Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) is the global leader in securing the Internet through its worldwide enterprise of firewall, personal firewall, data security and VPN markets. 

Highlights:

·         Check Point’s worldwide distribution includes 2,200 channel partners, over 85 telcos/ISPs and more than 350 OPSEC Partners in 88 countries.

·         100% of Fortune 100 companies use Check Point security solutions.

·         In 2003, the company's primary product was FireWall-1/VPN-1, which maintained a dominant market share in the firewall industry.

·         Awards include:

2005-Winner, Excellent Security Award - Safe@Office 410 - ProtectStar

2005-MIS Best Choice Award for Best Firewall - Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 Next Generation with Application Intelligence –

2004-Check Point placed #1 for both Worldwide VPN/Firewall software revenue market share: 88% (Infonetics, November 2004) and 

2004-Placed first for Worldwide IPSec VPN/Firewall Market Share: 36% (Frost & Sullivan, April 2004).

Acquisitions:

·         2007-Checkpoint acquired Protect Data AB (PROT.ST)^] & Pointsec Mobile Technologies AB of Sweden.

·         2007-Checkpoint acquired NFR Security, a threat prevention and intrusion prevention (IPS) company and created the "Network Flight Recorder" touted as a tamper-proof architecture and toolkit for building network traffic analysis and statistical event records.

Returns:

·         Revenues for 2007 were $730.9 million, an increase of 27 percent compared to $575.1 million for 2006.  Network security accounted for a record $648.1 million in revenues representing a 13% increase over 2006.  Data security contributed $82.8 million in revenues for the year.

·         2007 Net Income: Non-GAAP: $358.7 million, an increase of 12 percent compared to $320.3 million for 2006. Non-GAAP net income excludes equity-based compensation expenses and acquisition-related charges.