Check Point Doubles VPN Remote User Installed Base in Under Five Months, Setting New Industry Record.Business Editors/High Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 Over 20 Million Internet Users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f Licensed for Check Point VPN-1 Client Software Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that it has doubled the number of licensed remote access users for its VPN-1 client software solutions in a little over four months. Over 10 million copies have been licensed in less than the last five months. Thru the start of 1999, a cumulative total of over 20 million copies of its VPN-1 SecuRemote and VPN-1 Secure Client have been licensed by customers, extending Check Point's accelerating market leadership in virtual private networks (VPNs). "Today's milestone of reaching 20 million licenses for our VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. client solutions pulls Check Point Software even further ahead, as the breakaway market leader in VPNs," said Asheem Chandna, vice president of marketing and business development for Check Point Software Technologies. "Our VPN client solutions have exploded in growth and deployment to become the key infrastructure enablers for secure business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) communications over the Internet." VPN-1 SecuRemote and VPN-1 Secure Client enable mobile workers, telecommuters and extended workforces to seamlessly and securely connect to their corporate networks over the Internet. The Check Point VPN-1 client software solutions are integral components of Check Point's Secure Virtual Network (SVN SVN Subversion (version control system) SVN Slovenia (international traffic code) SVN Social Venture Network SVN South Vietnam SVN Secure Virtual Network SVN Supervised Visitation Network ) architecture, which provides comprehensive security between networks, systems, applications and users across the Internet, Intranets and extranets. About Check Point Software Technologies Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. The company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture provides the infrastructure that enables secure and reliable Internet communications. SVN secures business-to-business (B2B) communications between networks, systems, applications and users across the Internet, Intranets and extranets. Check Point's Open Platform for Security (OPSEC (OPerations SECurity) The U.S. military term for concealing critical information as part of a counterintelligence plan. A form of "security by obscurity," OPSEC determines what information adversaries can obtain or piece together from observation and to provide measures for ) provides the framework for integration and interoperability with "best-of-breed" solutions from over 200 leading industry partners. For more information, please call us at (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit us on the Web at http://www.checkpoint (programming) checkpoint - Saving the current state of a program and its data, including intermediate results, to disk or other non-volatile storage, so that if interrupted the program could be restarted at the point at which the last checkpoint occurred. .com or at http://www.opsec.com. (c) 1999 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. Check Point, the Check Point logo, FireWall-1, FloodGate-1, INSPECT, IQ Engine, Meta IP, Open Security Extension, OPSEC, Provider-1, User-to-Address Mapping, VPN-1, VPN-1 Accelerator Card, VPN-1 Appliance, VPN-1 Certificate Manager, VPN-1 Gateway, VPN-1 SecuRemote, VPN-1 SecureServer, Secure Virtual Network and ConnectControl are trademarks or registered trademarks of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. or its affiliates. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The products described in this document are protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,606,668 and 5,835,726 and may be protected by other U.S. P. Patents, foreign patents, or pending applications. |
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