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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP – Get Free Report) was the target of unusually large options trading activity on Thursday. Stock traders bought 11,718 call options on the stock. This represents an increase of approximately 595% compared to the typical volume of 1,685 call options.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades A number of research analysts have issued reports on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reduced their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $185.00 to $135.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, May 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $168.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Cantor Fitzgerald cut their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $190.00 to $175.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, April 21st. Guggenheim upgraded Check Point Software Technologies from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $188.00 price objective for the company in a research report on Wednesday, July 1st. Finally, Weiss Ratings lowered Check Point Software Technologies from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. Ten investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $150.70.

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Check Point Software Technologies Trading Up 3.1% Shares of NASDAQ:CHKP opened at $136.51 on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average of $129.11 and a 200-day moving average of $149.20. The company has a current ratio of 1.85, a quick ratio of 1.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70. The firm has a market cap of $14.42 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.02, a P/E/G ratio of 3.91 and a beta of 0.49. Check Point Software Technologies has a twelve month low of $112.23 and a twelve month high of $225.23.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.42 by $0.08. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.37% and a return on equity of 38.79%. The business had revenue of $668.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $672.55 million. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $2.21 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. Check Point Software Technologies has set its FY 2026 guidance at 10.050-10.850 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 2.400-2.500 EPS. As a group, analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.46 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Check Point Software Technologies In related news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $140.28, for a total value of $3,507,000.00. Following the sale, the director owned 4,008 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $562,242.24. This trade represents a 86.18% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Corporate insiders own 29.00% of the company’s stock.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Check Point Software Technologies Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% in the fourth quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 7,937,229 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,472,832,000 after buying an additional 1,766,774 shares during the period. Norges Bank acquired a new position in Check Point Software Technologies during the fourth quarter worth about $731,276,000. First Trust Advisors LP raised its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 6.3% in the fourth quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,654,602 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $492,588,000 after acquiring an additional 157,327 shares in the last quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. raised its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 9.3% in the second quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 2,001,247 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $442,733,000 after acquiring an additional 170,373 shares in the last quarter. Finally, DNB Asset Management AS lifted its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 105.0% in the 4th quarter. DNB Asset Management AS now owns 1,820,339 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $337,782,000 after acquiring an additional 932,485 shares during the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Check Point Software Technologies Company Profile (Get Free Report)

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli-founded cybersecurity company that develops, markets and supports a broad portfolio of network, cloud and endpoint security products. Founded in 1993, the company was an early pioneer of stateful inspection firewall technology and later developed a modular “software blade” approach that allowed customers to combine protection capabilities. Check Point’s product set spans physical and virtual security appliances, software and cloud-native services designed to prevent cyberattacks, protect data and simplify security management for enterprises and service providers.

Key product families include Quantum Security Gateways (on-premises and hybrid appliances), CloudGuard (cloud security posture and workload protection), Harmony (endpoint, remote access and unified endpoint security), and SandBlast (advanced threat prevention and sandboxing).

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New Annual AI Security Report 2026 documents live intrusions run by AI, a vulnerability window compressed from days to hours, and high-risk enterprise AI interactions doubling year-on-year

, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader in cyber security solutions, today published its Annual AI Security Report 2026 from Check Point Research, documenting a decisive shift over the past twelve months: artificial intelligence has moved from assisting attackers to operating attacks. Where AI once helped criminals prepare, it now runs live intrusions with minimal human direction, compressing the time defenders have to respond and opening new attack surfaces across the enterprise, as enterprise adoption of AI outpaces AI governance controls.

The report is grounded in real incidents, telemetry, and original case studies from the past year, and sets out what has changed for defenders as AI participates directly at every stage of the attack chain. As enterprises accelerate spending on AI infrastructure, the same systems they are investing in are becoming the attack surface, widening the gap between AI adoption and the controls needed to secure it. Read the full Check Point Annual AI Security Report 2026 for the complete findings and defender guidance.

Key findings from the Annual AI Security Report 2026:

AI is now operating attacks, not just enabling them. Researchers documented intrusions in which AI ran exploitation workflows autonomously, generating thousands of executed commands across dozens of sessions with minimal human direction between steps. In one breach of nine Mexican government agencies, a single operator ran two commercial AI tools together, Claude Code to break in and explore networks and GPT-4.1, generating 5,317 AI-executed commands across 34 attack sessions, to analyze stolen data and task follow-on activity, according to industry reports. Regulators are responding to an AI-compressed vulnerability window. AI can now turn a fresh vulnerability disclosure into a working exploit within hours, prompting government authorities to shorten mandated remediation timelines to as little as 12 hours for the most critical internet-facing systems. Detections of long, malicious prompt-injection payloads rose roughly fivefold between March and May 2026. The sharp increase in large malicious payloads is consistent with indirect prompt injection becoming a routine attack path and operational enterprise risk rather than a theoretical one, as AI itself becomes an attack surface. Identity can no longer be trusted as standalone security control. Voice, face, documents, and real-time video can now be convincingly synthesized, with highly trained reviewers only correctly detecting approximately 41% of AI-generated faces. This will force organisations to move beyond visual verification towards stronger identity assurance, MFA and out-of-band verification methods. High-risk enterprise AI prompts doubled over the year, from roughly one in every 50 interactions to one in every 25. The average organization now runs ten AI applications a month, many without formal approval, while between 87% and 93% experience at least one high-risk AI interaction, monthly. Most enterprise data exposure comes from ordinary, approved use, not from attacks, as employees share more context than they realize to get a useful answer. Lotem Finkelstein, Vice President, Check Point Research, said:

"A year ago we described AI as a force multiplier for attackers. What we documented this year is more significant: AI has crossed into the live attack chain and is now running operations as a sole operation, that once required a skilled team. The expertise barrier that separated capable attackers from the rest is disappearing, and defenders can no longer assume a human is setting the pace on the other side. The organizations that stay ahead will be the ones that govern how AI is used, secure the AI systems they now depend on, and defend at machine speed rather than human speed."

