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Check Point acts on my advice

22.12.2008
While I admit that senior management at does not arise every day and ask themselves "What would Stiennon do?", sometimes I think they should. A few hours ago Check Point announced that they were going to acquire the security appliance business from Nokia. This is the right thing to do and Check Point deserves congratulations on making the most important strategic move in their history.

But is it too late? It has been a little over two years since my letter to Check Point's CEO and founder Gill Schwed was published in Network World. In that I gave Gil three pieces of advice.

• Move operations to the United States.

• Acquire a security appliance product.

• Innovate.

I specifically warned Check Point: "This is not a time to copy RSA, IBM, Symantec and McAfee by acquiring multiple pieces of the security pie and hope to meet Wall Street's appetite for improved numbers quarter over quarter. This is a time to dominate the network security space and leverage that dominance in the network; not the desktop, not the data, not physical security, not the server, not the data center- the network."