GlobeNewswire Inc | Nov 14, 2020 06:05AM EST

November 14, 2020

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Nov. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls. It is the 21st time in the companys history that Check Point has been named a Leader for Enterprise Network Firewalls. We believe this years recognition highlights Check Points continued focus on integrating cloud and on premise security, enhancing performance and integration across its solution range, and its centralized, unified security management.

Being recognized 21 times as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls is a huge accomplishment and a real testament to our market vision, said Itai Greenberg, VP of Product Management at Check Point. We think this years recognition was driven by our obsessive focus on extending and consolidating our Infinity Architecture to secure every part of the enterprise network fabric, from cloud deployments and data centers to employees endpoints, mobiles and IoT devices. With our industry-leading threat prevention and holistic, centralized security management, enterprises can protect themselves from new and emerging attacks at every point on their networks, while meeting their evolving IT needs in the post-pandemic era.

Check Points Infinity Architecture is the industrys first consolidated security architecture spanning networks, cloud, mobile and IoT, providing the highest level of threat prevention against both known and unknown cyber threats. Its comprehensive enterprise product line ensures customers are protected against any threat, anytime and anywhere. The Infinity architecture offers:

-- The most advanced threat prevention technology: Check Points award-winning SandBlast Zero Day Protection is a core component of Infinity, with over 60 security services focused on threat prevention. It features a 100% block score for email and web malware prevention, exploit resistance and post-infection catch rate, as seen in theNSS Labs recent Breach Prevention Systems (BPS) Group Test. -- Largest offering of security solutions: Check Point offers firewalls for all use cases, including cloud-native and container deployments, firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) and secure access service edge (SASE), giving advanced threat prevention for all assets and workloads in public, private, hybrid or multi-cloud environments. The Infinity Architecture also extends to endpoints, mobiles and IoT devices, giving unified, automated security everywhere. -- Top tier security management: Check Points R80 centralized management suite gives holistic control of security policies and products across all of an organizations networks and cloud environments, increasing operational efficiency and lowering the complexity of managing security.

Read more about todays announcement, and receive a complimentary copy of the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls.

*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils, Jeremy DHoinne, 9 November 2020.

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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leading provider of cyber security solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally. Its solutions protect customers from 5thgeneration cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other types of attacks. Check Point offers multilevel security architecture, Infinity Total Protectionwith Gen V advanced threat prevention,which defends enterprises cloud, network andmobile device held information. Check Point provides the most comprehensive and intuitive one point of control security management system. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.

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