What defenders can do

The report frames the response around three imperatives, mirroring Check Point's approach to securing the age of AI:

Security for AI: protect the AI systems you now depend on. AI agents and applications are targets as much as tools. Check Point governs how agents interact with prompts, tools, and data in real time, red teams AI applications before attackers can, and makes the full AI attack surface visible before an outsider maps it first. Security by AI: match the speed of AI-powered attacks. Intrusions now span dozens of targets at once, with AI handling the work between check-ins. Check Point ThreatCloud AI runs threat prevention at machine speed across networks, email, endpoints, mobile, and cloud, detecting and blocking without waiting for a human in the loop. Security with AI: govern how AI is used across the workforce. Much of the exposure in the report never came from an attack. Check Point Workforce AI Security discovers sanctioned and unsanctioned AI use and applies real-time data loss prevention to generative AI prompts, while Exposure Management closes the external gap where credentials and data are already leaking. To read the full findings, access the AI Security Report 2026 from Check Point Research.

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Check Point Research provides leading cyber threat intelligence to Check Point Software customers and the greater intelligence community. The Research team collects and analyzes global cyber-attack data stored on ThreatCloud AI to keep hackers at bay while ensuring all Check Point products are updated with the latest protections. The team consists of over 100 analysts and researchers cooperating with other security vendors, law enforcement, and various Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs).

About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a global cyber security leader protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements related to our expectations regarding future growth, the expansion of Check Point's industry leadership, the enhancement of shareholder value and the delivery of an industry-leading cyber security platform to customers worldwide. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results or events in the future are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 17, 2025. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Check Point as of the date hereof, and Check Point disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

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The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (BATS:IGV) is down 10.5% year to date while the S&P 500 is up 10.8% and the Technology Select Sector SPDR is up 26%. That gap reflects the market pricing software as if the AI thesis has turned against it.

Own IGV and you are betting the “SaaSpocalypse” narrative, that autonomous AI agents will hollow out seat-based software, is overblown relative to what fundamentals show.

What IGV holds and how it works IGV concentrates on North American software, cloud infrastructure, and adjacent digital media names. The expense ratio is 0.39%, which is fine but not cheap. The fund earns returns through price appreciation of large-cap software equities. There is essentially no yield. You are paying for exposure to a specific business model, recurring subscription revenue with high gross margins, that the market suddenly doubts.

The doubt has real evidence. Enterprise buyers ask whether they need 50,000 Salesforce seats if an agent can do the work. Snowflake customers wonder whether AI models will bypass the data warehouse entirely.

Fundamentals versus the panic ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW | NOW Price Prediction), a top holding, reported Q4 revenue of $3.57 billion, up 21%, with Now Assist net new ACV more than doubling year over year. CEO Bill McDermott called ServiceNow “the AI control tower for business reinvention”. Yet the stock is down 27% YTD and 48% over one year.

Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) is sharper. Agentforce ARR crossed $1.2 billion, up 205% year over year, with combined Agentforce and Data 360 ARR at $3.4 billion. Q1 EPS was $3.88 against a $3.13 estimate. The stock is down 35% YTD. Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) is the counterpoint, up 21% YTD as it reported 13,600+ accounts using its AI features and raised FY27 product revenue guidance to $5.84 billion.

The Guggenheim upgrade thesis, that the sector was punished past what numbers justify, has real support in earnings. Retail agrees. Reddit sentiment flipped in early June to “The SaaSpocalypse is over” posts on wallstreetbets, with one r/stocks thread on the software rout drawing 391 upvotes and 309 comments. IGV rallied 10% last week alone.

Real risks to consider First, concentration. IGV is heavily weighted to mega-caps, so the fund trades on how the market feels about NOW, CRM, Microsoft, and Oracle on any given day. Second, execution divergence. Check Point Software (NASDAQ:CHKP) missed its top-line estimate in Q1, a reminder that not every holding participates in AI upside. Third, opportunity cost. Over five years IGV has returned 19% against XLK’s 155%. If you wanted tech, XLK crushed the software-only slice.

Who should buy and who should pass IGV works as a sector sleeve for an investor who already owns broad market exposure, believes the AI panic on software is a repricing overshoot, and can size it at roughly 3% to 7% of a portfolio without losing sleep when it moves 10% in a week. It is a tactical opportunity dressed as an ETF. If you cannot articulate why Agentforce hitting $1.2 billion ARR matters more than the stock chart, the fund is probably not a fit for your process. XLK gives you cheaper, broader tech exposure with less single-thesis risk.

The key risk. If AI agents genuinely compress seat counts across enterprise software over the next two years, IGV’s largest holdings face structural revenue headwinds that no valuation reset fixes. The bet is that the transition monetizes rather than cannibalizes. So far earnings say monetization. The tape says cannibalization. IGV is where you take a side.

