Cybersecurity firm founded in 1993, creator of the first stateful inspection firewall, offering a unified AI-powered, cloud-delivered security platform protecting over 100,000 organizations in 60+ countries.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. was founded in 1993 and has spent more than three decades at the frontier of network security. Its founding contribution, FireWall-1, was the IT industry's first stateful inspection firewall technology - the invention that set the standard for modern network protection and established the company as a pioneer in the field.
Today Check Point operates a unified cybersecurity platform delivering AI-powered, cloud-delivered security solutions. The work spans network security, stateful inspection, AI-driven detection, cloud-delivered security, dedicated threat intelligence research, and advanced security services. The organisation protects more than 100,000 enterprises, governments and other organisations worldwide and operates in over 60 countries, with headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The engineering scope is correspondingly broad: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, education and government all sit within the customer base, from governments to enterprises of every size. The company describes its mission as securing the digital world, a purpose rooted in its founding vision of the critical need for enterprise network security. CEO Nadav Zafrir joined in December 2024.
