Check Point at the Tipping Point [Fool.com] January 29, 2007

Check Point at the Tipping Point [Fool.com] January 29, 2007: "Check Point at the Tipping Point
By Tom Taulli
January 29, 2007
As a security software developer, Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq: CHKP) must deal with tough competitors, such as IBM (NYSE: IBM), EMC (NYSE: EMC), McAfee (NYSE: MFE), and Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC). To get an edge, the company is investing heavily -- in internal resources and acquisitions -- to build a comprehensive suite of products.
Management calls this 'unified security architecture,' and it looks like the company is poised to get results from the strategy. In the fiscal fourth quarter, sales increased 3% to $160.1 million but net income fell from $89.2 million, or $0.36 per share, to $79.5 million, or $0.35. Much of the decline came from the company's charges for its stock option plan. "

Digital50: Entrust, Inc. News and more Business News

Digital50: Entrust, Inc. News and more Business News: "Entrust to Introduce Five Dollar Security Token, Disrupting $500 Million Security Token Market
DALLAS, Jan. 30 PRNewswire-FirstCall — Building on the wide range of options already available with Entrust IdentityGuard, Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) is launching a five dollar one-time-password (OTP) hardware token. With the introduction of this OTP token, Entrust will officially enter the $500 million security hardware token market. In addition, Expedia will become the first to deploy the new Entrust token."

Entrust IdentityGuard Tokens Provide Savings

Entrust IdentityGuard Tokens Provide Savings: "Entrust IdentityGuard TokenEntrust is now offering the security of one-time password tokens to provide strong authentication for enterprises, governments, and consumers.
The Entrust IdentityGuard Token is an easy-to-use time synchronous token that can be deployed alone or in combination with other authentication methods and is automatically supported in the Entrust IdentityGuard multifactor authentication platform. This hardware token is designed to deliver all the security and reliability organizations expect from a physical security device, without the high price.
Integration with the Entrust IdentityGuard Platform
The Entrust IdentityGuard platform offers a variety of authentication options ranging from machine and knowledge-based authentication to physical second factors such as Entrust's patented grid based authentication technique and the Entrust IdentityGuard token."

Finextra: Expedia to roll out Entrust's new one-time password token

Finextra: Expedia to roll out Entrust's new one-time password token: "Expedia to roll out Entrust's new one-time password token
Building on the wide range of options already available with Entrust IdentityGuard, Entrust, (Nasdaq: ENTU) is launching a five dollar one-time-password (OTP) hardware token.
With the introduction of this OTP token, Entrust will officially enter the $500 million security hardware token market. In addition, Expedia will become the first to deploy the new Entrust token.
'Last year, we entered into a strategic relationship with Entrust because they had the best customer value proposition and the full suite of solutions that we needed. We plan to further expand our brand globally this year and required a more flexible and extensible authentication solution. The Entrust IdentityGuard token solution fills that gap at a price that is best in class in the industry. This is another data point to reassure us that we picked the right company. We continue to view our 2006 investment with Entrust as a secure foundation from which to grow our business globally,' said Expedia Chief Information Officer Bill Holtz. 'From digital certificates to grid authentication to hardware tokens, in a single platform Entrust delivers the range of authentication choices we need to address our range of business needs.' "