Checkpoint Software Technologies Ltd(Checkpoint) is global provider of IT security company listed on NASDAQ and founded by Gil Shwed an Israelite programmer when he was 25 years old. Network security such as firewall and Virtual Private Network(VPN) are critical for data centric companies like banks and highly classified - military/ intelligence agencies which are frequently subject to hacking threats.
Checkpoint competitors are Blue Coat, Fortinet and Cisco IronPort which compete for market share of IT Security market value at USD$180 billion. These security software application functions on web/internet platform tackling network security problems such as malicious virus attacks, spam and data loss.
Checkpoint is a security software deploy and maintain by IT personnel usually
Network Security Engineer
.These skilled IT specialist must also has in depth knowledge of Symantec and Trend Micro security application for workstations and desktop PCs. Network Engineers are competent in
TCP/IP protocol ;
PHP wed database application and
jAVA programming languages.Profound knowledge on Network platform such as F5 Networks, HPN, Juniper, Aruba and CISCO is a bonus/advantage for Network Engineers.
As for database engineer their forte is in UML, mySQL and Oracle unlike some Software Developer (Engineer) specialised in object oriented language C++;UML and jAVA script. In marketplace, System Analyst eventually System Architect manages the entire design,planning and implementation of the whole IT infrastructure/architecture commonly runs on server environment such as UNIX;AIX-IBM;HP-UX or Solaris platform would rather master C++ ; mySQL and TCP/IP.
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