Check Point's Kevin Maloney Named To 'Top 100 Channel Executives' By CMP's VARBusiness Magazine

Redwood City, CA —

Kevin Maloney, vice president of worldwide sales for Check Point Software Technologies, the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, has been recognized by the editors of CMP Media's VARBusiness as one of North America's "Top 100 Channel Executives" – a pedigree of those whose imagination and innovation are driving the information technology (IT) distribution channel. Maloney was honored in the special April 3 issue of the biweekly magazine that provides strategic insight to technology integrators.

"We celebrate the men and women who enable solution providers with programs, products and inspiration," says VARBusiness Editor Lawrence M. Walsh. "These executives are worthy of emulation by all of their peers."

"We place the utmost value on our partner program, and believe that our delivery of world class training and support coupled with evaluation and action of partner feedback results in real business value for our customers," said Kevin Maloney, vice president of worldwide sales. "It's an honor to receive this award and I look forward to the growth that we no doubt expect to achieve with our partner program worldwide."

The "Top 100 Channel Executives" list is based on a survey of channel executives with respect to years of service, size of their channel programs and their partner priorities for the coming year. In addition to being published in the April 3 issue of VARBusiness magazine, the feature package and executive listing is posted to the Web at www.varbusiness.com.

About VARBusiness Magazine
For the past 19 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the Solution Provider community. VARBusiness provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, events and services, is available at its Web site, at www.varbusiness.com.

About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leader in securing the Internet. It is a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, personal firewall and VPN markets. Through its NGX platform, the company delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint 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 the highest rated personal computer security suite, comprised of 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 and its customers include 100% of Fortune 100 companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes.

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