For Immediate Release

SKYBOX SECURITY ACHIEVES OPSEC CERTIFICATION FROM CHECK POINT

Enhances Skybox View 3.0 Security Risk Management (SRM) Platform through Integration with Industry’s Most Widely Adopted and Recognized Security Framework

SAN JOSE, CA – January 23, 2007 – Skybox® Security, Inc., the leader in Security Risk Management (SRM), announced today that it has achieved Open Platform for Security (OPSEC™) certification from Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. OPSEC certification ensures that the company’s award-winning product line, Skybox View®, seamlessly integrates with Check Point's market-leading VPN-1® Next Generation™ Software and Provider-1® solutions.

Check Point's security technologies are key elements of many organizations' IT defense systems. The integration of the two products allows Skybox View to collect configuration data via the Check Point Policy Management Interface (CPMI) in order to conduct firewall audits, change assurance, threat modeling and risk analytics. With Skybox View, organizations can proactively and continuously reduce security risk, ensure the compliance of security controls with corporate policies, automate disparate processes, increase responsiveness to business demands, and reduce operational costs.

Recognized worldwide as the standard for interoperability, Check Point's OPSEC certification will ensure that its customers are offered best-of-breed solutions built on the most comprehensive security architecture with software like Skybox View.

“Vulnerability assessment tools have been very instrumental in protecting organizations' internal resources,” said Amir Ben-Efraim, head of business development for Check Point Software Technologies. “Integration between Skybox View and Check Point’s VPN-1 family provides our joint customers comprehensive vulnerability and risk management solutions.” 

Skybox View changes the “rules of the game” by allowing enterprises to achieve an integrated and continuous view of risk as well as automate previously disparate, manual processes. For the first time, organizations can assess critical areas of risk, validate security control compliance, and lower the level of acceptable risk - with fewer resources and in less time than previously possible.

“Skybox Security is committed to deep integration with market-leading security products to support our customers' security environments. With OPSEC certification, Skybox View continues to offer the industry’s most comprehensive Security Risk Management platform,” said Gidi Cohen, president and Chief Executive Officer, Skybox Security.

About Check Point's OPSEC®
OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 350 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program information, including partner and product listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit www.opsec.com.

About Skybox Security
Skybox® Security, the leader in Security Risk Management, pioneered the science of risk modeling and security control compliance designed to streamline and automate the IT risk management lifecycle. The company’s award-winning product, Skybox View®, enables enterprises to achieve an integrated and continuous view of risk while validating control effectiveness and compliance. With Skybox View, enterprises can reduce security risk, automate disparate processes, increase responsiveness to business demands, and reduce operational costs. Headquartered in San Jose, California the company’s solutions have been successfully deployed at respected Global 2000 companies worldwide. More information can be found at www.skyboxsecurity.com.

Contact:
Leslie Kesselring
503-656-2847
Kesselring Communications LLC for Skybox Security, Inc.
leslie@kesselring.net