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New Check Point Integrity Solution Offers Industry's Best Endpoint Security, Manageability and Integration

Integrity 6.0 Delivers Unprecedented Scalability, Dramatically Lower Administrative Costs, and Easily Managed Intrusion Prevention for PCs

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., — Feb. 7, 2005 — Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today unveiled Integrity 6.0, to forge new ground in manageability, scalability and reliability for endpoint security. The best-in-class Integrity client and server software secures all networked PCs by centrally managing proactive defenses and enforcing access policy compliance. In addition, significant advances and new management features enable Integrity 6.0 to secure large scale deployments with the lowest total cost of ownership. It also includes the first easily managed host intrusion prevention for PCs.

"We designed Integrity to provide hardened endpoint security that is easy to manage, deploy and scale. Integrity 6.0 includes significant enhancements enabling superior security levels with the addition of IPS capabilities, while it reduces the lowest total cost of ownership with the introduction of high-availability and multi-site management features," said Gonen Fink, vice president of solutions and strategy for Check Point Software Technologies. "Integrity 6.0 introduces a manageable IPS solution that is easy to use and provides comprehensive endpoint security - all delivered with the peace of mind that only comes from deploying Check Point's trusted security solutions."

Edwards Lifesciences is a leader in treating advanced cardiovascular disease and has 5,000 employees and global operations. Check Point Integrity is the core foundation for Lifesciences' endpoint security on all desktops and laptops worldwide. Mark Schaefer, Information Security Manager for Edwards Lifesciences Corporation explains: "Our customers are requiring more direct access to our network and services, but at the same time we are concerned about protecting our computing resources from the increasing threats such as worms, spyware and more. Check Point Integrity integrates with our existing anti-virus solutions, can be centrally managed and enables us to enforce security requirements for both VPN connections and network based connections."

Day Zero Protection with New SmartDefense Program Advisor
Integrity 6.0 further improves upon Day Zero protection with the patent pending Program Advisorä, a new SmartDefense™ Service from Check Point. Program Advisor is an optional service that gives administrators the ability to automate most application policy decisions for granting or blocking network access to PC applications. The Service is based on a dynamic knowledgebase containing more than 85,000 applications. The real-time, on-demand policy decisions provided by Program Advisor will allow the "known and good" applications network access while blocking emerging Day Zero threats that are attempting to abuse the enterprise network. This hands-free service greatly reduces administrative resources for managing application controls and minimizes end-user involvement, resulting in fewer help desk calls.

Integrity 6.0 allows network administrators to easily develop, manage and enforce unparalleled security on every PC that accesses the network and includes these new features:

  • Host Intrusion Prevention - Integrity now incorporates Check Point's unique Malicious Code Protector™ technology to stop buffer overflow and other attacks that exploit flaws in PC applications and operating systems. Unlike host intrusion prevention approaches that involve very complex and time consuming rule creation, Integrity requires little administrative effort to defend enterprise PCs against dangerous application layer attacks.

  • New SmartDefense Program Advisor™ Service - This patent-pending service offers administrators the ability to automate most application policy decisions before granting or blocking network access to PC applications.

  • Increased SmartCenter Integration - Integrity log data is now automatically shared with Check Point's SmartCenter management solutions. Administrators can view endpoint security reports in the context of other Perimeter, Internal, and Web security data, increasing the efficiency and value of their forensic analyses.

  • New Integrity Advanced Server - The clustered server and load balancing architecture provides virtually unlimited scalability with the highest level of availability in the industry. This advanced server technology is an ideal solution for companies with large, diverse PC communities.

  • Automatic Client Deployment - Administrators can now opt to deploy the initial and latest versions of Integrity client software centrally without touching any endpoints. This dramatically reduces IT resources and time needed to conduct an initial deployment as well as to upgrade endpoint security.

Integrity 6.0, the most recent milestone in the Check Point's Total Access Protection (TAP) initiative, offers enterprises the most complete endpoint security solution, including firewall, intrusion prevention and out-bound threat protection. The ability of Integrity to enforce access policy compliance via integration with Check Point's VPN-1®, InterSpect™, and Connectra™ security gateways ensures end-to-end protection for all forms of network access. The complete Integrity product line delivers Total Access Protection for the enterprise, ensuring that all enterprise PCs-employee and guest, internal and remote, wired and wireless-can be protected by the market's leading security solution.

Availability and System Information
Check Point Integrity 6.0 can be ordered immediately from Check Point's network of more than 2,200 solutions providers. Check Point Integrity Advanced Server now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0 and DB2 in addition to existing support for Windows® 2000 Server and Advanced Server, Windows Server 2003, Oracle and SQL Server. Integrity clients add support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 in addition to existing support for Windows 98SE, 2000 Pro SP4, NT 4.0 Workstation SP6a and XP Pro SP2 machines.

About Check Point Software
Check Point Software Technologies (www.checkpoint.com) is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. It is the market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, personal firewall and VPN markets. Through its Next Generation product line, the company delivers a broad range of intelligent Perimeter, Internal and Web security solutions that protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company's ZoneAlarm product line is one of the most trusted brands in Internet security, creating award-winning endpoint security solutions that protect millions of PCs from hackers, spyware and data theft. 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 more than 2,200 Check Point partners in 88 countries.

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