Check Point Software Technologies Named to Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech 2025 for Blockchain Security Innovation

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced its inclusion in Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech 2025 list. This prestigious recognition highlights Check Point’s innovation in securing and protecting public blockchains from emerging cyber threats.

“At Check Point, innovation isn’t just about keeping up — it’s about staying ahead,” said Roi Karo, Chief Strategy Officer at Check Point. “Just as Check Point’s original Firewall-1 secured the early internet, our blockchain solution protects the decentralized future, offering enterprise-grade, compliance-ready security for a safer blockchain ecosystem. We’re proud that Fast Company recognizes our mission to bring real-time threat detection and prevention to the blockchain, ensuring trust, transparency, and safety across the decentralized world.”

Check Point’s inclusion on the list highlights its groundbreaking work in real-time blockchain threat prevention — a first-of-its-kind capability now active on the Cardano mainnet , among others. This innovation marks a fundamental shift from reactive threat detection to proactive, in-chain prevention, protecting users, digital assets, and infrastructure before cyber attacks can occur. Check Point’s solution combines bold thinking with deep technical commitment to adapt enterprise-grade protection to decentralized ecosystems.

Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech 2025 honorees represent a diverse array of technologies developed by established companies, startups, and research teams. These innovations are featured for their potential to revolutionize the lives of consumers, businesses, and society overall.

“Next Big Things in Tech is both a snapshot of the most interesting tech of the moment and a crystal ball that predicts the next several years,” said Brendan Vaughan, Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company. “We’re excited to share this list with our readers, and we congratulate the winners for their vision and innovation.”

In addition to being honored on Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech 2025 list, Check Point has been recognized as one of the World’s Best Companies of 2025 by TIME and Statista, one of America’s Best Cybersecurity Companies by Newsweek and Statista and included on Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2024 list, among other accolades .

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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. ( www.checkpoint.com ) is a leading protector of digital trust, utilizing AI-powered cyber security solutions to safeguard over 100,000 organizations globally. Through its Infinity Platform and an open garden ecosystem, Check Point’s prevention-first approach delivers industry-leading security efficacy while reducing risk. Employing a hybrid mesh network architecture with SASE at its core, the Infinity Platform unifies the management of on-premises, cloud, and workspace environments to offer flexibility, simplicity and scale for enterprises and service providers.

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