Gil Shwed
| Gil Shwed גיל שוויד |
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|---|---|
| Born | 1967 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Programmer and entrepreneur |
| Known for | Founder, CEO, and chairman of board of Check Point Software Technologies |
Gil Shwed (Hebrew: גיל שוויד; born in 1967 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur.[1][2]
[edit] Biography
Shwed took computer courses at Hebrew University in Jerusalem while he was still in high school.[3]
He is the founder, CEO, and chairman of board of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.[4]
In 1993, Shwed invented and patented stateful inspection,[4] which is widely used in network firewalls today.[5] After serving in the army he with two Check Point co-founders used his experience in the Israel Defense Forces's Unit 8200[6] to write the first version of FireWall-1 which was released in 1994.[7]
In June 2005, Shwed received an honorary Doctor of science from the Technion.[8]
That year, he was voted the 69th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ "CIO". October 1, 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=MA0AAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76&dq=%22gil+shwed%22+programmer&hl=en&ei=_JNQTrjmA4H30gGEsNnfBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ "A Fortune In Firewalls". Forbes. March 18, 2002. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/0318/102_print.html.
- ^ "A Fortune In Firewalls". Forbes. March 18, 2002. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/0318/102_print.html.
- ^ a b Paul Fisher (September 22, 2009). SC Magazine interviews Gil Shwed, co-founder of Check Point. SC Magazine UK. http://www.scmagazineuk.com/sc-magazine-interviews-gil-shwed-co-founder-of-check-point/article/149389/. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ "What is stateful inspection?". Searchnetworking.techtarget.com. August 17, 2011. http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/stateful-inspection. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ "The Unit". Forbes. February 8, 2007. http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/israel-military-unit-ventures-biz-cx_gk_0208israel.html. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ Cultural mythology and global leadership. http://books.google.com/books?id=3sARs520GCkC&pg=PA279&dq=%22gil+shwed%22+firewall-1&hl=en&ei=KJRQTsiLJorq0gG10KDsBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFoQ6AEwCQ. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ "March 2003". Pard.technion.ac.il. March 27, 2011. http://pard.technion.ac.il/update/honorlist.html. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Gil Shwed biography at Check Point Home Page
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