Check Point Software Technologies vs Entrust

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an international provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, data security and security management. As of 2014 the company had approximately 2,900 employees worldwide. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company has development centers in Israel, California, Sweden, and Belarus. The company has offices in the United States, in San Carlos, California, in Dallas, Texas, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Sydney Australia.

Entrust Inc. is a $130 million privately owned software company with 350 employees. It provides identity management Entrust reports having customers at public and private organizations in 60 countries, with 125 patents either granted or pending in the areas of authentication, physical/logical access, certificates, e-content delivery and citizen identities. Previously a publicly traded company, in July 2009 Entrust was acquired by Thoma Bravo, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for $124 million.