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High-Availability.Com Achieves OPSEC Certification from Check Point Software

High-Availability.Com's RSF-1 Integrates with Industry's Most Recognized Security Framework

Altrincham, UK - May 27, 2002 - High-Availability.Com (HAC), a leading provider of easy and affordable high availability (HA) clustering solutions for Unix environments, today announced that it has achieved OPSEC® (Open Platform for Security) certification for RSF-1, from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. Through OPSEC certification, High-Availability.Com's RSF-1 seamlessly integrates with Check Point's Next Generation VPN-1®/FireWall-1® software.

RSF-1™ integrates seamlessly into the OPSEC framework to provide a complete high availability clustering solution for Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 gateways, comprehensively guarding against hardware, software, network and adapter failure to enhance security and availability throughout the Enterprise.

OPSEC Certification provides a real "seal of approval", confirming that RSF-1 meets the availability, reliability and performance standards necessary for quality deployment of highly available security applications.

"Receiving OPSEC certification underscores our commitment to provide the highest quality solutions and services to our customers," said Grenville Whelan, High-Availability.Com's Chairman. "We have invested heavily in the scalability, security and stability of our application and are proud to be a member of the prestigious OPSEC Certified community yet again."

"We are pleased to see High-Availability.Com's RSF-1 solution achieve OPSEC Certification," said Upesh Patel, manager of the OPSEC Alliance for Check Point Software Technologies. "The combination of Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 and High-Availability's RSF-1 solution provides customers with the security, performance and availability needed for business-critical security gateway."

RSF-1, first released in 1995, and an OPSEC certified product since March 1998, is a mature high availability and cluster middleware application that ensures critical applications and services keep running in the event of system failures. It sits between the storage volume management and application layers of typically: web servers, application servers, firewall servers and database servers, providing support for most leading applications in those areas.

Check Point's OPSEC®
Check Point's OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 300 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program information, including partner and product listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com.

ABOUT High-Availability.Com
High-Availability.Com designed and developed the first High Availability solution for Sun Unix servers in 1995 and have been leading the mission-critical market ever since with innovative products to maximize availability of our customers' business IT and internet-facing functions. The company's solutions span the range of requirements by today's market to ensure 24x7 uptime of mission-critical environments. The Company is focused on developing solutions that enable applications to be more highly available and more highly accessible than ever before.

In addition to software licensing, HAC offers a comprehensive set of pre and post sales Professional Services and manages a 24x7 support organization to ensure our customer's critical environments keep running.

HAC sells and supports products to customers all over the world through our reseller partnership program that has local representation in every continent.

The company's corporate headquarters is located at 6-8 Lloyd Street, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DE, UK. Tel: +44-(0)7092-300000, fax: +44-(0)7092-300000, email: info@high-availability.com Web site: www.high-availability.com.

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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 2,000 certified partners in 203 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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