Check Point Software Technologies names Asheem Chandna Vice President of Marketing and Business Development

Redwood City, Calif., – September 9, 1998 - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKPF) today announced that Asheem Chandna has been named vice president of marketing and business development, expanding his role with the company. With more than a decade of experience in high-tech marketing and management, Chandna assumes overall responsibility for Check Point's recognized marketing and business development organizations, including product marketing, channels marketing, marketing communications, corporate communications, product management, OPSEC Alliance and OEM partnerships.

"We are fortunate to have a multi-talented individual such as Asheem already on our team," said Gil Shwed, president and CEO of Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. "In his role as the head of business development for the last two and a half years, Asheem has been instrumental in shaping and driving Check Point's vision and product strategy toward enterprise policy-based management. We look forward to having Asheem lead both marketing and business development to extend Check Point's industry leadership."

Prior to joining Check Point, Chandna served as vice president of marketing at CoroNet Systems, a venture-funded startup which built the industry's first monitoring system that provided an applications view across the network. When Compuware acquired CoroNet in 1995, Chandna served as director of product management with Compuware during a transition period. Previously, Chandna held senior marketing and product management roles with SynOptics/Bay Networks and consulting roles with AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Chandna also holds external roles on the board of directors and company advisory boards of several privately-held venture-funded companies. He received a M. S. in computer engineering and a B.S. in electrical engineering, both from Case Western Reserve University.

About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a leading provider of policy-based management solutions for IP networks. Through its Secure Enterprise Connectivity strategy, the company is dedicated to enabling secure, reliable, and manageable business communications. The company's products include the world's leading enterprise security suite, FireWall-1, the industry's leading VPN family of solutions, VPN-1™, and the industry's premier bandwidth management solution, FloodGate-1™. MetaInfo, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Check Point, is a leader in network and IP address management software that simplifies the set-up, integration and administration of complex networks. The company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For product information, please call (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit our web site at http://www.checkpoint.com.

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