Check Point launches agentic network security platform

Check Point Software Technologies has launched an AI-powered platform for executing network security operations without requiring constant human intervention.

The Agentic Network Security Orchestration Platform aims to transform network security operations across three dimensions that have acted as constant constraints on network security management.

The platform is designed to move from thousands of static rules to intent-based policy, from fixed threat prevention profiles to dynamic controls based on risk exposure, and from fragmented vendor environments to a single orchestration layer covering the entire network. It is powered by a proprietary network knowledge graph, which acts as a live relational model of a customer’s real-world network environment. The graph is continuously updated with topology, traffic flows, asset dependencies and real-time configuration data.

Network security teams can input business requirements using natural language and transform them into hardened firewall rules across multi-vendor environments. The platform is also designed to continuously analyse network traffic to identify and remediate shadow access and over-permissive configurations, while autonomous troubleshooting capabilities enable the platform to scan logs to autonomously diagnose failures.

IDC Group VP for Security and Trust Frank Dickson said enterprise network security is at an inflection point.

“Layering agentic AI on top of modern hybrid environments creates complexity that outpaces the capabilities of what human teams can manage manually, [meaning] critical security initiatives like Zero Trust and micro-segmentation languish in administrative density and stall before they deliver value,” he said. “Agentic approaches like Check Point’s ground autonomous execution in a live understanding of the actual network environment, representing a meaningful architectural shift in how organisations can structurally close that gap.”

Check Point CTO Jonathan Zanger said the launch means that for the first time, security teams can operate entirely at the level of business intent.

“With Agentic Network Security Orchestration, teams define what needs to be protected and what the policy should achieve,” he said. “Everything below that, the rule creation, the policy tightening, the virtual patching, is handed to AI agents to execute autonomously, within predefined guardrails and under continuous human oversight. We are turning projects that used to take months into days of auditable action.”

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