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iCognito's PureSight Achieves OPSEC Certification from Check Point Software

Revolutionary Internet Content filtering solution for Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 Next Generation

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 15, 2002 - iCognito Technologies Ltd. announced today that PureSight, the Revolutionary Internet filtering solution, has achieved OPSEC® (Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point™ Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. OPSEC certification ensures and verifies that PureSight tightly integrates and interoperates with Check Point's market-leading VPN-1®/FireWall-1® Next Generation solutions, an integral part of the Secure Virtual Network (SVN®) architecture. Check Point's SVN architecture provides the infrastructure that enables secure and reliable Internet communications between networks, systems, applications, and users across the Internet, Intranets and extranets.

"We are very pleased to award iCognito OPSEC certification for the PureSight solution," said Upesh Patel, manager of the OPSEC Alliance for Check Point Software. "The combination of Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 Next Generation and iCognito's PureSight gives customers a best-of-breed, intelligent content filtering solution."

PureSight for FireWall-1 is an intelligent next generation solution that manages, monitors, filters and reports on Internet use, using Content Recognition technology, enabling it to understand Internet content and categorize it. Without relying upon a limited database of URLs, PureSight is the most effective and accurate filtering solution, providing 100% coverage of the constantly changing Internet. PureSight provides multilingual and complete Web filtering coverage resulting in increased productivity, reduced liability, and improved network performance.

"Achieving OPSEC certification guarantees PureSight's seamless interoperability with Check Point's SVN architecture ," said Guy Rubinstein, CEO of iCognito. "PureSight's use of advanced technology, rather than static URL databases, will provide Check Point FireWall-1 customers with the most accurate and cost-effective solution available. PureSight is the only OPSEC certified filtering application to provide next generation filtering technology for the Check Point Next Generation network security platform."

The OPSEC certified PureSight for Check Point FireWall-1 is already available for download from www.icognito.com. Corporations and organizations can now experience PureSight's revolutionary filtering in their existing VPN-1/FireWall-1 environments.

About Check Point'sT OPSEC®
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 iCognito
iCognito Technologies Ltd. is a leading software vendor, providing Internet Content Filtering solutions. iCognito developed the AI-based Artificial Content Recognition (ACR) technology for use in content recognition applications. The PureSight family of Internet filtering products gives employers, educators and parents improved control and management over their employees, students or children's Internet usage resulting in improved productivity, reduced liability, and better managed network resources. iCognito is headquartered in Israel, with a growing network of affiliates worldwide. For more information, visit www.icognito.com.

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