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Under Pressure: The 2026 Exposure Gap Report reveals that as AI-driven attacks compress the window to respond, the defining security capability is no longer detection, it is knowing which exposures can actually be exploited

, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader in cyber security solutions, today released Under Pressure: The 2026 Exposure Gap Report, which finds that the proportion of critical vulnerability exposures more than doubled over the past year, even as fewer than one in twelve proved urgent enough to require immediate action.

Automation and AI-assisted attack tools are reshaping both the scale and pace of exposure. Threat actors can now test exposed systems, credentials, phishing infrastructure, and known weaknesses across more organizations and at greater speed than manual triage can match. The result is a widening exposure gap, the distance between visibility, prioritization, and safe remediation, and a shorter window for defenders to act before exposure becomes impact.

Key findings from the 2026 Exposure Gap Report:

Vulnerabilities surged: 42.6% of all critical exposures were vulnerabilities, more than double the 18.7% recorded a year earlier, making them the single largest category of critical exposure in 2026. The prioritization gap: Only 7.8% of vulnerability alerts warranted Critical or High attention after exploitability validation, meaning more than 90% did not require the same immediate remediation focus. Risk concentration: 76% of all critical exposures came from just two categories, vulnerabilities and internal information disclosure, concentrating risk around exploitable weaknesses and exposed information assets. Phishing on the rise: Phishing websites grew to 10.5% of critical exposures, up sharply from 1.0% a year earlier, one of the fastest-growing exposure types of the year. Action at scale: Organizations acted on 85.9% of recommended fixes across the industries analyzed, showing that exposures are being closed at scale when prioritization and response workflows are in place. "Attackers are now testing more exposures, across more organizations, at greater speed than security professionals can manually keep pace with. The organizations that stay ahead are the ones that can quickly separate the small set of genuinely exploitable risks from the noise, then remediate them safely without disrupting operations. That is what exposure management delivers, and it is fast becoming a core measure of operational readiness," said Yochai Corem, VP and General Manager of Exposure Management at Check Point Software Technologies.

The report also shows that fast, safe remediation is achievable. A meaningful share of organizations resolved critical exposures within one hour, led by Utilities at 30%, and the fastest sector posted a median remediation time of just 12.6 hours, evidence that even sensitive, high-stakes environments can close exposures quickly.

Exposure profiles varied sharply by sector. Vulnerabilities dominated in Utilities and Government, accounting for 78.2% and 56.4% of critical exposures respectively, while internal information disclosure led in healthcare at 63.6% and Financial Services at 42.7%. Healthcare proved the most challenging environment, recording the slowest median remediation time at 158.8 hours despite a strong fix-implementation rate, reflecting the constraints of legacy systems, clinical uptime requirements, and change control. These differences underline why exposure management priorities must be tailored by industry.

Check Point Exposure Management connects discovery, evidence-based prioritization, exploitability validation, control assessment, and safe remediation in a single workflow, helping organizations close the exposure gap before attacker opportunity becomes business impact.

Under Pressure: The 2026 Exposure Gap Report was unveiled today at Check Point Engage in Paris. The full report is available to download at Exposure Management Gap Report - Check Point Exposure Management.

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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.  
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a pioneer and global leader in cyber security solutions, protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Threat Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity. 

Notes to Editors: Q&A

What is the 2026 Exposure Gap Report?
Under Pressure: The 2026 Exposure Gap Report is Check Point Software Technologies' research study into how organizations discover, prioritize, and remediate security exposures. It was released on July 2, 2026, and unveiled at Check Point Engage in Paris.

What is the "exposure gap"?
The exposure gap is the distance between visibility, prioritization, and safe remediation — the gap between when a security exposure becomes known and when it is actually fixed. As AI-assisted attacks accelerate, that window is shrinking.

What did the report find about critical vulnerabilities?
Vulnerabilities made up 42.6% of all critical exposures in 2026, more than double the 18.7% recorded the year before, making them the single largest category of critical exposure.

How many vulnerability alerts actually require urgent action?
Only 7.8% of vulnerability alerts — fewer than 1 in 12 — warranted Critical or High attention after exploitability validation. More than 90% did not require immediate remediation focus.

What are the biggest sources of critical exposure?
76% of all critical exposures came from just two categories: vulnerabilities and internal information disclosure.

Is phishing a growing exposure category?
Yes. Phishing websites grew to 10.5% of critical exposures in 2026, up sharply from 1.0% the year before — one of the fastest-growing exposure types measured.

Are organizations able to keep up with remediation?
Yes. Organizations acted on 85.9% of recommended fixes across the industries analyzed, showing exposures can be closed at scale with the right prioritization and workflows in place.

How fast can organizations remediate critical exposures?
The fastest sector posted a median remediation time of 12.6 hours. Utilities led in same-hour resolution, with 30% of critical exposures resolved within one hour.

Which industry is slowest to remediate, and why?
Healthcare recorded the slowest median remediation time, at 158.8 hours, despite a strong fix-implementation rate — reflecting legacy systems, clinical uptime requirements, and change control constraints.

What does Check Point recommend organizations do?
Move from detection-first to exposure-first security: validate which exposures are genuinely exploitable, prioritize based on evidence rather than alert volume, and remediate safely without disrupting operations.

What is Check Point Exposure Management?
A capability within Check Point's Exposure Management pillar that connects discovery, evidence-based prioritization, exploitability validation, control assessment, and safe remediation in a single workflow.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements related to our expectations regarding our products and solutions, our expectations regarding future growth, the expansion of Check Point's industry leadership, the enhancement of shareholder value and the delivery of an industry-leading cyber security platform to customers worldwide. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results or events in the future are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2026. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Check Point as of the date hereof, and Check Point disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law. 

