{"id":951611,"date":"2025-08-01T07:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951611"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:14:17","slug":"israels-check-point-software-aims-to-go-it-alone-as-cyber-security-sales-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/israels-check-point-software-aims-to-go-it-alone-as-cyber-security-sales-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Check Point Software aims to go it alone as cyber security sales rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: The CEO of Check Point Software Technologies said the Israeli company was not looking to be bought out like some local rivals, as it reported a second-quarter profit boosted by higher sales of products to protect and prevent corporate networks from cyber threats. <\/p>\n<p>Nadav Zafrir on Wednesday said the network security company, which is valued at $24 billion and whose Nasdaq-listed shares are up 17% so far this year, would prefer to use its $3 billion cash pile on its own acquisitions. A day earlier the Wall Street Journal reported that Palo Alto Networks was in talks to acquire Israeli rival CyberArk Software in a deal that could be worth more than $20 billion, while Google is buying Wiz for $32 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: The CEO of Check Point Software Technologies said the Israeli company was not looking to be bought out like some local rivals, as it reported a second-quarter profit boosted by higher sales of products to protect and prevent corporate networks from cyber threats. Nadav Zafrir on Wednesday said the network security company, which is valued at $24 billion and whose Nasdaq-listed shares are up 17% so far this year, would prefer to use its $3 billion cash pile on its own acquisitions. A day earlier the Wall Street Journal reported that Palo Alto Networks was in talks to acquire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}