Leading Companies Honored in Check Point Excellence Awards; Second annual awards program recognizes innovative customer and partner enterprise security implementations

Business Wire, Sept 20, 1999

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 20, 1999--

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKPF), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the winners of its second annual Check Point Excellence Awards at Networld Interop held in Atlanta. The program awarded selected customers for some of the most innovative and successful implementations of Check Point Internet security. With over 32,000 customers and 80,000 installations worldwide, this year's Check Point Excellence Award winners represent, industry-leading companies in the banking, consulting, financial services, hospitality, retail, service provider and technology markets.

The recipients of the 1999 Check Point Excellence Award winners include:

-- Office Depot for Outstanding E-Commerce Security Implementation

   Office Depot, the world's largest seller of office products,
   launched its operations onto the Internet two years ago to
   capture revenue outside of its traditional commerce framework. It
   is now a major E-commerce site with 3 million hits a day. Office
   Depot uses VPN-1/FireWall-1 as the basis of its secure e-commerce
   site. Office Depot's use of VPN-1/FireWall-1 is critical to its
   E-Commerce by safeguarding transactions and protecting all of the
   back-end resources.

-- Perot Systems for Cutting Edge Security Practices

   Perot Systems, a leader in technology consulting and services,
   has over 6,000 employees traveling around the world, managing
   various systems integration and systems management projects.
   These mobile employees are equipped with Check Point's VPN-1
   SecuRemote client VPN software. With the nomadic nature of its
   work force, employees need secure access to the corporate network
   from any location worldwide. Perot makes extensive use of
   VPN-1/FireWall-1 from Check Point to provide these secure
   communication paths over the Internet to and from its large group
   of mobile employees.

-- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts for Strategic and Visionary Use
   of VPNs

   Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is the world's leading operator
   of luxury hotels, currently managing 43 properties in 18
   countries. The company began an initiative to improve the
   personalization for repeat hotel guests through the sharing of
   guest histories and preferences between hotels using Check
   Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1. The hotels plan to extend their VPN
   capabilities for guests to use from an individual hotel room or
   for larger meetings to securely connect to other facilities.

-- GTE Internetworking for Managed Security Services

   GTE Internetworking, a unit of GTE Corporation, provides its
   customers, ranging from consumers to Fortune 500 companies, a
   full spectrum of integrated Internet services using IP networking
   technologies. In order to provide the very best security services
   to its customers, GTE Internetworking uses Check Point's
   VPN-1/FireWall-1 along with Provider-1, to meet Internet security
   demands -- from very large, multi-location sites to smaller
   companies.

-- Banker's Life and Casualty Company for Outstanding Meta IP
   Implementation

   With more than 12 million customers, Banker's Life is using Check
   Point Meta IP to help manage the network's Dynamic Host
   Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name Service (DNS)
   services of nearly 5,000 IP addresses in a heterogeneous
   environment including Solaris, Linux, NT, OS/2, Macintosh and
   Novell platforms. With Meta IP, Banker's Life has greatly
   increased its flexibility and centralized management of
   distributed services (DHCP and Dynamic DNS).

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-- Wyle Systems

   Wyle Systems has played a critical role in the Four Season's
   implementation of VPN-1. Founded in 1949, Wyle Systems is a
   global distributor offering custom global solutions for any
   computing environment. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Wyle Systems
   has a network of 35 sales offices with extensive product
   offerings including computer systems and servers, networking,
   peripherals, and an array of mass storage products, from disk
   drives to RAID systems.

About Check Point Software Technologies

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. The company's integrated architecture includes network security (VPN-1/FireWall-1, Provider-1 and Check Point RealSecure), traffic control (FloodGate-1 and ConnectControl), and IP address management (Meta IP). Check Point Software solutions enable customers to implement centralized policy-based management with enterprise-wide distributed deployment. Via the OPSEC Alliance, Check Point Software's products seamlessly integrate with "best-of-breed" products from more than 200 leading industry partners. The company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For more information, please call (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit http://www.checkpoint.com or http://www.opsec.com.