Check Point Refining Its Security Offerings to Meet Evolving Demands>
eWeek – Todd R. Weiss
LAS VEGASâWhen Check Point Software began its work in the IT security industry in 1993, smartphones, mobile tablets, IoT, and cloud applications and services didn’t yet exist. Back then, Check Point’s No. 1 job was providing state-of-the-art security to protect hardware, data centers and desktop machines that were humming away for a wide range of businesses. Check Point is continuing to add more of those needed capabilities to its products to meet those customer demands, he said. The company is investing to make that happen and has designated them as priorities, according to Greenberg. Check Point has about 100,000 customers around the world today and provides services for many companies in the Fortune 500, particularly in banking and finance, said Greenberg. The company’s products and services provide protection for a wide range of critical business systems within data centers and the cloud, including email, databases, Exchange web servers, mobile devices, mission-critical applications and much more. Check Point has also been busy making key strategic acquisitions to expand its offerings to customers, including last year’s acquisition of Dome9, which provides enhanced cloud infrastructure-as-a-service security enhancement for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. In January, Check Point also acquired ForceNock, which built a web application and API protection technology that Check Point is now working to include into its products, said Greenberg.
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