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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an international provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, data security and security management. the company had approximately 2,900 employees worldwide. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company has development centers in Israel, California (ZoneAlarm), Sweden (Former Protect Data development centre), and Belarus. The company has offices in the United States, in San Carlos, California, in Dallas, Texas, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Sydney Australia. Check Point competes in the antivirus industry against AVG, Avira, ESET, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Panda Security, Sophos and Symantec among others. ==History== Check Point was established in Ramat-Gan, Israel in 1993, by Gil Shwed (Chairman and CEO ), Marius Nacht (Vice Chairman ) and Shlomo Kramer (who left Check Point in 2003). 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. Shwed developed the idea while serving in the Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces, where he worked on securing classified networks.〔Savage, Marcia. (Gil Shwed, Chairman & CEO, Check Point Software Tech ). CRN, Nov. 07, 2001.〕〔, Oct 1, 2002〕 Initial funding of US$400,000 was provided by venture capital fund BRM Group. In 1994 Check Point signed an OEM agreement with Sun Microsystems,〔 followed by a distribution agreement with HP in 1995. The same year, the U.S. head office was established in Redwood City, California. By February 1996 the company was named worldwide firewall market leader by IDC, with a market share of 40 percent. In June 1996 Check Point raised $67 million from its initial public offering on NASDAQ. In 1998 Check Point established a partnership with Nokia, which bundled Check Point's Software with Nokia's computer Network Security Appliances. In 2003, a class action lawsuit was filed against Check Point over violation of the Securities Exchange Act by failing to disclose major financial information.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Notice of Filing of Class Action Lawsuit Against Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Gil Shwed, Jerry Ungerman, Eyal Desheh, Irwin Federman and Alex Vieux -- CHKP )〕 During the first decade of the 21st century Check Point started acquiring other IT security companies, including Nokia's network security business unit in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Check Point Completes Acquisition of Nokia Security Appliance Business )〕 Over the years many employees who worked at Check Point have left to start their own software companies. These include Shlomo Kremer who started Imperva, Nir Zuk who founded Palo Alto Networks, Ruvi Kitov and Reuven Harrison of Tufin and Yonadav Leitersdorf. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Check Point」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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