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CHECK POINT SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW RELEASE OF VPN-1 AS BASIS OF SECURE VIRTUAL NETWORK (SVN) ARCHITECTURE

Integrated VPN with Advanced Capabilities to Secure Complete Internet Environments

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., – August 30, 1999 – Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP) today announced the availability of a major new release of its market-leading integrated Check Point™ VPN-1™/FireWall-1 suite for secure Internet communications. The new product suite represents a significant advance in VPN solutions and provides the basis for Check Point Software's Secure Virtual Network™ (SVN) architecture, incorporating all of the critical elements for a secure Internet environment. Unlike currently available VPNs, the SVN architecture provides secure and seamless Internet connectivity between users, networks, systems and applications across the Internet, intranets and extranets.

The new VPN-1/FireWall-1 product family integrates three new areas of functionality critical to enterprise-wide VPN deployment: high availability, PKI interoperability and integrated bandwidth management (QoS). As with previous versions of the product, VPN-1 is fully integrated with FireWall-1 to ensure seamless security and comprehensive centralized management.

"Our VPN-1 product family has quickly become the clear market leader because of its integrated security, high performance and centralized management," said Asheem Chandna, vice president of marketing and business development for Check Point Software Technologies. "Today we are extending our VPN leadership to solve the evolving needs of E-business and complete Internet environments."

1. High Availability – Today's e-business requires a fail-safe, secure infrastructure. A VPN gateway shutdown of just minutes can mean a substantial financial loss or risk to a company. VPN-1 now uniquely enables sophisticated high availability solutions to provide transparent failover capabilities for business-critical VPN gateways without the loss of connections that are in progress. In addition, VPN-1 SecuRemote™ remote access VPN software and the new VPN-1 SecureClient now uniquely feature Resilient Remote Access with built-in intelligence to automatically connect to any available designated corporate VPN-1 gateway. This provides organizations with an added level of reliability and ease-of-use—if a primary gateway is unreachable, VPN-1 clients automatically connect to other designated VPN-1 gateways. VPN-1 also supports load balancing and clustering, enabling a single gateway to support tens of thousands of concurrent VPN sessions and OC-3 data rates (155 Mbps).

2. PKI Interoperability – E-business and extranet environments are evolving, creating the need to connect partner sites which have potentially different PKI systems. The new VPN-1 release includes Check Point Software's OpenPKI technology, uniquely enabling simultaneous support for digital certificates from multiple vendors' certificate authorities. With this release of VPN-1, Check Point Software now provides the industry's most comprehensive support for multi-vendor PKIs, including AOL/Netscape, Baltimore Technologies, Entrust Technologies, GTE CyberTrust, IBM, Microsoft, Security Dynamics, SPYRUS, VeriSign, XCert International and others.

3. Integrated Bandwidth Management (QoS) – In moving network traffic from dedicated or dial-up lines to VPNs, companies must maintain high levels of performance, especially for business-critical communications. Check Point Software's new VPN-1 optimizes VPN performance by integrating advanced bandwidth management at the policy management level. By prioritizing traffic prior to encryption, VPN-1 enables high-performance and secure VPN communications to be implemented according to business importance. In addition, a graphical real-time traffic monitor provides an easy-to-use tool for visually identifying sources of congestion and usage trends on VPN links. Finally, the integrated logging and reporting capabilities enable corporations to implement performance and security service level agreements (SLAs) in combination with VPN deployments.

Pricing and Availability
The new VPN-1/FireWall-1 suite for secure Internet communications security is available immediately from Check Point Software's partners, the world's leading security solution resellers, integrators, service providers and OEMs. Pricing for VPN-1/FireWall-1 starts at $3,495 (U.S. list pricing).

About Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. The company's integrated architecture includes network security (VPN-1/FireWall, Provider-1 and Check Point RealSecure), traffic control (FloodGate-1 and ConnectControl), and IP address management (Meta IP). Check Point Software solutions enable customers to implement centralized policy-based management with enterprise-wide distributed deployment. Via the OPSEC Alliance, Check Point Software's products seamlessly integrate with "best-of-breed" products from more than 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 call (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit http://www.checkpoint.com or http://www.opsec.com.

[Editors' note: please refer to the three separate press releases detailing the related announcements.]

 

1999 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. Check Point, the Check Point logo, FireWall-1, FloodGate-1, INSPECT, IQ Engine, Meta IP, Open Security Extension, OPSEC, Provider-1, User-to-Address Mapping, VPN-1, VPN-1 Accelerator Card, VPN-1 Appliance, VPN-1 Certificate Manager, VPN-1 Gateway, VPN-1 SecuRemote, VPN-1 SecureServer, Secure Virtual Network and ConnectControl are trademarks or registered trademarks of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. or its affiliates. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The products described in this document are protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,606,668 and 5,835,726 and may be protected by other U.S. Patents, foreign patents, or pending applications.