The AI era is rewriting the rules of network security. We believe our recognition as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Hybrid Mesh Firewall reflects how we help enterprises secure the AI transformation — end to end.

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Why AI Changes the Security Equation

AI adoption has outpaced the ability to govern it. Only 5% of organizations have full visibility into AI tool usage on their network1. The other 95% are working blind. That gap has consequences: 54% of organizations have already reported an AI-related security incident2. Meanwhile, the window to respond keeps shrinking — the time between a critical vulnerability going public and its first confirmed exploitation has dropped to a single day in 2026.3

Security Innovations for the AI Era

Surviving this shift takes more than another AI security point product. It takes a connected approach built on several key ideas.
We believe our recognition as a Leader reflects the breadth of our protection, as detailed below:

  • AI Network Firewall, part of the AI Defense Plane.
    Delivers AI security at the network level from the Check Point firewall organizations already run, so they gain immediate visibility, governance, and control over AI usage across users, tools, and agents.
  • Protection for Sovereign AI Data Centers & Neoclouds.
    We deliver multi-layered security for protecting AI workloads and GPU clusters at scale, including an initiative with NVIDIA.
  • Security orchestration that thinks in intent.
    Our Agentic Network Security Orchestration moves from fixed controls to dynamic policy and automated cross-product mitigation. From scattered consoles to one place that manages it all.

Industry’s First AI Network Firewall, Part of the AI Defense Plane

Last week, Check Point introduced the industry’s first AI Network Firewall, letting organizations discover, control and protect all AI interactions at the network level from the Check Point firewalls they already use today. The AI Network Firewall detects, inspects and controls AI activity across the enterprise to protect sensitive data and prevent threats.

Learn more about the Industry’s First AI Network Firewall here.

How do we do this in practice? Here’s the drill:

    For your workforce: we uncover shadow and sanctioned AI tools, enforce access controls, stop data leakage in prompts in real time, and keep one audit trail with privacy built in

    For autonomous agents: we govern agent-to-agent requests and implement guardrails to ensure safe autonomy

    For AI applications: we deliver runtime protection and governance for AI apps, detect and risks and prevent threats like jailbreak, model inversion, prompt injections and more

The AI Network Firewall extends to the AI Defense Plane for comprehensive, end-to-end governance and control across endpoints, cloud, AI applications, and APIs.

Protection for Sovereign AI and Neoclouds

Enterprises and GPU-as-a-service providers, or Neoclouds, are building infrastructure to develop and run AI at scale. This infrastructure, dubbed AI factories or AI data centers, requires multi-layered security:

  • Layer 1: AI-Native Application Security
  • Layer 2: Perimeter & Network Security
  • Layer 3: Host-Level Security on the DPU
  • Layer 4: Hardware-Accelerated AI Threat Detection
  • Layer 5: AI Workload & Kubernetes Container Security

Check Point delivers a comprehensive solution that aligns to our AI Data Center security blueprint, including hyperscale threat prevention, microsegmentation, and a containerized firewall for AI workloads and GPU clusters — built through an initiative with NVIDIA. Learn more about our AI data center/AI Factory, Neocloud, and Private AI security solutions here.

Management That Works at Machine Speed

When threats move in hours, your defense can’t wait on manual work. Our Agentic Network Security Orchestration translates intent into policy, delivering one-click Zero Trust posture tightening, pre-emptive monitoring and alerting of infrastructure health, and automated detection and response across multi-vendor environments.

Secure your AI Today

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