Check Point’s Rupal Hollenbeck, President, and Dorit Dor, CTO, will be attending the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 next week from January 20-23.

Rupal will speak at WEF Agenda sessions including “Democratizing Cybersecurity,” where she will discuss securing the benefits of technological progress for all as the global threat environment grows ever more dangerous. Rupal will articulate the challenges that arise from cyber inequity, and why we should all care about a secure-by-design standard up and down the supply chain.

She will also speak on a panel titled “Navigating Disinformation, Division and Equality Moonshot” courtesy of the World Woman Foundation’s World Woman Davos event, joining with peers Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Prime Minister of Denmark and current Board President of the Oversight Board, associated with Meta, Angie Gifford, VP, EMEA and Supervisory Board Member at Meta, and Aleksander Kutela, CEO of the leading media company Ringier Axel Springer Polska. With her copanelists, Rupal will speak to the essential role women play in shaping a unified, equitable future during turbulent times. Watch the livestream here!

Dorit will be leading a discussion at the WEF Cybersecurity Breakfast along with security leaders Brad Arkin, Chief Trust Officer at Salesforce, and Aaron Webster, Chief Risk Officer from PayPal. Panelists from Europol, the University of Oxford, and the private sector will join them for an exchange on cyber security’s foundational role in our shared future.

She will also speak at a roundtable hosted by Mastercard on “Advancing Digital Trust: The Role of Cybersecurity in Emerging Markets,” alongside other private sector leaders. With emerging markets poised for technology-driven growth, they will discuss challenges including cybercrime, inconsistent global practices and standards, and more, as well as the fundamental need to build global cyber capacity. Dorit will also attend the Women Inspiring Network’s Power Lunch, where she will participate in their “Pioneering AI with Passion and Purpose” panel.

As we enter 2025, cyber security has never been more important. Check Point’s 2025 Security Report recorded a 44% increase in cyber attacks in 2024 as attackers grow more sophisticated, leveraging tools like generative AI to execute attacks that are more successful and often larger in scale. Edge devices served as a key entry point for attackers, highlighting the foundational role cyber security plays in enabling the next generation of world-changing innovation, like autonomous vehicles. One-third of global elections between September 2023 and February 2024 were targeted by AI-powered influence campaigns, and healthcare and education are the two most-targeted industries for threat actors. From business to the management of our day-to-day lives, we’re more reliant on cyber security than ever.

As global leaders from business, government, NGOs and nonprofits convene in Davos, we’re outlining three key priorities for building prevention-first security in 2025:

  • AI-driven business demands AI-driven security. Threat actors are leveraging AI in their attacks to amplify their reach, efficiency, and effectiveness. By leveraging strategic AI as a force-multiplier, organizations can accelerate the entire threat lifecycle and automate key processes, including policy changes and remediation procedures, allowing security teams to proactively confront malware before it’s exploited.
  • Consolidation is key. Operating from numerous separate tools degrades efficiency and worse, produces blind spots. Consolidation along the platform model not only increases visibility and interoperability, but serves as the foundation for the next-gen AI tools needed to defend in the modern threat environment.
  • Get ahead of cyber regulations. With new guidelines and laws coming from governments all over the world, we can expect rules around data, reporting, ransomware, and more to become stricter, with corresponding implications in the cyber insurance market. Organizations that focus on proactive, prevention-first security will be best positioned to thrive under ever-evolving requirements.

Check Point is also a member of the WEF Global Future Council, a brain trust for leaders to support the Forum in its mission to discuss the most critical issues around cyber security, generating insights and analysis and working together to shape agendas. You can find out more here.

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