2021 Achievements

CF: How was 2021 for Check Point and its partners? Any significant achievements?

FR: We had a good year, there’s no doubt about it. We had a good year in the channel. We had a good year overall. We’re in a quiet period right now where we’ll be announcing earnings on Feb. 3, but I think outside of the numbers, we had about 900 partners that took their first order with Check Point. We had thousands of partners that brought new customers to Check Point. We had thousands of our partners that embraced our emerging technologies, cloud security, Harmony, some of the new quantum technologies, including Maestro, IoT and certainly all the partners that came over from Avanan as well.

We won a lot of awards for the partner program, which was great. But I think what’s more satisfying to me is just the feedback that I get from partners. I’m not able to mention a whole lot of names, but we’ve had partners that are absolutely household names that were never Check Point partners that are coming over to us. We have some of the largest partners that were our competitors’ coming over to us and saying we really like what you’re doing. So we’re seeing market share shifts that may have not materialized entirely in 2021, but absolutely are going to be there for 2022.