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,…
Category: Check Point Blog
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…
AI Red Teaming Makes the Unknowns Known
AI security is getting attention because AI has stopped being a side experiment. It is now part of how work gets done. Employees use copilots to write, research, code, and analyze. Product teams are adding AI into customer experiences. Developers are building…
Check Point and Illumio Expand Partnership to Secure Hybrid Environments
Building on our previous Illumio Insights integration, Check Point and Illumio are expanding their partnership with an integration to Illumio Segmentation, helping organizations prevent threats, expose risky paths, contain lateral movement across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and better align gateway…
The NCSC Patch Wave Is Coming. Do You Know Where Your Risk Lives?
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning organisations to prepare for an unprecedented wave of vulnerability disclosures, driven by AI-accelerated exploitation of technical debt. This commentary sets out how Check Point Exposure Management helps government, public sector, and CNI…
Energy, Healthcare, and Finance: Why Midwest Industries Are Facing Surging Cyber Attacks
Across the United States, the average organization faced slightly fewer cyber attacks per week in May 2026 than it did a year earlier, according to Check Point Research — the national figure was essentially flat year over year. In the…
Travel Phishing and Cyber Attacks are Surging in 2026, Growing 122% over the last 3 years. Here’s What Cyber Criminals Are Actually Doing
Every summer, hundreds of millions of people book flights, reserve hotels, and plan vacations online. And every summer, cyber criminals show up to take advantage of exactly that. Check Point Research tracked the threat landscape heading into the 2026 summer…