"We're betting the farm on unified security architecture. We want to enable business rules via the underlying technology."

Despite significant changes in the security market over the past year including IBM's acquisition of Internet Security Systems (ISS) and EMC's RSA Security buy, McKinnel said it has had little impact locally.

In the Australian market, he said Check Point is more likely to be budding heads with niche networking companies such as Juniper, F5 or Avantail.

Check Point's new gateway advisory service, which is three years old, is also tracking well with 60 per cent of the company's customer base using the service.

McKinnel said the advisory service fits well with the company because Check Point is serious about research and development (R&D).