Firewall tech pioneer Gil Shwed: Former teen sysadmin on today’s infosec biz

Twenty years after the technology behind FireWall-1 was first developed, the teenage coding prodigy who founded Check Point says that “IT security is [still] very hot”.

Shwed, 44, is the co-founder, chief exec and chairman of Check Point, whose FireWall-1 software, according to the firm, is installed at every Fortune 100 company. Check Point claims FireWall-1 has never been breached.