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ANALYSIS
The stepchange in AI models offensive capabilities didn’ t happen in isolation.
• Evaluate your risk level. Look hard at your security vendors’ CVE history. When AI compresses exploitation timelines to hours, a pattern of frequent critical vulnerabilities is no longer a manageable operational burden, it’ s a strategic liability
• Hunt your blind spots: legacy servers, unpatched systems, accounts without MFA, unprotected remote access. The long tail of your infrastructure is where attacks typically land
• Accelerate your patching cycles and evaluate solutions for automated virtual patching and safe remediation. Time-to-patch becomes increasingly critical as campaign timelines move from weeks to minutes
• Redefine and reinforce network segmentation to protect your crown jewels. Assume breach, limit lateral movement and ensure that critical assets are isolated from general network traffic
Check Point brings decades of experience in preventing zero day exploits. Its products are built with security as a first principle, not an afterthought. That’ s why it achieves the industry’ s lowest number of CVEs across its platform – not by luck, but by methodology. It employs teams of attackers who attempt to penetrate its own products. This adversarial approach to security development ensures that what is delivered to customers is actually secure.
Moving forward
The step-change in AI models offensive capabilities didn’ t happen in isolation. It arrived alongside a sharp increase in open source software supply chain attacks, with both signals pointing to the same conclusion: the speed and surface area of attacks are accelerating.
Whether your organisation has adopted AI or not is irrelevant. Threat actors have, and they will continue to push these capabilities further.
As a security vendor, the mission is to keep adversaries out, keep solutions resilient and continuously protect against emerging risks. New models will continue pushing the boundaries of what’ s possible, for defenders and attackers alike. That’ s not a surprise; it’ s the trajectory we’ ve been tracking. What the recent disclosures make clear is that continuous reassessment is no longer optional.
Check Point has been preparing for this new phase of security and is committed to helping customers and the wider industry thrive in what comes next.
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