Check Point

Check Point Software Technologies was founded in Ramat Gan, Israel, in 1993 by Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht and Shlomo Kramer. Its first product, FireWall-1, was one of the first commercial firewalls. The company has been listed on Nasdaq since 1996; Shwed chairs the board and Nadav Zafrir has been CEO since December 2024.

Its Infinity platform covers networks with the Quantum security gateways, the cloud with CloudGuard, and users, email and devices with Harmony, all managed from one console with AI-driven threat prevention. The Check Point Research team publishes widely followed reports on attacks and vulnerabilities.

According to its 2025 annual report, Check Point had 6,825 employees at the end of 2025, 2,944 of them in Israel, where its headquarters and main research and development centre are; it is building a new campus in Tel Aviv. Its sales and support offices span the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.