Check Point Delivers Groundbreaking Price/Performance with New VPN-1/FireWall-1 XL Performance Pack

Check Point Experience - ANAHEIM, Calif., - April 24, 2002 - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced a new Performance Pack module that significantly accelerates virtual private network (VPN) and firewall communications and shatters enterprise price/ performance barriers. Based on Check Point's VPN-1®/FireWall-1® XL™ acceleration technology, the Next Generation Performance Pack enables firewall speeds of more than 3 Gbps and VPN speeds of nearly 1 Gbps on a $4,000 industry-standard server. Check Point is demonstrating the new Performance Pack, along with other performance technologies in the Wire-Speed Performance Lab at Check Point Experience, its annual customer and partner conference currently being held in Anaheim, Calif.

In addition to the throughput numbers above, Next Generation Performance Pack delivers:

• 40,000 simultaneous VPN tunnels for large remote access VPN deployments
• 1.5 million connections for high web traffic data center or hosting environments
• 420,000 packets per second (pps) to enable fast small packet data, such as voice communications

"Enterprises require performance that will scale to meet the demands of growing next generation Secure Networks, yet today's economy requires a close eye on cost-efficiency," said Carol Stone, Check Point's vice president of marketing. "With Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 XL Performance Pack, customers can leverage the costs benefits of open systems and easily achieve scalable, wire-speed performance for a fraction of the price of competing solutions."

Check Point's Next Generation Performance Pack is a software-based acceleration module that maximizes network processing efficiency to offer the highest level of security performance. It leverages Check Point's new multi-threaded software design to improve VPN and firewall performance by distributing processing amongst multiple processors to significantly accelerate single gateway VPN and firewall performance. Additionally, customers can take advantage of load sharing technologies to further scale gateway performance.

Next Generation Performance Pack is the latest example of how Check Point is delivering industry-leading performance and price/performance. In addition to Check Point's SecureXL and ClusterXL performance technologies, its market-leading software is integrated into over 30 "Secured by Check Point" appliances that scale in price and performance exceeding 10 gigabits per second. A full listing can be viewed at: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/protect/platforms.html.

VPN-1/FireWall-1 XL Performance Pack expands Check Point's portfolio of wire-speed security solutions and further demonstrates the company's leadership in delivering unsurpassed performance on open platforms and a broad range of appliances.

Availability
Available immediately, customers can get a high-performance security system up and running in under 10 minutes when deploying Next Generation Performance Pack on Check Point's SecurePlatform - a hardened and secured operating system running VPN-1®/FireWall-1® on a standard PC or server. Additionally, Next Generation Performance Pack can also be deployed on Linux-based open systems and "Secured by Check Point" appliances. It will be available on Solaris open systems in June 2002

About Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. It is the confirmed market leader of both the worldwide VPN and firewall markets. The company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture provides the VPN and security infrastructure that uniquely enables secure and reliable Internet communications. SVN solutions, as delivered in the company's Next Generation product family, secure business communications and resources for corporate networks, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. Extending the power of SVN is Check Point's Open Platform for Security (OPSEC), the industry's framework and alliance for integration and interoperability with "best-of-breed" solutions from over 300 leading companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of 2,500 certified partners in 203 countries.

###

2002 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved.
Check Point, the Check Point logo, FireWall-1, FireWall-1 SecureServer, FireWall-1 SmallOffice, FloodGate-1, INSPECT, IQ Engine, Meta IP, MultiGate, Open Security Extension, OPSEC, Provider-1, SecureKnowledge, SecureUpdate, SiteManager-1, SVN, UAM, User-to-Address Mapping, UserAuthority, Visual Policy Editor, VPN-1, VPN-1 Accelerator Card, VPN-1 Gateway, VPN-1 SecureClient, VPN-1 SecuRemote, VPN-1 SecureServer, VPN-1 SmallOffice, and ConnectControl are trademarks, service marks, 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.