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Check Point Launches Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall

🔒 Check Point and AWS have introduced Check Point Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall to simplify scaling network security across complex cloud environments. The service provides centrally managed, preconfigured rule sets that reduce the time and effort required to deploy and maintain firewalls across multiple VPCs and subnets. By automating updates and delivering threat-informed rules, the offering aims to lower operational overhead, accelerate response to new attack vectors, and free scarce IT resources for higher-value tasks.

AWS Network Firewall Adds Managed Rules from AWS Partners

🔒 AWS Network Firewall now supports managed rule groups from AWS Partners, enabling customers to deploy partner-maintained, automatically updated security rules directly into firewall policies. You can subscribe and deploy these pre-configured rule groups via the AWS Network Firewall console or through AWS Marketplace, with consolidated billing and potential long-term pricing benefits. Available sellers include Check Point, Fortinet, Infoblox, Lumen, Rapid7, ThreatSTOP, and Trend Micro in all AWS commercial regions where the services are offered.

Best-in-Class GenAI Security: CloudGuard WAF Meets Lakera

🔒 The rise of generative AI introduces new attack surfaces that conventional security stacks were never designed to address. This post outlines how pairing CloudGuard WAF with Lakera's AI-risk controls creates layered protection by inspecting prompts, model interactions, and data flows at the application edge. The integrated solution aims to prevent prompt injection, sensitive-data leakage, and harmful content generation while maintaining application availability and performance.

Expanding CloudGuard: Securing GenAI Application Platforms

🔒 Check Point expands CloudGuard to protect GenAI applications by extending the ML-driven, open-source CloudGuard WAF that learns from live traffic. The platform moves beyond traditional static WAFs to secure web interactions, APIs (REST, GraphQL) and model-integrated endpoints with continuous learning and high threat-prevention accuracy. This evolution targets modern attack surfaces introduced by generative AI workloads and APIs.

Seeing Threats First: AI and Human Cyber Defense Insights

🔍 Check Point Research and External Risk Management experts explain how combining AI-driven analytics with seasoned human threat hunters enables organizations to detect and anticipate attacks before they strike. The AMA webinar, featuring leaders like Sergey Shykevich and Pedro Drimel Neto, detailed telemetry fusion, rapid malware analysis, and automated triage to act at machine speed. Speakers stressed continuous intelligence, cross-team collaboration, and proactive hunting to shorten dwell time. The approach blends scalable automation with human context to prevent large-scale incidents.

Check Point Scores 99.59% in NSS Labs Firewall Test

🔒 Check Point Software achieved the highest security effectiveness rating in the recent NSS Labs Enterprise Firewall Test, posting a 99.59% score. The result spotlights its prevention-first architecture and comprehensive threat coverage, which the company says outperformed competing vendors. The blog links this independent validation to rising AI-driven risks, citing Check Point Research findings that 1 in 54 GenAI prompts carries a high risk of sensitive-data exposure and that 91% of frequent AI users are affected, underscoring the need for robust network defense.

Lower Your TCO with Check Point's SASE Platform

🔒 Check Point’s SASE offering and its TCO savings calculator explain how consolidating security and networking into a cloud-delivered SASE reduces operational complexity and costs compared with traditional VPN-based architectures. The article explains product, operational and performance savings and quantifies ROI improvements when replacing hardware-heavy VPN backhauling. It highlights benefits such as simplified management, faster time-to-value, improved throughput and reduced exposure to risk for distributed users.

Check Point's AI Cloud Protect with NVIDIA BlueField

🔒 Check Point has made AI Cloud Protect powered by NVIDIA BlueField available for enterprise deployment, offering DPU-accelerated security for cloud AI workloads. The solution aims to inspect and protect GenAI traffic and prompts to reduce data exposure risks while integrating with existing cloud environments. It targets prompt manipulation and infrastructure attacks at scale and is positioned for organizations building AI factories.

New LockBit Ransomware Victims Identified October 2025

🔒 After months of rumored silence, security researchers have identified multiple organizations hit by LockBit-branded ransomware in September 2025. Check Point's report documents about a dozen victims across Western Europe, the Americas and Asia, affecting both Windows and Linux systems. Roughly half were infected with LockBit 5.0 and the rest with the leaked 3.0 (LockBit Black) variant. LockBit 5.0 introduces multi-platform builds, enhanced anti-analysis, randomized extensions and a revamped affiliate panel requiring a roughly $500 deposit.

3,000 YouTube Videos Used as Malware Traps in Ghost Network

⚠️ Check Point researchers uncovered a long-running operation that uploaded and promoted over 3,000 YouTube videos linking to malware downloads. The network, dubbed the YouTube Ghost Network, has been active since 2021 and saw its volume triple this year, using hacked channels and a role-based structure to sustain distribution. Videos offering pirated software and Roblox cheats pointed users to cloud-hosted files or phishing pages that deployed stealers and Node.js loaders, and Google has removed the majority of identified content.

