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Check Point Establishes New Standard with Next Generation OPSEC Integration

Next Generation Provides Ground-breaking Levels of Integration Through OPSEC

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 8, 2001 — Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced new integration capabilities for Check Point VPN-1®/FireWall-1® Next Generation that raise the standard for security integration. These advanced integration capabilities enable OPSEC™ (Open Platform for Security) partners and in-house developers to more tightly integrate their applications with Check Point's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture, resulting in higher levels of security, expanded manageability and greater ease of use.

As the most widely supported security framework in the industry, Check Point's OPSEC alliance provides an open choice of best-of-breed security products and platforms, tightly integrated and assured through certification.

"We have dramatically extended the OPSEC Framework with the Check Point Next Generation release," said Asheem Chandna, vice president of business development and product management, Check Point Software Technologies. "The new OPSEC capabilities further meet the needs for end-to-end management and advanced client security.

" New OPSEC integration capabilities in Check Point Next Generation include expanded management integration and advanced client security:

Expanded Management Integration

  • Integrated Application Monitoring - OPSEC applications now can be monitored centrally together with Check Point products using the new Next Generation System Status Viewer. This capability simplifies administration by providing a global view of the entire security solution, reducing the number of status interfaces an administrator needs to track.

  • Integrated Security Updates for Applications - OPSEC applications can utilize the new SecureUpdate feature of Check Point Next Generation to automatically update third-party software together with Check Point products, ensuring that security is always up-to-date.

  • Integrated Policy Access - OPSEC applications can now integrate with Check Point's security policies, objects and rule base via a programmatic interface to provide a new level of security automation and consistency.

  • Optimized Data Retrieval - OPSEC applications, such as reporting and auditing products, can now receive security log data in a customized and highly efficient manner by utilizing data compression and filtering to gather specific information in the fastest possible manner.

"BMC Software is looking forward to the new management interfaces offered in the OPSEC SDK Next Generation," said David Samia, director of product marketing, Enterprise eBusiness Management, BMC Software (NYSE:BMC), one company taking advantage of enhanced management in NG. "We look forward to utilizing these interfaces to further the capabilities offered in our OPSEC Certified PATROL for Firewalls product line that ensures firewall availability and reliability. These interfaces will enable us to share critical management information with Check Point, easing the cost of maintenance configuration and helping us better optimize our customer's environments."

Advanced Client Security:
The OPSEC Framework now enables standards-based seamless integration of smart cards, enabling customers to boost their VPN client authentication security easily and transparently. In addition, a new OPSEC interface for the VPN client enables customers to perform security compliance checks involving OPSEC solutions on desktop or laptop systems as a requirement to access to the network or VPN. These security compliance checks provide an added dimension to securing the client.

Gemplus (NASDAQ: GEMP), the world's leading provider of solutions empowered by smart cards, is one company utilizing the new VPN client authentication capabilities. "Smart cards provide an ideal mechanism to store sensitive information such as a user's authentication credentials," said Sven Hammar, Vice President of Gemplus' Financial and Security Services. "With the OPSEC SDK Next Generation, our joint customers can now take advantage of Check Point's industry leading security platform and implement even stronger authentication using the GemSAFE smart card."

"Providing virus protection at all layers of the enterprise is the most efficient and effective way to reduce the chances of infection," said Brian McElroy, Director of Business Development at Trend Micro (NASDAQ: TMIC), a leading network antivirus and Internet content security software and services provider. "Through the OPSEC SDK Next Generation interfaces to VPN-1 SecureClient, we will be able to ensure that remote users connecting to the corporate network will have the same level of virus protection as those inside the network."

Availability
The new OPSEC SDK Next Generation is now available for companies to take advantage of the new levels of integration in Check Point Next Generation. It can be downloaded from http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/programs/opsec.html. In addition, join the industry's leading Internet security developers at the annual OPSEC Developers Conference, October 16-17 at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, California. For more information, please visit URL no longer available.

As the industry's only comprehensive Internet security framework, OPSEC once again raises the standard for integration with the advanced capabilities of Check Point Next Generation - extending Check Point's market-leading Internet security position and further expanding customer options for best-of-breed integrated Internet security solutions.

About Check Point's OPSEC
OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 300 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program information, including partner and product listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com.

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 over 300 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.

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