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) a pioneer and global leader in cyber security solutions, today announced it is a partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new independent cloud for Europe.

Check Point's Cloud Firewall offering is now available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, further supporting customers in Europe. Check Point solutions deliver prevention-first security across network, workload, and application layers, while providing customers with the same availability and performance they expect from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Availability on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud enables European organisations to meet stringent operational autonomy and data residency requirements within the European Union.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a fully featured, independently operated sovereign cloud backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections designed to meet the needs of European governments and enterprises. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud infrastructure is entirely located within the EU and operates independently from existing AWS Regions. Customers using the AWS European Sovereign Cloud benefit from the full power of AWS including the same service portfolio, security, availability, performance, familiar architecture, APIs, and innovations such as the AWS Nitro System.

"The AWS European Sovereign Cloud represents a significant step forward for organisations operating under EU regulatory frameworks. Check Point's Cloud Firewall solution on this independent cloud infrastructure enables our customers to run their most sensitive workloads with operational autonomy and data residency entirely within the EU. With Check Point's prevention-first security and AI-powered threat intelligence, plus the sovereignty controls and technical assurances of AWS, we're delivering the compliance support and innovation our customers need to accelerate their digital transformation while meeting stringent regulatory requirements."

— Joaquin Reixa, Vice President, Western Europe, Check Point Software Technologies

Customers can begin planning their transition to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud today. To learn more about Check Point's Cloud Firewall and WAF offerings available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, visit Public Cloud AWS Security - Check Point Software.

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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.  
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a global cyber security leader protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements related to the expected availability and rollout of Check Point solutions on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, customers' ability to deploy and operate workloads on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud as it becomes available, and our expectations regarding the benefits of these offerings. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results or events in the future are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 17, 2025. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Check Point as of the date hereof, and Check Point disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, announced today its upcoming integration with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The integration extends Check Point's trusted security controls into agentic workflows.

Through the integration, Check Point will provide AI behavioral monitoring for destructive or misaligned actions, AI-native guardrails for prompt attacks and content moderation, and partner-specific detection signals such as prompt injection detection, sensitive data and DLP indicators, content inspection, and behavioral threat detection. These signals feed into AgentCore policy, where AgentCore acts at the gateway, outside the agent's reasoning loop. This enables enterprise security teams to pair Check Point's detection capabilities with deterministic, automated enforcement. While detection may be probabilistic, enforcement remains deterministic, giving customers consistent allow-or-deny decisions for every agent action.

"AI agents are no longer just answering questions — they are taking action, which changes how enterprises must approach security," said Adam Ely, GM of AI Security at Check Point. "With Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, we are bringing Check Point's behavioral security into the enterprise agent lifecycle, helping organizations move beyond defining what agents are permitted to do and toward ensuring they do the right thing. Permissions define the boundary. We secure what happens inside it."

The upcoming Amazon Bedrock AgentCore integration is Check Point's latest advancement in securing AI workloads for AWS customers. Customers can learn more about Check Point with AgentCore here.

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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a global cyber security leader protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements related to our expectations regarding our products and solutions, our expectations regarding future growth, the expansion of Check Point's industry leadership, the enhancement of shareholder value and the delivery of an industry-leading cyber security platform to customers worldwide. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results or events in the future are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2026. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Check Point as of the date hereof, and Check Point disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

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 The expanded partnership places Check Point among a select group of security vendors cleared to bring OpenAI's defensive AI into the tools enterprises use every day 

, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced the use of OpenAI's frontier cyber capabilities into its customer-facing defenses. Through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, open to only a select group of security vendors, Check Point can embed OpenAI models directly into the products, workflows, and managed services its customers rely on. 

It marks a meaningful shift, from using these models internally to embedding them directly inside the defenses that protect customers, carrying the safety controls, abuse-prevention standards, and scoped outputs that enterprise security demands. The aim is to sharpen threat prevention, faster remediation, and stronger security operations, delivered through the products and services customers already rely on. 

The threat landscape is being shaped by AI. Threat actors are using it to move faster, craft more convincing attacks, and find weaknesses at scale. Defenders need equivalent or stronger capabilities, delivered safely and within clear boundaries. The quality of the models powering defensive workflows has become a strategic variable, not a technical detail. 

"Our partnership with OpenAI represents a shared commitment to putting highly advanced AI to work inside the Check Point defenses customers rely on. As one of a select group of security vendors chosen for the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Check Point is uniquely positioned to bring frontier AI capabilities directly into the security solutions customers depend on every day. This is what it means to lead in AI-powered security: not just adopting new technology, but shaping how it gets built and deployed responsibly across the industry," said Roi Karo, Chief Strategy Officer at Check Point Software.

Through this expanded partnership, Check Point is identifying the defensive security workflows and solutions where OpenAI's trusted access for cyber models, paired with the right safeguards, can deliver measurable customer value.

Check Point and OpenAI are working together to help define the standards for using trusted access frontier AI responsibly in security, building protections against misuse and the controls to catch and stop it. The rollout is deliberately gradual: it begins with carefully controlled defensive uses and widens only as those protections prove themselves. This disciplined approach reflects how Check Point brings AI into its platform across the board, with the rigor and responsibility enterprise security demands. 

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a global cyber security leader protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity. 

