Geopolitics in IT
We started using Avanan years ago and when Check Point took over we slowly adopted things from the Infinity part of things. By now we use the Endpoint solution, Browse Protection and some extra's sprinkled in. Most of it is amazing.
Today we were in talks with a potential new client with specific compliance needs (mostly stuff around NIS 2.0 - we are based in the Netherlands). So they asked what our stack looked like. Everything was fine except Check Point was crossed out everywhere.
Mind you we have been keeping up with everything and have never seen Check Point raised as a dealbreaker. But to this client it is. When asked why the owner stated he would not deal with any Israeli company. Obviously I thought I was dealing with racists but the owner is Jewish. His explanation was that he does not trust Israeli companies that are subject to Israeli law with any form of data.
This is an absolute first for me and we have semi-government as clients who seem to be fine with us using Check Point...
Have any of you had any push back at all surrounding any software?