AI-Powered Phishing Detection: Next-Gen Security Engine

🛡️ Check Point introduces a continuously trained AI engine that analyzes website content, structure, and authentication flows to detect phishing with high accuracy. Integrated with ThreatCloud AI, it delivers protection across Quantum gateways, Harmony Email, Endpoint, and Harmony Mobile. The model learns from millions of domains and real-time telemetry to adapt to new evasion techniques. Early results indicate improved detection of brand impersonation and credential-harvesting pages.

Microsoft Tops Brand Phishing Impersonations in Q3 2025

🔍 Cyber criminals continue to favor familiar brands, with Microsoft used in 40% of all brand impersonation attempts in Q3 2025, according to Check Point Research’s Brand Phishing Report. Google represented 9% and Apple 6%, and together these tech giants comprised more than half of brand-related phishing activity. The findings highlight persistent targeting of the technology sector and underscore the need for stronger defenses and user awareness.

Check Point and HackShield Empower Young Cyber Agents

🛡️ Check Point has partnered with HackShield, an award-winning cyber education platform, to deliver gamified cybersecurity learning to children aged 8–12. The collaboration will expand access to age-appropriate resources and help cultivate resilient Cyber Agents in schools, families, and communities. The initiative aligns with Check Point’s mission to build lasting cybersecurity foundations and promote safe online habits among the next generation.

Simplifying Zero Trust Contractor Access with Secure Browser

🔒 A secure enterprise browser provides a practical, cost-efficient Zero Trust approach to managing contractor access, reducing reliance on complex VPNs and broad network privileges. By isolating sessions and enforcing granular policies per user and resource, organizations can grant contractors only the access required for their role. This reduces attack surface, simplifies administration, and lowers operational costs while supporting both short-term and long-term engagements.

Check Point Honors Top Asia Pacific Partners in 2025

🤝 Check Point Software Technologies recognised top-performing partners across Asia Pacific at its 2025 Partner Conference held 8-11 September at the JW Marriott Hanoi. Nearly 200 regional partners gathered to address rising AI-driven cyber threats, share best practices and strengthen go-to-market strategies. As a 100% partner-led organisation, Check Point celebrated channel excellence with awards that honoured innovation, collaboration and outstanding adoption of its unified security portfolio. The event reinforced the ecosystem’s central role in securing organizations across the region.

Check Point Acquires Lakera to Build AI Security Stack

🔐 Check Point has agreed to acquire Lakera, an AI-native security platform focused on protecting agentic AI and LLM-based deployments, in a deal expected to close in Q4 2025 for an undisclosed sum. Lakera’s Gandalf adversarial engine reportedly leverages over 80 million attack patterns and delivers detection rates above 98% with sub-50ms latency and low false positives. Check Point will embed Lakera into the Infinity architecture, initially integrating into CloudGuard WAF and GenAI Protect, offering near-immediate, API-based protection as an add-on for existing customers.

Check Point to Acquire Lakera, Expanding AI Security

🚀 Check Point is acquiring Lakera to build a comprehensive AI security stack for enterprises adopting generative and AI-driven applications. The move aims to protect the emerging AI attack surface by combining Check Point's security platform with Lakera's AI threat analysis and model-protection capabilities. Customers should expect integrated defenses for models, data, and pipelines, increased visibility into model behavior, and tools for managing model risk and compliance.

Check Point Validates CloudGuard with Nutanix AOS 7.3

🔒 Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is now Nutanix Ready validated with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 7.3, delivering integrated network security for Nutanix environments. The update leverages Nutanix Flow Network Security features—entity groups, vNIC-specific policies, and global policy scopes—to extend microsegmentation and policy consistency. Customers can deploy CloudGuard via native Service Insertion and firewall chaining, enabling protection with minimal operational overhead.

Check Point Named Leader in 2025 IDC MarketScape Report

🔒 Check Point has been named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Enterprise Hybrid Firewalls, reflecting the maturity of its Hybrid Mesh Firewall capabilities. The recognition highlights the company's focus on unifying, automating and simplifying security operations at scale. IDC reports the firewall market reached $12.3 billion in 2024, underscoring the importance of resilient, centralized protection. Enterprises face wider attack surfaces and operational complexity that such platforms aim to mitigate.

Networking and Security Trends Driving SASE Adoption

🔒 Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) combines networking and security into a unified, cloud-delivered platform designed for the realities of remote and hybrid work. With nearly half of knowledge workers operating remotely or in hybrid models and many organizations adopting cloud apps and distributed branches, traditional perimeter-based models are no longer sufficient. SASE addresses distributed access, policy consistency, and simplified management while reducing attack surface and operational complexity.