Checkpoint Systems history

Eight years later, on June 30, 1977, Checkpoint was spun off from its parent and began trading on NASDAQ under the symbol CHECK. By then, the company's CHECKPOINT technology was already being adapted for use in retail.

By 1986 Checkpoint, focusing on drugstores, would be tied for second with Knogo Corporation, but it still lagged well behind Sensormatic.

In 1992 Checkpoint acquired its Canadian distributor, Checkpoint Canada, allowing the company to directly sell its products in the Canadian marketplace.

In February 1993 rumors that the NARM subcommittee working on the security question had recommended the Sensormatic system sent Checkpoint stock tumbling, losing a third of its value in two days.

Kevin Dowd took over as president and CEO in 1995, with Wolf now serving as chairman of the board.

Checkpoint and Target stores, which used Checkpoint systems and sold a great deal of music products, filed suit against NARM. When PolyGram in 1996 began to employ the source tagging standard recommended by NARM, Checkpoint and Target sued the music distributor.

In April 1997 the suit against NARM was settled out of court.

Also in 1999 Wolf stepped down as chairman of the board of Checkpoint in favor of director David Clark.

In 2006, Check Point raised the bar with the creation of a unified security architecture using a single management console, unified security gateways, and the first agent-based endpoint security.

By 2009, the company acquired Nokia’s security appliance business and FaceTime Communications’ application database, adding security controls for over 50,000 Web 2.0 widgets and more than 4,500 internet applications to our security gateways.

In April 2017, the company introduced Check Point Infinity, the first consolidated security across networks, cloud, endpoints, and mobile, providing unparalleled threat prevention.

In October 2018, Check Point acquired Dome9, making cloud deployments safer and more manageable for enterprise transitioning their IT infrastructures.