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As frontier AI models compress the entire attack lifecycle, Check Point and Illumio combine perimeter defense with breach containment so organizations can stop attacks at the edge, and contain them if they get through

, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, and Illumio Inc., the breach containment company, today announced an expanded strategic partnership to help organizations defend against a new category of threat: frontier AI models capable of autonomously executing full-scale attacks at machine speed.

"Security teams are being asked to defend environments that are moving faster and that are more complex — against attackers who are using AI to do in minutes what used to take weeks," said Paul Barbosa, VP of Cloud & SASE at Check Point. "Expanding our partnership both in terms of joint product development and go-to-market with Illumio gives our customers something attackers don't want them to have: a coordinated defense that works on both sides of the perimeter. Check Point prevents threats from getting in. Illumio ensures they can't run free if they do. Together, we are working to close the gap that every attacker is looking to exploit."

Frontier AI models are changing the nature of cyber attacks. Adversaries can now compress the entire attack lifecycle — discovery, exploitation, and lateral movement — into a single, automated sequence with little or no human involvement. The window between initial access and catastrophic breach is collapsing. For security teams already stretched thin, the critical question is no longer, "can we stop the attack at the door?" It's "if something gets in, can we find it and stop it from spreading before the damage is done?"

This expanded partnership is built to answer both questions. Check Point delivers the industry's best security for the perimeter, data center, and networks — with the best real-time threat prevention against unknown attacks and the most comprehensive Zero Trust security available. Illumio addresses what happens inside the network: visibility into how workloads communicate, exposure of attack paths, and microsegmentation controls that protect critical assets and contain breaches before they cascade into disasters. Together, the two companies deliver protection and resilience as a unified capability. Customers can now procure Illumio directly through Check Point, simplifying vendor consolidation and accelerating deployment.

Building on the 2025 integration with Illumio Insights, which helped security teams connect Check Point threat intelligence with workload visibility to detect lateral movement risk, the expanded partnership now adds deep integration with Illumio Segmentation. Security teams can align Check Point firewall policy with Illumio's workload model across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, reducing unnecessary connectivity and making it significantly harder for attackers to move undetected through the network once inside.

"AI is compressing the time between intrusion and impact, fundamentally changing the math for defenders," said Andrew Rubin, CEO and founder of Illumio. "Cyber security now has two jobs: prevent what you can, and for everything else, find it fast and stop it from spreading. That's exactly why Illumio and Check Point are working together—to help organizations change that math and contain attacks before they become disasters."

The result is a more complete security architecture for the AI era. Check Point's prevention-first enforcement stops threats at key network boundaries. Illumio Insights surfaces suspicious movement and attack paths across hybrid environments. And Illumio Segmentation, now more tightly aligned with Check Point firewall policy, limits how far any threat can travel once inside. For security teams managing more systems, more connectivity, and more change than ever before, this combination means faster detection, smarter decisions, and incidents contained before they become disasters.

"IDC forecasts microsegmentation to grow at 23.5% CAGR as organizations shift from evaluation to scaled deployment, with 96% of buyers experiencing a noticeable improvement in security posture, cyber resiliency, and ransomware preparedness. However, customers today are often overburdened with disparate tools and products, and IDC research shows that 98.3% of microsegmentation buyers prefer their solution to have tight integration with SASE, firewall, or other zero trust technologies," said Pete Finalle, Research Manager at IDC. "This partnership directly addresses these concerns, as microsegmentation and the broader network security stack are integrated as a coherent platform that simplifies limiting lateral movement and enforcing zero trust at scale."

The expanded integration is available now for joint Check Point and Illumio customers. Additional details, including technical integration guidance, are available in the Check Point and Illumio white paper.

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a global cyber security leader protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity.

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Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by an AI security graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.

Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.

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On April 30, 2026, Check Point reported first quarter 2026 financial results, disclosing that product revenue was impacted by “go-to-market changes implemented at the beginning of the quarter,” which created near-term headwinds in its security appliance business. During the accompanying earnings call, management further disclosed that these changes would have “a short-term impact on our business” and would “negatively affect our 2026 revenue projections.”

On this news, Check Point’s stock price fell $27.49 per share, or 19.64%, to close at $112.47 on April 30, 2026, thereby injuring investors.

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NEW YORK, May 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CHKP). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at [email protected] or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.

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On April 30, 2026, Check Point reported first quarter 2026 financial results, disclosing that product revenue was impacted by “go-to-market changes implemented at the beginning of the quarter,” which created near-term headwinds in its security appliance business.  During the accompanying earnings call, management further disclosed that these changes would have “a short-term impact on our business” and would “negatively affect our 2026 revenue projections.” 

On this news, Check Point’s stock price fell $27.49 per share, or 19.64%, to close at $112.47 per share on April 30, 2026.

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On April 30, 2026, Check Point reported first quarter 2026 financial results, disclosing that product revenue was impacted by "go-to-market changes implemented at the beginning of the quarter," which created near-term headwinds in its security appliance business. During the accompanying earnings call, management further disclosed that these changes would have "a short-term impact on our business" and would "negatively affect our 2026 revenue projections."

On this news, Check Point's stock price fell $27.49 per share, or 19.64%, to close at $112.47 per share on April 30, 2026.

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NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CHKP). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at [email protected] or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.

The investigation concerns whether Check Point and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.

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On April 30, 2026, Check Point reported first quarter 2026 financial results, disclosing that product revenue was impacted by “go-to-market changes implemented at the beginning of the quarter,” which created near-term headwinds in its security appliance business. During the accompanying earnings call, management further disclosed that these changes would have “a short-term impact on our business” and would “negatively affect our 2026 revenue projections.” 

