Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. lineage
Built the firewall it is famous for, then bought its way into every market that opened after it - endpoint, cloud, email, access, and AI security.
What Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is made of, and who made it. Every acquisition below is verified against primary sources, with the product line it turned into where that connection is documented rather than inferred.
Founded 1993 in Ramat Gan, Israel as Check Point Software Technologies by Gil Shwed, with Marius Nacht and Shlomo Kramer.
FireWall-1, shipped in 1994 on Gil Shwed's stateful inspection patent: a firewall that remembers connection state rather than judging each packet alone. VPN-1 followed as one of the first commercial VPN products. By February 1996 IDC put Check Point at roughly 40% of the worldwide firewall market, and the NASDAQ listing followed the same year.
The name has never changed. Unusually for this industry, the company that shipped the first product still trades under the same name thirty years later.
Acquisitions
12 · 8 disclosed, as of July 2026- Zone Labs$205M ($113M cash + $92M in shares)
The maker of ZoneAlarm, the personal firewall. It gave Check Point an endpoint product and, for the first time, a consumer business and consumer brand recognition.
Became: The start of the endpoint line that eventually became Harmony Endpoint. Zone Labs was run as a separate division and kept its brand for years.
Announced December 2003, expected to close Q1 2004.
- Protect Data / Pointsec$550M (reported; also reported as $586M for the Protect Data parent)
Swedish full-disk-encryption business. Pointsec was the product; Protect Data AB was the listed parent Check Point actually bought.
Became: Full disk and media encryption in the endpoint suite. For years this was the largest acquisition in Check Point's history.
Sources differ on both the figure and the year - $550M in 2007 and $586M in 2006 both appear, the latter dating the announcement of the Protect Data offer rather than its completion. Both describe the same transaction.
- Nokia's security appliance businessundisclosed in the sources checked
The appliance line that had carried FireWall-1 into data centres for a decade. Before this, Check Point sold software and Nokia sold the box it ran on.
Became: Check Point's own appliance hardware. This is the deal that made it a full platform vendor rather than a software company dependent on someone else's metal.
- Dome9 Security~$175M (also reported as $179M)
Cloud security posture management - visibility and compliance across public cloud accounts.
Became: CloudGuard. This opened the acquisition run that built out the whole non-network portfolio.
October 2018. Reported figures differ slightly between sources.
- Odo Security$30M
Clientless zero-trust network access - remote access to internal applications without a VPN client.
Became: The ZTNA capability inside Harmony Connect.
September 2020.
- Avanan$280M (also reported at around $300M)
API-based cloud email security, scanning Microsoft 365 and similar platforms after delivery rather than as a gateway in front of them.
Became: Harmony Email and Collaboration. The API-rather-than-gateway approach is the architectural point: it inspects mail the platform has already filtered, and can remove a message that has already landed.
August/September 2021. Reported figures differ between sources.
- Spectral Cyber Technologies$60M
Developer-first scanning for secrets and misconfiguration in source code and build pipelines.
Became: The shift-left half of the CloudGuard story - catching a leaked credential before it ships rather than after.
February 2022.
- Perimeter 81~$490M, cash-free and debt-free
A security service edge company with over 200 staff and more than 3,000 customers, offering zero-trust access and full-mesh connectivity.
- 2019 SaferVPN (by Perimeter 81) — Perimeter 81 had itself acquired a consumer VPN business, which gave it the network footprint its zero-trust access product was built on.
Became: Harmony SASE, and Check Point's answer in the SASE market. At the time this was the second-largest acquisition in company history.
Announced August 2023, completed in the third quarter. Perimeter 81 had been valued at roughly $1B a year earlier, so the price represented a substantial discount.
- Atmosecundisclosed
An early-stage SaaS security business, securing the connections between SaaS applications.
Became: Part of the SaaS security strand of Infinity.
September 2023. Terms not disclosed.
- Cyberint Technologies~$200M (reported; terms not disclosed)
External risk management: threat intelligence and attack surface management from outside the perimeter.
Became: The external risk management layer of Infinity, feeding the SOC offering - the view of what an attacker sees before they touch anything.
Announced August 2024, expected to close by the end of that year. Check Point did not disclose terms; the figure comes from Israeli press reporting.
- Veritiundisclosed
Threat exposure management with automated remediation across a mixed security estate.
Became: Threat exposure management within Infinity.
Listed on Check Point's own history page. Terms not published there.
- Lakeraundisclosed
AI-native security - protecting AI applications and the models behind them.
Became: Check Point's AI security line, the newest category on the list.
Listed on Check Point's own history page. Terms not published there.