State of Minnesota Selects Check Point's Data Security Solutions to Protect Sensitive Data

Pointsec full disk & media encryption to protect state and local government institutions from data theft

Redwood City, CA —

Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that the state of Minnesota's Office of Enterprise Technology (OET) has selected the Pointsec PC full-disk encryption solution to secure laptops and PCs and Pointsec Protector to secure removable media devices, ensuring that all data completely protected, even if a device is lost or stolen. The contract with the State of Minnesota makes Pointsec PC available to state and local government, public schools and higher education institutions under a single contract.

"Protecting sensitive data across thousands of network endpoints for the state of Minnesota attests to the flexibility and strength of our full-disk encryption solutions," said Marty Leamy, vice president of field operations for Check Point Software Technologies. "We are extremely pleased that Minnesota has selected Check Point as one of its encryption vendors for both government agencies and educational facilities."

Founded in July 2005, Minnesota's OET provides oversight, leadership, and direction for information and telecommunications technology policy and the management, delivery, and security of information and telecommunications technology systems and services in state government. It also manages strategic investments in information and telecommunications technology systems and services to ensure sufficient access to and efficient delivery of government services.

"The endless rash of data breaches affecting major corporations and government agencies over the past two years has served as a major catalyst for conducting a full-scale evaluation of the market-leading full-disk encryption solutions available today," said Chris Buse, chief information security officer for the State. "Because our facilities are in disparate locations state-wide, we knew we needed an encryption solution that could be easily deployed and managed across a distributed computing environment. Our goal was to negotiate a contract that met the requirements established by a cross-agency review team and under which many government entities can purchase the tools they need."

With its proven line of Pointsec solutions, Check Point provides automatic real-time encryption of the entire hard drive that can be configured to meet any organization's needs. Pointsec's exclusive and efficient "on-the-fly" encryption method ensures that encryption is performed according to an organization's security policies, remains transparent to the end user and results in virtually no performance difference for the device. The most widely and fastest deployed data protection solution, Pointsec offers more and higher industry certifications than any competing solution and innovative centralized management offers the lowest total cost of ownership. Check Point offers support for Windows-based laptops and desktops, Linux-based systems, removable storage media such as USB sticks and CDs, and popular wireless handhelds on the Microsoft, Symbian and Palm operating systems.

About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leader in securing the Internet. The company is a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, personal firewall, data security and VPN markets. Check Point's PURE focus is on IT security with its extensive portfolio of network security, data security and security management solutions. Through its NGX platform, Check Point delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of security solutions to protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company also offers market leading data security solutions through the Pointsec product line, protecting and encrypting sensitive corporate information stored on PCs and other mobile computing devices. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and additional consumer security solutions protect millions of consumer 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 hundreds of leading companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of Check Point partners around the world and its customers include 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes.

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