In June 1996 Check Point raised $67 million from its initial public offering on NASDAQ. head office was established in Redwood City, California.īy February 1996, the company was named worldwide firewall market leader by IDC, with a market share of 40 percent. In 1994 Check Point signed an OEM agreement with Sun Microsystems, followed by a distribution agreement with HP in 1995.

Initial funding of US$250,000 was provided by venture capital fund BRM Group. Shwed developed the idea while serving in the Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces, where he worked on securing classified networks. Shwed had the initial idea for the company's core technology known as stateful inspection, which became the foundation for the company's first product, FireWall-1 soon afterwards they also developed one of the world's first VPN products, VPN-1. The company has offices in over 70 locations worldwide including main offices in North America, 10 in the United States (including in San Carlos, California and Dallas, Texas), 4 in Canada (including Ottawa, Ontario) as well as in Europe ( London, Paris, Munich, Madrid) and in Asia Pacific ( Singapore, Japan, Bengaluru, Sydney).Ĭheck Point was established in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1993, by Gil Shwed ( CEO as of 2016 ), Marius Nacht (Chairman as of 2016 ) and Shlomo Kramer (who left Check Point in 2003). Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel and San Carlos, California, the company has development centers in Israel and Belarus and previously held in the United States ( ZoneAlarm), Sweden (former Protect Data development centre) following acquisitions of companies who owned these centers. Check Point is an American-Israeli multinational provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, cloud security, mobile security, data security and security management.Īs of 2021, the company has approximately 6,000 employees worldwide.

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