On this news, Check Point’s stock price fell $27.49 per share, or 19.64%, to close at $112.47 per share on April 30, 2026.

Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP) Shareholders Who Lost Money -- Contact Law Offices of Howard G. Smith About Securities Fraud Investigation Law Offices of Howard G. Smith continues its investigation on behalf of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CHKP) investors concerning the Company’s possible violations of federal securities laws.

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On April 30, 2026, Check Point reported first quarter 2026 financial results, disclosing that product revenue was impacted by “go-to-market changes implemented at the beginning of the quarter,” which created near-term headwinds in its security appliance business. During the accompanying earnings call, management further disclosed that these changes would have “a short-term impact on our business” and would “negatively affect our 2026 revenue projections.”

On this news, Check Point’s stock price fell $27.49 per share, or 19.64%, to close at $112.47 on April 30, 2026, thereby injuring investors.

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Time to Buy These Up-and-Coming Software Firms?Check Point Software Technologies NASDAQ: CHKP executives said the company has moved past the most disruptive phase of a broad go-to-market reorganization and expects its firewall product business to return to growth later this year, according to remarks at a JPMorgan software event.

The discussion featured Sherif Seddik, Check Point’s newly appointed chief revenue officer; Roei Golan, chief financial officer; and Kip Meintzer, head of investor relations. Seddik, who was named to the CRO role two weeks before the event, said his background includes senior roles at Microsoft, Citrix and Check Point, with experience spanning sales leadership, product management, consulting and go-to-market strategy.

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Is CoStar Group Stock a Buy Before Earnings? Analysts Think SoSeddik said Check Point’s strategy is built around four pillars and a shift toward “multi-pillar selling,” which required a significant review of the company’s go-to-market model. He said the effort began in the middle of last year and was designed to support sustainable double-digit growth by focusing resources on large enterprise customers, new logo acquisition and subscription and SaaS businesses.

Go-to-Market Changes Affected About One-Third of Staff Seddik said the changes were “pretty deep,” with roughly one-third of employees moving into new roles. Even employees who remained in existing positions often received new account or partner assignments as the company narrowed its focus to fewer, larger customers and partners.

Sentinel One Stock Is the Growth Story Goldman Sachs Is Buying“We are absolutely convinced that it is the right model to take us forward,” Seddik said. He added that Check Point believes it has exited the disruption phase and moved into execution, with improving funnel generation across the company’s product portfolio, including firewall.

The reorganization included increased investment in customer success, renewal teams, specialist sales and partner programs. Seddik said the company also shifted toward a hunter-farmer model for its largest strategic customers and prospects, hiring more “hunter” profiles focused on new customer acquisition.

Firewall Business Saw Near-Term Disruption Golan said the disruption most affected the company’s firewall appliance business, particularly new business handled by generalist account teams. Renewals were less affected, he said, because they were managed separately and involve a different selling motion.

Golan said the company saw delays in pipeline generation early in the year, especially in January and February, which affected the second-quarter outlook and may also affect third-quarter results. He said net new firewall business typically has a sales cycle of five to nine months, and sometimes longer.

“The main impact is Q2,” Golan said, adding that Check Point updated its guidance because of the pipeline disruption. He said the issue was not limited to new logos, but also included expansion projects with existing customers, such as data center expansions.

Seddik said the reorganization was launched to the field on Jan. 6. He said funnel generation improved in February, was strong in March and was even stronger in April on a year-over-year basis. He also said new-logo pipeline is growing faster than the overall pipeline, which was one of the company’s strategic objectives.

Golan said Check Point expects product revenue to decline in the second quarter and probably also in the third quarter due to the disruption, but said the company expects the firewall product business to return to growth from the fourth quarter onward.

Competitive Displacement and AI Data Centers Identified as Growth Areas Seddik said Check Point is launching a competitive displacement program that includes three main elements: focusing on use cases where the company believes it has differentiation, offering partner incentives and pre-approved pricing levels, and providing customer transition support.

He said the company has built tooling to automate the movement of policies and rules from other vendors’ platforms to Check Point’s platform. It is also offering both CapEx and OpEx models, depending on customer preference.

Seddik said Check Point has “ring-fenced” aggressive displacement pricing with policies requiring proof of displacement, in order to prevent that pricing from affecting normal deals.

AI data centers were another major focus of the discussion. Seddik said data centers represent the majority of Check Point’s firewall business, though not the majority of the company’s total business. He said the company is starting from a position of strength in data center security and expects AI data centers to provide additional opportunities.

Seddik cited Check Point’s partnership with NVIDIA, saying the company can run its firewall on NVIDIA’s data processing unit, or DPU. He said that approach can help address latency concerns while leaving the GPU available for AI workloads. He also pointed to Check Point’s Lakera acquisition for AI guardrails, its Maestro architecture for scalability and its web application firewall capabilities as part of a broader AI data center security offering.

According to Seddik, Check Point has already won AI data center deals in Asia and the Middle East and is discussing large opportunities in the Americas and Western Europe. He said some deals can lead to follow-on opportunities when customers include Check Point’s security capabilities in services they offer to their own customers.

Executives Say Macro Was Not the Cause of Guidance Change Golan said the company does not view the recent guidance update as a result of macroeconomic conditions. He acknowledged that rising memory costs could potentially influence customer behavior, but said Check Point is not currently seeing broad evidence that customers are delaying refreshes because of those costs.

