CHKP News & Events

Check Point (CHKP) announced its upcoming integration with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (AMZN). 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."

Check Point Software and Illumio 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. The companies said, "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."

Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled by The Fly.AI EXECUTIVE ORDER:President Donald Trump on Thursday said he postponed an upcoming signing ceremony for his administration's much-anticipated executive order on the AI industry, CNBC's Kevin Breuninger. The event, which was set for later Thursday afternoon, was delayed "because I didn't like certain aspects of it," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.AI MODELS:The Pentagon is testing AI models to see which are most favored by 25 of the department's "power users," as the U.S. military races to find alternatives to Anthropic PBC's Claude, Bloomberg's Katrina Manson, citing a senior defense official. Tests began at the start of March, according to the senior official, three days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk over the company's insistence on guardrails for its technology and moved to drop it as a provider of AI tools. The company is now battling the designation in court, saying it could cost it billions of dollars in revenue, the author adds.The White House's Office of the National Cyber Director held a briefing earlier this week or companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Reflection AI over a planned executive order on artificial intelligence that would empower government agencies to review advanced large language models before they are officially released, The Information's Leo Schwartz and Stephanie Palazzolo, citing people familiar with the matter. President Trump may sign the order, which aims to establish a voluntary framework for developers of Frontier models to tell the government ahead of time about new AI launches, as soon as Thursday, the authors say. Representatives of cloud providers, semiconductor firms, cybersecurity companies, and banks also were present at the briefing, the authors note. Publicly traded companies in the cybersecurity space include Check Point, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, F5, Fortinet, Gen Digital, Okta, Palo Alto Networksand Qualys. Publicly traded companies in the semiconductor space include AMD, Intel, Marvell, Microchip, Micron, Nvidia, Qualcommand Texas Instruments.AI CHIPS:Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed AI server chips as it seeks more computing power to meet rising demand for its AI, The Information's Aaron Holmes and Qianer Liu, citing two people who spoke to executives involved in the discussion. Winning Anthropic as a customer would be a coup for Microsoft, which is pushing to prove the competitiveness of its in house silicon.U.S.-CHINA TENSIONS:Nvidiahas become caught between escalating U.S.-China technology tensions after President Donald Trump approved limited sales of its advanced H200 AI chips to China, only for Beijing to discourage domestic companies from buying them in favor of homegrown alternatives from firms like Huawei and Cambricon, underscoring China's push for technological self-reliance and the deepening geopolitical divide over AI infrastructure, The New York Times' Meaghan Tobin and Tripp Mickle.