Check Point and Illumio team up to counter AI threats

Cybersecurity companies Check Point Software Technologies and Illumio have announced an expanded partnership aimed at helping organisations defend against frontier AI-powered attacks.

The collaboration is aimed at addressing the impact of frontier AI models on the cyberthreat landscape. Using these models, adversaries can now compress the entire attack lifecycle, from discovery to exploitation to lateral movement, into a single automated sequence with little to no human involvement.

Combining Check Point’s perimeter, data centre and network security capabilities with Illumio’s breach containment solutions will provide an offering that promises to be able to stop threats at key network boundaries, uncover suspicious movement and attack paths, and limit how far any threats that do breach initial defences can travel, according to Check Point.

Check Point VP of cloud and SASE solutions Paul Barbosa said security teams are being asked to defend environments against attackers who are using AI to do in minutes what used to take weeks.

“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 defence that works on both sides of the perimeter,” he said. “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.”

Illumio CEO and founder Andrew Rubin added that AI is fundamentally changing the equation for defenders.

“Cybersecurity now has two jobs: prevent what you can, and for everything else, find it fast and stop it from spreading,” he said. “That’s exactly why Illumio and Check Point are working together — to help organisations change that maths and contain attacks before they become disasters.”

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