Check Point Unveils SmartCenter Management Solutions.

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Check Point Experience

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2002

New Solutions Deliver the Industry's Richest Set of Integrated

Management Capabilities and Lowest Total Cost of Ownership

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today introduced its new SmartCenter management infrastructure and unveiled two solutions that deliver the most comprehensive set of management capabilities available today. The new SmartCenter management solutions also deliver the lowest total cost of ownership by giving security administrators a new level of ease of use and integration. These solutions are being unveiled at the Check Point Experience, the company's annual customer and partner conference currently being held in Dublin, Ireland.

Check Point's SmartCenter management solutions offer tiered levels of functionality for an integrated, easy-to-purchase, cost-effective solution to enable greater control and the highest levels of security in a single management console. The new solutions include:

-- SmartCenter builds on Check Point's industry-leading SMART management
architecture featuring Check Point's security dashboard that provides a
comprehensive, easy-to-use, centralized policy management, integrating the
management of security, VPNs and QoS.

-- SmartCenter Pro provides the latest and most comprehensive management
solutions available today, taking security management to new heights. Dynamic
control of the entire security environment is enabled through visual management
of network security, centralized and automated software updates, integration
with enterprise directories (e.g. LDAP, Active Directory) and fault tolerance
with full management high availability.

The SmartCenter and SmartCenter Pro solutions are available immediately and at the industry's most attractive price points. Also, the new SmartCenter Pro will be included with Check Point's comprehensive Secure Virtual Network (SVN) security bundles at no additional cost.

"Today's administrators face increasingly complex VPN and security environments that rely on multiple management products and components," said Jerry Ungerman, president of Check Point Software Technologies. "The new Check Point SmartCenter management solutions provide customers with an easy-to-purchase, integrated, and cost-effective set of management tools available, resulting in increased control, greater security and unparalleled ease of use."

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 2,500 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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