Check Point CEO Gil Shwed Acknowledged as a Top Innovator by CRN Magazine

Application Intelligence Lauded as One of This Year's Hottest Technologies

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., September 17, 2003 - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gil Shwed has been named one of the Top 25 Innovators in a special report by CRN Magazine. The Top 25 Innovators gives recognition to the technical gurus behind this year's most emerging technologies.

A long-standing pioneer of the Internet security industry, Mr. Shwed is recognized for this year's revolutionary Application Intelligence™ technology, which is a set of advanced capabilities, integrated into Check Point FireWall-1® and SmartDefense™ to protect organizations from known and unknown network and application attacks by using intelligent security technology to immediately detect, prevent and respond to attack attempts.

In 1993, Shwed invented and patented Stateful Inspection technology, now the Internet security industry de facto standard and the most imitated technology. He is also credited with delivering the industry's first commercial shrink-wrapped firewall, FireWall-1, which is now deployed by nine of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies. Under his leadership, Check Point went on to launch its Next Generation platform and has now elevated that technology to defeat both network and application-level attacks with this latest version, Next Generation with Application Intelligence.

Describing Check Point's invaluable contribution to the Internet security industry, highly-regarded Check Point distributor CG Atlantic, President and CEO Robert Cohen adds, "By setting the bar early on with very high standards and not dropping that bar as so many vendors do as they gain success, Check Point was and still is the measuring stick for all the others."

The complete article can be found at http://www.crn.com/sections/special/innovator/innovator.asp?ArticleID=44455

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. Through its Next Generation product line, the company delivers a broad range of Perimeter, Internal and Web security solutions that protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. Extending the power of the Check Point solution is its Open Platform for Security (OPSEC), the industry's framework and alliance for integration and interoperability with "best-of-breed" solutions from over 350 leading companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of 1,900 Check Point partners in 86 countries. 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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