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Check Point Software Technologies Awarded "Best Partnering Alliance" Industry Award from Software Business Magazine

Company's OPSEC Alliance Captures Number One Position for Best Partnering Category

 REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 30, 2000 – Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that Software Business magazine has awarded the company the "Best Partnering Alliance" across the entire software industry for its Open Platform for Security (OPSEC) Alliance. The award, chosen by the magazine's editors and reporters, underscores Check Point's strategy to enable open, "best-of-breed" solutions, providing customers choice and centralized policy management across all aspects of Internet security.

Check Point Software's OPSEC Alliance sets the standard for Internet security and is the industry's leading framework for Internet security integration and interoperability. The OPSEC Alliance includes industry-leading companies with "best-of-breed" product solutions that integrate tightly with Check Point Software Technologies' Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture. OPSEC- integrated products provide customers with choice and centralized management across all aspects of Internet security.

Check Point's OPSEC Alliance comprises almost 250 partners, including vendors such as IBM (NYSE:IBM), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL); new partners who have recently joined the Alliance include Arrowpoint Communications (Nasdaq: ARPT), BMC Software (Nasdaq: BMCS), France Telecom (NYSE: FTE), Network Associates (Nasdaq:NETA).

"Check Point Software's OPSEC Alliance has helped create numerous industry advances in securing the Internet and gives customers the choice to build their security infrastructure from the industry's leading vendors," said John Cargile, Managing Editor of Software Business. "Software Business recognizes this endeavor as a successful strategy for Check Point, its partners and the industry as a whole."

"We are proud that Software Business magazine has recognized OPSEC as the best partnering alliance across the entire software industry," said Asheem Chandna, vice-president of business development and product management for Check Point Software Technologies. "OPSEC provides our customers and partners with best-of-breed choice and guaranteed interoperability for Internet Security."

About Check Point Software Technologies

Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. The Company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture provides the infrastructure that enables secure and reliable Internet communications. SVN secures business-to-business (B2B) communications between networks, systems, applications and users across the Internet, Intranets and extranets. Check Point's Open Platform for Security (OPSEC) provides the framework for integration and interoperability with "best-of-breed" solutions from almost 250 leading industry partners. For more information, please call us at (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit us on the Web at http://www.checkpoint.com or at http://www.opsec.com.

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