Check Point To Buy Israeli Startup Lacoon for $80M

March 19, 2015 | Israeli cybersecurity giant Check Point is in talks to buy Lacoon Mobile Security, an Israeli startup company that develops firewall technologies for smartphones, for an estimated $80 million, according to a report in Calcalist. Last month, Check Point acquired cyber security firm Hyperwise for a similar amount. Check Point was founded in 1993 in Tel Aviv by Shlomo Kramer and Gil Shwed.