Seddik said customers are placing increased emphasis on cybersecurity and reprioritizing within security budgets, although he said he has not seen customers broadly increasing cybersecurity budgets by large amounts. He said there are no signs that budgets are being reduced.

Seddik also said exposure management is becoming a more important topic in customer discussions. He highlighted Check Point’s acquisitions of Cyberint and Veriti, saying Cyberint added external visibility while Veriti provides capabilities to implement changes across multiple vendors. He said the company is developing capabilities that, with customer permission, could allow automated patching based on defined rules.

On platform strategy, Seddik said Check Point is building platforms within each of its pillars while maintaining an “open garden” approach. He said the company recognizes that customers use multiple vendors and has built native integrations with other security products, including partnerships or integrations involving Wiz, Illumio, CrowdStrike and Microsoft Defender. He said Check Point has more than 80 native integrations with competing and other products.

About Check Point Software Technologies NASDAQ: CHKPCheck Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli-founded cybersecurity company that develops, markets and supports a broad portfolio of network, cloud and endpoint security products. Founded in 1993, the company was an early pioneer of stateful inspection firewall technology and later developed a modular “software blade” approach that allowed customers to combine protection capabilities. Check Point's product set spans physical and virtual security appliances, software and cloud-native services designed to prevent cyberattacks, protect data and simplify security management for enterprises and service providers.

Key product families include Quantum Security Gateways (on-premises and hybrid appliances), CloudGuard (cloud security posture and workload protection), Harmony (endpoint, remote access and unified endpoint security), and SandBlast (advanced threat prevention and sandboxing).

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77% of organizations update security for AI, but only 26% can enforce it, exposing a growing 'AI Security Gap' across the enterprise

, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today released its 2026 Cloud Security Report: Enter the AI Era, revealing a growing disconnect between rapid AI adoption and security readiness.

The report reveals a critical shift from the cloud "blind spots" of 2025 to a deeper challenge in 2026: organizations are no longer just struggling with visibility, but with governance, control, and real-time enforcement. AI is changing how users behave, how applications communicate, and where threats enter the environment. This year, 77% of organizations have updated their security strategy for cloud in response to AI, yet only 26% report having the architecture to enforce it. This reveals a 51-point gap between intent and capability.

Meanwhile, attackers are weaponizing AI tools to accelerate phishing, generate malware, and launch adversarial attacks faster than traditional security models can respond. The impact is already measurable: 78% of organizations reported confirmed or suspected AI-related security incidents over the past year.

"The 2026 Cloud Security Report confirms what many security practitioners already sense," said Paul Barbosa, Vice President of Cloud Security and SASE at Check Point Software Technologies. "AI adoption has outpaced the architecture built to govern it. Agents are acting inside live systems; data is moving through external AI services, and most enterprises still lack the visibility and enforcement to keep pace.  At Check Point, we believe security has to be built into the architecture from the start. Beginning at the infrastructure layer, through clouds, and especially at runtime.  Visibility, Control, and Security need to be present at all layers in the stack AI workloads will operate in. "

Key findings for cloud-native environments include:

Infrastructure Misalignment: 52% of AI workloads span hybrid environments, yet 64% say their architecture needs redesign Perimeter Gaps: 76% rate datacenter security as critical for AI, but only 35% say it can support current needs Performance Challenges: Only 24% can fully inspect AI traffic without impacting performance; 71% report increased WAF false positives Operational Complexity: 88% say AI has increased security complexity; 67% report fragmented policies Limited Visibility: 54% of organizations have experienced an AI-related security incident, while another 24% cannot confirm due to lack of visibility. This means more than three-quarters have either been hit or cannot determine whether they have Identity Risks: 48% cite non-human identities (AI agents, APIs) as a top concern Inconsistent access model: Organizations have yet to converge on a single access model. 24% say they have no AI-specific access controls, and only 16% enforce controls consistently across the environment Closing the AI Security Gap

To address these challenges, the report emphasizes the need for a unified, prevention-first architecture across cloud, datacenter, SaaS, and endpoints.

Check Point's Hybrid Mesh Network Security approach delivers:

Unified Management: 86% of leaders rate unified security management across cloud, datacenter, and edge as critical for AI workloads. A hybrid mesh architecture keeps policies and protections consistent everywhere, no matter where data or workloads run   Prevention-First Security: Real-time blocking of ransomware, zero-day threats, and data leaks using AI-driven insights, validated by a 99.8% security effectiveness score in the 2026 Miercom report Secure Connectivity and Threat Prevention: Identity-based protection ensures every user, device, and application is verified and protected in real time, with consistent security across all access points and without impacting performance AI Defense Plane: A unified control plane governing how AI is connected, deployed, and operated, with runtime protection across employee AI use, applications, and agentic systems Agentic Network Security Orchestration: The 51-point enforcement gap is more than a visibility problem; it's also an operational one. Check Point's newly launched Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform shifts security teams to the level of business intent, letting AI agents autonomously handle policy creation, Zero Trust tightening, and compliance across hybrid environments Download the full 2026 Cloud Security Report: Enter the AI Era here, or read the accompanying blog post.

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a global cyber security leader protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity.

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MSP platform expansion is purpose-built for partners navigating the next wave of enterprise AI

, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced a major expansion of its Managed Service Provider (MSP) platform. Unveiled at the Pax8 Beyond 2026 flagship conference and rolling out globally to Check Point partners, the new platform is designed to help MSPs secure AI adoption, streamline operations, and simplify managed security delivery.

