FUJITSU AND CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT IN JAPAN
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Check Point Solutions Selected as Key Offerings Within Fujitsu's @SecureVision Security Strategy Tokyo, Japan and Redwood City, Calif. - April 7, 1999 - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the leading provider of secure enterprise networking solutions, today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Fujitsu Limited, a leading global provider of information technology products and solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Fujitsu will distribute all Check Point solutions in Japan, including the company's award-winning Check Point FireWall-1 enterprise security solution, Check Point VPN-1™ product family and Check Point™ FloodGate-1 enterprise-wide bandwidth management solution. Additionally, Fujitsu will become a member of Check Point Software's OPSEC (Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity) Alliance, the industry's foremost enterprise security initiative. Fujitsu will distribute Check Point Software solutions to its extensive base of resellers throughout Japan via its @SecureVision integrated security strategy. Through @SecureVision, Fujitsu offers best-of-breed security solutions that ensure safer, tamper-proof corporate information systems and enable secure electronic business communications over intranets, extranets and the Internet. The @SecureVision strategy features product offerings from several leading technology companies, including Fujitsu and Check Point Software, and provides solutions for remote access control, IP address management and integrated enterprise security. As a member of the OPSEC Alliance, Fujitsu will integrate Fujitsu proprietary systems such as PKI security and system management software with Check Point's offerings, including FireWall-1 and the VPN-1 product family. With OPSEC, customers can easily integrate a full spectrum of security applications, defined and driven by a single, central enterprise-wide security policy. "Check Point is pleased to form this strong partnership with Fujitsu," said Limor Bakal, vice president of international sales and marketing for Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. "Fujitsu's extensive reseller channel coupled with Check Point's market-proven secure enterprise networking solutions will provide Japanese customers the comprehensive solutions they need to conduct secure communication over their Intranet and Extranet sites." "Fujitsu began selling FireWall-1 four years ago. Our direct partnership with Check Point Software allows Fujitsu to provide managed firewall, VPN and operation monitoring services, and to better respond to various customer needs," said Mr. Tatsuzumi Furukawa, Group President, Network & Contents Business Group of Fujitsu Limited. The Fujitsu distribution agreement further strengthens Check Point's market leading position in Japan. A Dataquest study published in June 1997 recognized Check Point Software Technologies as the market share leader in the Japanese firewall market with 73.9 percent of the market in installed units and 47.9 percent of the market in revenues.
Check Point Software Technologies
is the worldwide leader in secure enterprise networking solutions.
The company's integrated architecture includes network security
(FireWall-1, VPN-1 and Open Security Manager), traffic control
(FloodGate-1 and ConnectControl) and IP address management
(Meta IP). Check Point solutions enable customers to implement
centralized policy-based management with enterprise-wide distributed
deployment. Via the OPSEC Alliance, Check Point's products
seamlessly integrate with "best-of-breed" products
from nearly 200 leading industry partners. The company has
U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California and international
headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For more information, please
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Fujitsu Limited is a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace. Founded in Japan in 1935 as a telephone equipment maker, the Fujitsu Group had consolidated revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31,1998. With over 500 group companies, Fujitsu is one of the world's largest suppliers of computers and information systems solutions, telecommunications and semiconductor products, software and services. The Fujitsu Group has over 180,000 employees worldwide and operations in more than 100 countries. Homepage: http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/index-e.html. ### (c)1999 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. Check Point, the Check Point logo, FireWall-1, FloodGate-1, INSPECT, IQ Engine, Open Security Manager, Open Security Extension, OPSEC, Provider-1, RemoteLink, SecuRemote, VPN-1 Accelerator Card, Certificate Manager, and ConnectControl are trademarks or registered trademarks of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Meta IP and Meta DNS are trademarks of MetaInfo, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. RealSecure is a trademark of Internet Security Systems, Inc. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |