Chennai, India – September 15, 2010 – Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the new Security Gateway Virtual Edition™ (VE) with VMsafe integration that secures the cloud with the industry’s most advanced firewall and protects dynamic virtual environments from both internal and external security threats. The new Security Gateway VE is based on Check Point’s Software Blade Architecture, enabling businesses to leverage the same flexible and comprehensive security solutions available on physical networks – including Firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention – to meet the special security, networking and management needs of virtual environments.

The new Security Gateway VE is designed to ensure organizations can secure inter-VM traffic and external networks with granular firewall policies and integrated intrusion prevention capabilities to protect against malicious and unwanted network activity.  In addition, /organizations can automatically apply security policies to all existing or future virtual machines, without changing the existing network topology or experiencing downtime during live migration. With Security Gateway VE, customers are able to meet both the traditional network traffic requirements and the dynamic requirements needed to protect data at the hypervisor level, ensuring they have the most comprehensive security for virtual environments.

“Securing dynamic virtual environments is extremely challenging as it involves protection from external threats and inspection of internal traffic between virtual machines”, said Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu, Regional Director – India & SAARC, Check Point Software Technologies. “The new Check Point Security Gateway VE provides plug and play security for virtual machines, the high level of transparency allows administrators to monitor and protect virtual machines against malwares and malicious network activity. It also simplifies security management with unified administration of physical and virtualized environments.”

With VMware VMsafe™ integration, Check Point’s Security Gateway VE can be deployed easily and consistently across the infrastructure to achieve greater visibility, manageability, and enforcement of standard security policies. Now organizations have access to holistic data and greater system protection against new and existing threats in the virtual environment.

“Security remains a top priority for any company looking at deploying virtualization. By partnering with Check Point, customers benefit from a breadth of security solutions for VMware environments,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances at VMware. “Combining more than a decade of expertise in virtualization and security, VMware and Check Point continue to provide customers the tools they need to secure their virtual environments as they continue toward the goal of delivering IT as a service.”

Customers can easily deploy the Security Gateway VE into their existing security infrastructure and virtual environment, dramatically reducing deployment time and costs. Organizations can centrally manage both the physical and virtual gateways from a single console to simplify management. In addition, businesses can provide a clear separation between virtualization and security administrators, while leveraging the same global policies across the organization’s different environments. For more information about the Security Gateway VE, visit: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/security-gateway-virtual-edition/index.html.

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Check Point’s Security Gateway VE will be available in September 2010 and can be purchased through the Check Point worldwide network of value-added resellers. To find a Check Point partner, visit: http://partners.us.checkpoint.com/partnerlocator/.