 10:00 AM.
These awards will recognize some of the most innovative and
successful implementations of Check Point enterprise solutions
by customers and their resellers and VARs. This year's
Check Point Excellence Award winners span the consumer products,
banking, government, advertising and publishing markets.
"We received numerous outstanding
nominations for this, our first Check Point Excellence Awards
program," said Dr. Deborah Triant Rieman, CEO and president
of Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. "With so many
successful deployments of our solutions, we felt that the
time had come to give recognition to those organizations that
are designing real business solutions and solving real problems
using our products."
The criteria for receiving a
Check Point Excellence Award included: innovation of implementation
using Check Point Software solutions; quantitative demonstration
of how the deployments provided a return on investment to
the business; enterprise-wide implementation focus; and use
of multiple Check Point Software and third-party OPSEC products.
The recipients of the 1998 Check
Point Excellence Award winners include:
- The Boston Globe:
To deliver the news on time and maintain a competitive edge,
The Boston Globe is taking advantage of the Check Point™
VPN-1™ RemoteLink hardware-based virtual private networking
solution to provide secure site-to-site communication with
writers and contributors regardless of their location. The
plug- and-play capabilities of RemoteLink combined with
Check Point's award-winning policy-based management
console have allowed The Globe to configure the VPN and
ship it to remote bureaus to establish secure communications
with ease; www.boston.com/globe/.
- CheckFree Corporation
and SecureIT: CheckFree Corporation and security solutions
provider SecureIT teamed up to design a network security
solution equivalent to that of a steel vault. Using the
market-leading Check Point FireWall-1 and Check Point Real
Secure™, the leading intrusion detection product from
OPSEC (Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity)
partner Internet Security Systems (ISS), CheckFree and SecureIT
developed a robust security solution with high availability
and reliability worthy of supporting online services for
some of the nation's largest banks; www.checkfree.com;
www.secure-it.net.
- The Clorox Company:
With more than 10,000 network nodes and rapid growth of
the IP name and address space, The Clorox Company is using
Check Point Meta IP™ to reduce the overhead costs and
the frustrations of manually managing and tracking these
numerous IP addresses. With this IP address management solution,
Clorox has made significant progress in increasing flexibility
and centralizing management of distributed services (DHCP
and Dynamic DNS); www.clorox.com.
- The Forum Corporation
and UUNET, An MCI WorldCom Company : With UUNET providing
the backbone and security services, The Forum Corporation
is using Check Point VPN-1 to deliver global Web-based workplace
learning systems. Additionally, Forum has used the VPN-1
software solution to establish permanent VPN connections,
linking its Boston office to offices in Hong Kong, London
and Toronto, as well as to partners in Forum's Learning
Technology consortium, Forum++; www.forum.com;
www.uunet.com.
- Kansas Bureau of Investigation
and FishNet Consulting Inc.: The Kansas Bureau of Investigation
has been at the forefront of agencies working to improve
officers' access to criminal histories, thereby protecting
the officers from walking into potentially deadly situations
without adequate back up. Working with FishNet Consulting
Inc., KBI has tapped the capabilities of the Check Point
VPN-1 software solution and products from several OPSEC
partners to dramatically increase the speed, security and
affordability with which criminal histories are transmitted
to remote officers; www.ink.org/public/kbi/;
www.kcfishnet.com.
- MacManus Group and Dataway
Inc.: Using Check Point's enterprise security and
virtual private networking solutions, MacManus Group, a
New York-based conglomerate of advertising and communications
companies, has developed a sophisticated and secure way
to enable global email, intranet, extranet, multimedia,
video conferencing and document sharing. Working with the
Internet security and consulting services of Dataway Inc.,
MacManus has achieved significant cost savings, productivity
gains and strengthened client relationships; www.macmanus.com;
www.dataway.com.
About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd. is a leading provider of policy-based management solutions
for IP networks. The company is dedicated to enabling secure,
reliable, and manageable business communications through its
products which include the world's leading enterprise
security suite, FireWall-1; the industry's leading VPN
family of solutions, VPN-1™; the industry's premier
bandwidth management solution, FloodGate-1™; and MetaIP™
the leading network and IP address management software. The
company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California
and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For product
information, please call (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000
or visit our web site at www.checkpoint.com
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