Rainfinity's RainWall Is First Firewall High Availability Solution Running on Linux to Receive Check Point OPSEC Certification

Linux Users Can Leverage OPSEC Integration to Deliver High Availability and Load Balancing for VPN-1/FireWall-1

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 30, 2001 - Rainfinity, the provider of high availability software for e-business, today announced that RainWall has become the first software high availability (HA) solution for VPN-1/FireWall-1 running on the Linux platform to receive Open Platform for Security (OPSEC) Certification from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. This certification states that RainWall has undergone rigorous testing under a variety of operating conditions and has proved its ability to integrate seamlessly and provide high availability and load balancing for Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 for the Linux operating system.

"Keeping pace with Rainfinity's commitment to innovation, we were the first software company to receive Check Point's OPSEC certification for high availability with load balancing, and now we are the first software high availability solution on Linux to receive OPSEC certification," said Lou Delzompo, vice president, products for Rainfinity. "The combination of RainWall and Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 creates a massively scalable, secure infrastructure to meet the business needs of customers. Now, companies can leverage the power of RainWall in their Linux environments - with complete validation of Check Point's OPSEC certification."

" Many large enterprises are deploying business critical VPN/firewall solutions on the Linux platform," said Bradley Brown, director of business development for Check Point Software Technologies. "The combination of VPN-1/FireWall-1 and RainWall for Linux provides our customers with the most robust, best-of-breed high availability Internet security solution available today."

To achieve OPSEC certification on Linux, Check Point conducted a series of tests on RainWall under various operating conditions to measure its performance as well as its ability to integrate with Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 on Linux. As an OPSEC partner with an OPSEC-Certified product, Rainfinity offers Check Point customers a high availability, load balancing software-only solution that is scalable, effortless to install, cost effective and guaranteed compatible with Check Point's Linux-based VPN-1/FireWall-1.

RainWall High Availability Software
RainWall provides full scalability, high availability and peak performance for Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 on Solaris, Windows NT and Linux platforms by creating a fully distributed gateway cluster that scales linearly and eliminates single points of failure. RainWall software detects failures in all software and hardware components, including itself, shifting traffic from failing gateways to healthy ones, while reconfiguring itself without disrupting existing connections. RainWall's true dynamic load balancing shares the traffic load among all the nodes in the cluster and scales linearly to any number of nodes to accommodate traffic increases. Additional nodes can be added on the fly without interrupting service. Acquisition costs and cost of ownership are reduced by eliminating the need for dedicated hardware. RainWall is easily configured and managed using its Java-based GUI.

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 Rainfinity
Rainfinity provides high availability software that ensures continuous access to e-business applications. Designed for enterprises and service providers with critical online applications, the company's award-winning software helps organizations maximize revenue and productivity by eliminating the impact of failures, and providing a positive end user experience. Rainfinity's solutions optimize performance of e-business transactions end-to-end, from Internet connections and security to web and e-business applications. Compared to traditional hardware or point product alternatives, Rainfinity's modular and flexible software adapts well to existing environments, simplifies application deployment and administration, and significantly reduces costs.

Rainfinity's customers include Dresdner Bank, Boise-Cascade and Home Shopping Network's HSN.com. Strategic partners are Check Point, Intel Capital, Compaq, Sun and Resonate. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in Brazil, England, France, Germany and the US. More information is available at www.rainfinity.com.

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