Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has announced an agreement to acquire Lakera, a company specialising in AI-native security. With this acquisition, Check Point aims to deliver one of the industry’s first complete end-to-end AI security stacks, helping enterprises protect themselves as they adopt artificial intelligence at scale.
“AI is transforming every business process, but it also introduces new attack surfaces,” said Nadav Zafrir, CEO at Check Point Software Technologies. “We chose Lakera because it brings AI-native security, superior precision, and speed at scale. Together we are setting the benchmark for how enterprises adopt and trust AI.”
As enterprises increasingly embed large language models, generative AI, and autonomous agents into core operations, the scope for innovation grows. However, this also increases exposure to risks such as data leaks, manipulation of models, and vulnerabilities in multi-agent systems and autonomous decision-making. In this evolving landscape, real-time AI-native security has become a critical business requirement.
Check Point already addresses these challenges through GenAI Protect, SaaS and API security solutions, advanced data loss prevention, and machine learning-driven protections for applications, cloud, and endpoints. By integrating Lakera’s capabilities, Check Point will expand its security offerings to cover the entire lifecycle of AI models, agents, and data. The combination of Lakera’s runtime protection with the AI-powered Check Point Infinity architecture is expected to give enterprises the confidence to innovate at scale without compromising security.
“Lakera was purpose-built for the AI era, with real-time runtime security and research at its core,” said David Haber, Co-Founder and CEO at Lakera. “Joining Check Point allows us to accelerate and scale our mission globally. Together we will protect LLMs, generative AI, and agents with the speed, accuracy, and guardrails enterprises need to embrace AI with confidence.”
Lakera was founded by AI experts with experience at Google and Meta, and operates research and development centres in Zurich and San Francisco. Its key products, Lakera Red and Lakera Guard, provide pre-deployment assessments and real-time runtime enforcement to secure large language models, AI agents, and multimodal workflows. The platform combines runtime protection with continuous red teaming, supported by Gandalf, a global leader in adversarial AI networks.
This approach ensures that defences remain adaptive and ahead of emerging threats. Lakera’s technologies are already trusted by Fortune 500 companies and backed by a team of 11 PhDs, ensuring technical depth and enterprise-grade resilience.
With this acquisition, Check Point is positioning itself at the forefront of AI security, offering enterprises a unified system to safely integrate and scale artificial intelligence across their operations.
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