The announcement brings together three strategic innovations under a single MSP vision:

Securing AI and AI usage for MSPs A new multi-tenant MSP management platform with Management Control Plane (MCP) access Unified managed security bundles delivered through a simplified licensing model Together, these capabilities are designed to help MSPs evolve from infrastructure providers into strategic security and AI transformation partners for their customers.

Securing AI and AI usage for the MSP Market

As AI adoption accelerates across businesses of all sizes, the conversation in the MSP community has focused largely on using AI, not securing it. According to Check Point's 2026 Cloud Security Report, while 77 percent of organizations have updated their security strategies in response to AI, only 26 percent say they have the architectural capability to enforce those strategies, exposing a growing AI security gap.

To help address this challenge, Check Point is extending Workforce AI Security into its MSP ecosystem, enabling MSPs to discover AI usage, govern employee interactions with AI tools, and protect sensitive data across emerging AI applications and agents.

"AI is reshaping both the threat landscape, and the expectations customers now place on their service providers," said Dave Meister, Vice President of MSP/MSSP at Check Point Software Technologies. "MSPs are no longer just managing infrastructure -- they are helping customers navigate AI transformation. With these new capabilities, we're giving our partners their first opportunity to discover, secure and govern AI usage, and AI agents at scale in an MSP friendly monthly consumption model with no minimums or locks in in a multi-tenanted environment"

New MSP Platform: Multi-Tenant, AI-Integrated, Built for Scale

The new MSP platform is purpose-built to meet the operational demands of managed service providers, providing:

Access to the Check Point product portfolio in a multi-tenant, MSP-friendly environment Native integration of AI security capabilities, including Workforce AI Reinforces Check Point's open-garden strategy through expanded Professional Services Automation (PSA) integrations MCP (Management Control Plane) for the MSP portal A new dedicated MSP experience team focused on support, onboarding, enablement, and ongoing partner success This platform establishes the foundation for Check Point to serve as a long-term infrastructure partner for MSPs, enabling them to manage comprehensive security from a single interface.

Unified Security Bundles for Simplified Managed Delivery

Check Point also introduced new unified MSP security bundles that simplify how partners procure, manage, and deliver managed security services.

The bundles combine email security, endpoint security, browser security, mobile security, SASE, Workforce AI, security awareness training, and DMARC into a single integrated offering. Delivered through a unified management experience and single SKU aligned to the partners' Microsoft licensing, the bundles help MSPs reduce tool sprawl, streamline procurement, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate customer onboarding.

For partners, the bundles create a more scalable and cost-effective managed security model. For customers, they deliver a simplified, enterprise-grade security experience spanning users, devices, email, SaaS applications, networks, and AI environments. The bundles are also packaged in a simple, easy-to-understand format that enables MSPs to more effectively communicate security value to customers, regardless of their technical expertise.

"As MSPs help customers navigate rapid AI adoption, there is growing demand for solutions that are easier to manage, consolidate fragmented tools, and support evolving security requirements," said Oguo Atuanya, Corporate Vice President of Vendor Experience at Pax8. "Check Point's approach brings together AI security, centralized management, and simplified service delivery in a way that aligns with how partners want to scale and support their customers in the era of AI transformation."

Pax8, which named Check Point the official AI sponsor of Beyond 2026, highlighted the announcement during its keynote, reflecting growing demand for AI-driven security and the expanding role of MSPs as strategic advisors. Pax8 has also named Check Point its Most Valuable Vendor, recognizing its leadership in delivering innovative cyber security solutions across North America. The award will be presented on the Beyond 2026 mainstage, reinforcing Check Point's commitment to advancing security and threat prevention for the MSP community.

The new MSP platform is available to Check Point partners beginning today. For more information visit https://www.checkpoint.com/partners/msp-program/.

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a global cyber security leader protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity.

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Check Point gains access to GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber for high-stakes defensive security operations and dedicated support from OpenAI's cybersecurity team

, /PRNewswire/ -- Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced it has been approved as a member of OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program and accepted into Daybreak, OpenAI's cybersecurity initiative for vetted security organizations.

The threat landscape is being shaped by AI. Threat actors are using it to move faster, craft more convincing attacks, and find vulnerabilities at scale. Cyber defenders need equivalent or stronger capabilities, and the quality of the models powering defensive security workflows is a real variable in that equation.

As a Trusted Access for Cyber member, Check Point now leverages GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber as part of its defensive security operations. This supports security teams with analyzing threats, investigating incidents, or building detections in real time. Security operations do not pause for friction.

Daybreak goes further, additionally providing Check Point with access to OpenAI's Codex harness and direct expert support from OpenAI's cybersecurity team. This is a collaborative framework, and having dedicated support from the team building the models that power Check Point's defensive workflows is a meaningful operational advantage.

"The quality of the models powering your defenses is no longer a technical detail, it is a strategic one. Trusted Access for Cyber and Daybreak give us access to OpenAI's most capable models and the expert support to operationalize them, which means faster, more accurate protection for the enterprises we serve," said Jonathan Zanger, Chief Technology Officer at Check Point Software Technologies.

OpenAI Trusted Access for Cyber and Daybreak membership represent foundational investments in how Check Point integrates AI into its security platform, built with the rigor and responsibility that enterprise security demands.

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About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a global cyber security leader protecting more than 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its mission is to secure enterprises' AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity.

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