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Radware's FireProof High Availability with Load Balancing Product Receives OPSEC Certification for Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1

MAHWAH, NJ, February 12, 2001—Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR), a leading provider of Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) solutions that bring certainty to dynamic networks, ensuring optimal, continuous, personalized and secure service, today announced it has received OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) certification for its award-winning FireProof product from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet.

"24x7 availability and confidence in the security of assets are key requirements in the e-business strategy of any company," said Bradley Brown, director of business development for Check Point Software Technologies. "The combination of VPN-1/FireWall-1 and Radware's FireProof is a best-of-breed solution that provides the security, performance and availability needed for e-business."

Prior to OPSEC certification, Radware's FireProof product endured a number of different testing
scenarios with Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1, all of which proved seamless interoperability and integration. By using FireProof Application Switches with Check Point's industry-leading VPN-1/FireWall-1, customers can deploy proven solutions to build mission-critical networks for secure e-business.

FireProof intelligently distributes traffic of up to 100 firewalls, providing network certainty by eliminating bottlenecks and single points of failure. This product line features SmartNAT,™ firewall grouping and SNMP Management capabilities, making it the most feature-rich and scalable solution on the market. FireProof offers end users full path health monitoring as well as enhanced firewall traffic management and performance. The FireProof Application Switch is the fastest and most efficient firewall traffic management device on the market.

"Radware is the only vendor in this space to offer an end-to-end traffic management solution, so it's extremely important that we ensure each piece of the puzzle is the most reliable, responsive and secure that it can be," said Rod Jones, director of strategic products for Radware. "The OPSEC certification of the FireProof validates our market leadership in firewall traffic management and further improves the customer's network performance with bullet-proof security and unmatched ease of integration and scalability."

About Check Point's™ OPSEC
OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 270 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 Radware
Radware's suite of Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) products is designed to optimize the end
user experience by eliminating network uncertainty and downtime. Radware's product line combines its latest application switching technology and architecture with the company's industry proven traffic management software to help users keep their sites available 24 hours a day. Radware offers a broad range of ITM solutions to service providers, e-commerce businesses and corporate enterprises that require uninterrupted availability and optimal performance of IP-based applications. Users receive optimal, continuous, secure and personal service with the use of Radware's award-winning ITM solutions: Web Server Director, Cache Server Director, FireProof and LinkProof. Radware's Application Switches bring certainty to dynamic networks with products that guarantee the best service from click to content. Get certain with Radware. For
more information, please visit us at www.radware.com or call 888-234-5763.

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This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Internet traffic management industry, changes in demand for Internet traffic management products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders, and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form F-1.

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