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מוסף שבועי 28.4.22 נטלי קרמר מנכ"לית A_altAT ישראל

Nataly Kremer joins Check Point as Chief Product Officer and Head of R&D

28.02.23|Sophie Shulman

Kremer joins the company after 12 years with AT&T, where she led its Software and Delivery organization and was the General Manager of AT&T's R&D center in Israel. Former CPO Dr. Dorit Dor was named as Chief Technology Officer, with Rupal Hollenbeck being promoted to President

כנס מפתחים דורית דור

"ChatGPT will bring with it a wave of creativity and innovation"

28.02.23|Maya Nahum Shahal

Dorit Dor, Chief Product Officer at Check Point, who was speaking at Calcalist’s developer conference, also warned that ChatGPT may become a tool for cyber attackers: "It makes the attack dimension accessible to many more people in a simple way"

מוסף שבועי 23.2.23 דורית דור

Behind the Dor: “I think of myself as number 1 at Check Point, in my world"

26.02.23|Diana Bahur-Nir

Dorit Dor won the Israel Defense Award at the age of 25, has been Gil Shwed’s number 2 at Check Point for over 25 years, and today lives in a house with four people and 11 degrees

כנס מובילאי משדר ראשון גיל שויד

Check Point registered fastest growth in seven years in 2022

13.02.23|Sophie Shulman

The cybersecurity veteran announced that its total revenues last year reached $2.33 billion, an 8% increase year-over-year

"It's time for a company like Check Point to reach a value of $100 billion"

06.02.23|Meir Orbach

"There are currently 7,000 cyber companies in the world, far beyond the existing demand in the market,” said NightDragon founder & managing director Dave DeWalt. "It's a Darwinist cyber bubble. Whoever survives will be whoever succeeds in the coming year"

גיל שויד יו"ר מנכ”ל ומייסד צ’ק פוינט

"We are in the midst of a crisis, but the need for more technology is great, so the technology market will grow"

10.11.22| Maya Nahum Shahal

Check Point founder and CEO Gil Shwed explained during the Hi-Tech Effect series by Calcalist and Mobileye his insistence on staying in Israel and why the high-tech crisis should have been expected

מוסף שבועי 21.3.19 ד.נ.א גיל שוויד

Gil Shwed: “Check Point stock is fantastic. Nasdaq has fallen 30% but we’ve remained stable”

27.10.22|Sophie Shulman

The Israeli cybersecurity company recorded revenue of $578 million in the third quarter, an 8% increase year over year. “There is no share in Israeli history that has provided the same performance as Check Point over the years,” added Shwed

כנס פורום היוניקורנס 2022 גיל שויד מייסד משותף ומנכ"ל Check Point

Gil Shwed: "I'm optimistic about Check Point, but no one is immune today"

03.08.22|Sophie Shulman

The Israeli cyber giant beat the forecasts and registered 9% growth in the second quarter - 2X the growth rate in the corresponding period

כנס פורום היוניקורנס 2022 גיל שויד מייסד משותף ומנכ"ל Check Point

Check Point: “We have $4 billion to spend and we are looking for acquisitions”

29.06.22|Irad Atzmon Schmayer

Co-founder and CEO Gil Shwed added during the Unicorns Forum that the cybersecurity powerhouse has already reached its recruiting target for the year, adding between 500-1000 employees

האקר האקרים סייבר

Check Point: Iranian hackers attempted to spy on senior Israeli officials

14.06.22|Rafael Kahan

Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former Foreign Minister and Vice Prime Minister, was one of the targets of the operation, which also included a former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, the head of a major research center, and a VP of a major defense establishment

גיל שויד מנכל צק פוינט

Check Point solidifies position as Israel's highest-valued company with Q1 results

27.04.22|Sophie Shulman

The cybersecurity powerhouse beat first-quarter forecasts with 7% growth in revenue to $543 million and has seen its valuation climb to $17 billion over recent weeks despite a rocky market

Marius Nacht: "I won’t have another success in high-tech like Check Point, but in biotech I will"

25.04.22|Meir Orbach and Diana Bahur Nir

Marius Nacht is one of the founding fathers of Israeli cybersecurity, but in recent years he has preferred to invest in biotech. In an exclusive interview with Calcalist, he tells how his interest in the life sciences arose, why it’s important to make long-term investments in Israeli companies, and why he left the digital bank and parted ways with the aMoon fund

כנס וירג'ין לחדשנות 2019 גיל שוויד מנכ"ל ובעלי צ'ק פוינט

Check Point acquiring Israeli cybersecurity startup Spectral for $60 million

01.02.22|Sophie Shulman

Founded in 2020, Spectral’s developer-first approach to security focuses on code safety and trust, fast code scanning, and simple developer experience

"The secondary celebration will not continue. The market of 2021 is over"

22.01.22|Sophie Shulman

Shlomo Kramer is the godfather of cybersecurity. Since founding with his partners the pioneering Check Point, he has built two more giant companies, his latest being Cato Networks. He's also invested successfully in dozens of startups, several of which have already become unicorns

מימין גיל שוויד ו שלמה קרמר

Cybersecurity valuations are a bubble, warn Check Point co-founders

20.10.21|Meir Orbach

Gil Shwed and Shlomo Kramer haven’t been partners for over two decades, but both believe that current cyber growth is unrealistic

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Cynamics raises $7 million led by Marius Nacht

22.09.21|James Spiro

The company analyses 1% of network samples to predict the remaining 99% and prevent threats and attacks

students of adva

Could Ultra-Orthodox women be the solution Israeli tech is looking for?

08.09.21|Daniel Farber-Ball

Battling the human capital scarcity, the Adva program trains Ultra-Orthodox women as developers and helps them enter the local ecosystem

Gil Friedrich Avanan

Check Point acquiring Avanan for $300 million, its biggest purchase in over a decade

30.08.21|Sophie Shulman

The cloud-email security vendor has developed a patented application-programming interface (API) solution to stop email threats before they arrive in the inbox

מוסף שבועי 28.11.19 ניר צוק מנכל חברת פלאו אלדו ישראלי לשעבר

Palo Alto’s new focus on profitability is bad news for Israeli startups

26.08.21|Sophie Shulman

The cyber giant spent over $3 billion on acquisitions in three years, which shot up its valuation. However, as it aims to increase profits, Israeli companies which hoped to be bought are likely going to have to wait

גיל שויד ב כנס חדשנות ב מרכז פרס

Check Point surpasses market forecasts for Q2, recording $217 million profit

The Israeli cybersecurity company’s revenue was up 4% year over year to $526 million, with its cash balance reaching $4 billion. “We’ve seen a 93% increase in ransomware attacks, as Gen V attacks are now the new norm,” said CEO Gil Shwed

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