A student receives what looks like a routine summer job offer from a trusted school account. The link goes to Google Forms. The email passes authentication. There is no malware, no fake login page, and no strange-looking domain. To the…
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Redefining the CISO Contract: From Securing the Business to Securely Doing Business
Walk into almost any executive leadership meeting right now and you’ll find the same dynamic playing out. The CEO is asking how the company can do more with AI, faster. Engineering teams are already three sprints deep into building something…
A New Ransomware Leader Emerges as June 2026 Attack Volumes Climb Worldwide
Key takeaways Weekly cyber-attacks per organization reached 2,270 in June 2026, up 10% from May and 17% higher than June 2025 Education, Government, and Telecommunications again sat at the top of the industry list, with Education and Telecommunications posting double-digit…
How Unified Policies Close Security Gaps
As organizations adopt both on-premises firewalls and cloud-delivered SASE, security becomes more distributed and complex. Users connect from headquarters, branch offices, and remote locations, expecting the same secure and seamless internet experience everywhere. When Internet Access policies across firewalls and SASE…
Under Pressure: Insights from the 2026 Exposure Gap Report
Risk is concentrating. The 2026 Exposure Gap Report shows vulnerabilities claiming a larger share of critical exposure, and that shift has real implications for how security teams prioritize their response. Two findings are central to this change. Vulnerabilities now represent…
Check Point and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Securing Europe’s Digital Future
Digital sovereignty in Europe is no longer theoretical; it’s operational. Regulatory pressure, geopolitical realities, and rising expectations around data control have pushed sovereignty to the top of the enterprise agenda. At the same time, organizations are accelerating cloud adoption, embedding AI into core processes,…
When AI Invents the Attack: Browser-Native Ransomware
Check Point Research recently uncovered something that changes how we think about AI-assisted threats: a malware sample in which an AI model independently connected a theoretical browser risk to a working ransomware technique, with no exploit, no app installation, and…
Shadow AI Is Not a Tool Problem. It’s a Timing Problem.
Most AI policies are written in the future tense. Employees use AI in the present tense. That gap explains a lot about shadow AI. A governance committee may still be defining good AI use. Meanwhile, AI has already become part…
AI Is Changing Cyber Careers. NICE 2026 Showed What Students Need Next
The 2026 NICE Conference & Expo in Philadelphia was an inspiring reminder of why cyber security education matters so deeply, and why the work we do through SecureAcademy is so important. Bringing together educators, government leaders, industry experts, and nonprofit organizations, the…
90% of the World’s Businesses are SMEs and MSMEs and AI Is Reshaping Both Their Future and Their Risk
Every year on June 27, the world marks the United Nations International Day for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME Day). This year’s theme — “The Future Generation of MSMEs: An AI-Driven Future” — could not be more timely, because…
ClickFix: The Attack That Turns Users Into Their Own Attackers
ClickFix has quickly become one of the most prevalent social engineering techniques on the web. The attack flips a familiar security assumption on its head: instead of slipping a malicious file past endpoint defenses, the attacker convinces the victim to…
Prevention Before the Inbox: Reading the Microsoft Defender Benchmark Report in Context
Check Point Email Security is built to stop threats before they reach the mailbox. It works inline and pre-delivery: it hooks into Microsoft 365 mail flow through transport rules and the API, holds and analyzes each message in real time,…
From Prompt Testing to AI Red Teaming at Enterprise Scale
Anyone can try to break a chatbot. That is part of what makes AI red teaming feel accessible. Open a model, write a strange prompt, ask for something the system should refuse, reframe the request, and see what happens. Sometimes…
AI Has Moved From Assistance to Action. Is Your Security Model Ready?
There is a quiet shift happening inside enterprise AI adoption. AI is no longer just something employees ask for help. It is becoming something the business asks to do work. Employees use public AI tools. Developers build with model providers.…
Securing AI Agent Behavior with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and CheckPoint AI Security
AI agents are rapidly becoming a new operational layer inside the enterprise. Unlike traditional chatbots, modern agents do not simply generate responses. They retrieve information, invoke tools, access enterprise systems, make decisions, and take actions on behalf of users. As…
OpenAI Frontier AI Models Powering Check Point’s Leading Cyber Security Solutions
Check Point already leverages AI, machine learning and other advanced technologies in our security products that more than 100,000 customers rely on every day. Through our strategic partnership with OpenAI, and participation in their Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, we are now able to embed…
The Operational Reality of Zero Trust- And How You Can Change It
Zero Trust usually starts with a clear goal: limit access to only what the business needs. The problem is what happens after the strategy meets daily operations. A cloud migration changes where workloads live. A contractor is granted temporary access…
Amazon Prime Day 2026: Bargains Begin June 23 — and So Do the Scams
When Amazon Prime Day returns on June 23–26, 2026, more than 25 countries will take part in one of the largest shopping windows of the year. Spanning millions of products and generating billions of dollars in transactions in just 96…
What Successful Exposure Management Deployments Had in Common in 2026
Throughout 2026, Check Point Exposure Management was deployed across organizations spanning different industries, sizes, and levels of security maturity. While each environment was unique, the objective was remarkably consistent: bring exposure data into a single view, improve prioritization, and support…
From Stars to Upvotes: The Fake Reputation Economy Behind a Crypto Clipboard Hijackers
Key Findings Trust is being manufactured at scale. A single threat actor built a cross-platform ecosystem: a WordPress phishing hub, GitHub and SourceForge projects, a YouTube channel, crypto forums, and even posts on legitimate news sites, all engineered to make…