Check Point spreads AI goodness throughout its security portfolio>
The Register – Jeff Burt
Check Point Software has put Nvidia GPUs and artificial intelligence techniques to work across its broad portfolio of security tools in order to address and adapt better to an increasingly sophisticated and rapidly changing threat environment. Check Point is using AI to make life harder for those bad actors. … the company’s zero-trust architecture increasingly relies on AI to drive the autonomous capabilities that are key to the platform. Zero-trust architectures rely on the premise that anything and anyone trying to access a network can’t be trusted and must be verified â and continuously verified throughout the transaction â and given access only to those resources they need.

Check Point has been partnering with Nvidia for several years, integrating the GPU maker’s products with its own. One example of the relationship at work is the Maestro Hyperscale network security product, which uses Nvidia’s Spectrum switches to help the system scale to protect the largest datacenters and networks. At GTC, Nvidia launched its new Spectrum-4 Ethernet networking platform and a 51.2 terabit Spectrum-4 switch.

In January, Check Point launched its Quantum Lightspeed firewalls, which uses Nvidia’s ConnectX SmartNIC adapter card â inherited when Nvidia bought high-speed interconnect vendor Mellanox in 2020 for $7 billion. Lightspeed delivers from 200 to 800Gbit/sec throughput, and can scale up to 3Tbit/sec with Maestro.

Check Point also uses AI for such jobs as addressing zero-day malware and the roadmap includes expanding its use to threat protection for encrypted traffic and DNS in the network. In addition, the vendor will continue to bring Nvidia’s GPUs and data processing units (DPUs) into its products as well as Nvidia’s Morpheus AI framework. ®
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/24/checkpoint_ai_nvidia_cybersecurity/