Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP)

Check Point Software Technologies sells cybersecurity products to organisations. It was founded over 30 years ago by Gil Shwed, and its first product, FireWall-1, was the first stateful firewall. Its international headquarters is in Tel Aviv in Israel, owned under a pre-paid 49 year long-term lease on the land with the city, and it reports in US dollars. At the end of 2025 it had 2,154 employees and subcontractors in research and development and quality assurance, 3,066 in sales and marketing and 1,168 in technical services.

Four pillars

The platform is set out as four security pillars. Hybrid Mesh Network Security is the unified security and connectivity foundation across data centres, hybrid cloud, internet and perimeter gateways and branch locations. Workspace Security covers devices, browsers, email, SaaS apps and remote access, all managed from a single console. Exposure Management combines threat intelligence from the company's own global telemetry, vulnerability prioritisation built on internal and external asset discovery, and remediation applied across existing security controls. AI Security covers the whole AI stack, from how employees use AI through enterprise applications and agents to the models, data and infrastructure behind them.

The firewalls

The gateways and firewalls run over 60 security services covering firewalling, intrusion prevention, application control, anti-malware, anti-phishing, DNS security, and sandboxing and file sanitisation of email and web documents, and every gateway takes threat data from ThreatCloud AI, the company's global threat intelligence system. Maestro is the hyperscale firewall, scaling from 30 Gbps to over 1 terabit per second of threat prevention through a load balancing cluster design. All the gateways and firewalls share one security operating system, and the latest release, R82.10, launched in December 2025 with over 20 new capabilities for enterprise customers, among them detecting unauthorised generative AI tools, visibility into applications such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and monitoring of model context protocol usage.

How it sells

Sales go through a two-tier distribution model: distributors sell to resellers, service providers and managed security service providers, who sell to end customers. Original equipment manufacturers and system integrators sit in the channel too, and the filing treats all of them as end users. A team of account managers, channel managers and sales engineers supports the channel partners. A demand generation marketing organisation was created in 2024 to turn prospect and customer leads into sales leads.

What it charges for

There are three categories of activity. Security subscriptions, which give a customer access to the security suite sold as a service, brought in $1,219.0 million in 2025. Software updates and maintenance brought in $958.2 million and products and licences $548.2 million. By region in 2025, Europe, the Middle East and Africa was 46%, the Americas, principally the U.S., was 42% and Asia-Pacific 12%. Floor space is 380,784 square feet in Israel, 110,427 in the Americas, 81,359 in Asia Pacific and 70,643 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

What it has bought

Two Israeli companies were acquired in February 2026: Cyclops Security, in cyber asset attack surface management, and Cyata Security, which specialises in discovering, understanding and governing autonomous AI agents. The same month the company acquired the talent of Rotate to push Workspace solutions into the managed service provider sector. Veriti Security, an automated multi-vendor pre-emptive threat exposure and mitigation platform, was bought in June 2025, and Cyberint Technologies in September 2024, for external risk management including the detection and takedown of impersonating websites, phishing and social media accounts and of stolen credentials and leaked data. Earlier, in October 2023, it bought rmsource, a US provider of managed security, cloud and IT services, folded into Infinity Global Services.

From Check Point's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025. The filing