Check Point named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall

Check Point Software Technologies, a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall. The recognition comes as Check Point continues to advance its Hybrid Mesh Network Security strategy, most recently with the introduction of the Check Point AI Network Firewall to help organizations secure AI adoption. The innovation makes Check Point the first to deliver AI security from the physical firewall organizations already run, enabling enterprises to extend AI security capabilities without deploying additional infrastructure.
 
AI is reshaping enterprise environments faster than traditional security architectures can adapt. According to Check Point Research's latest AI Security Report, AI-powered intrusions are becoming increasingly common, while vulnerability exploitation windows have shrunk from days to hours. Meanwhile, organizations are rapidly expanding their use of AI applications, autonomous agents, workforce AI tools, and AI infrastructure, even as only 5% have full visibility into AI tool usage across their organization, according to Check Point's 2026 Cloud Security Report. This lack of visibility, combined with an increasingly aggressive threat landscape, is creating new security challenges that require a more unified approach to protection.
 
To help organizations navigate this shift, Check Point combines AI-powered threat prevention, advanced threat intelligence, and unified security management into a single platform. By using the network as the vehicle for securing AI transformation, Check Point enables organizations to apply consistent protections across users, applications, AI workloads, and infrastructure while reducing operational complexity. This approach extends from workforce AI and AI applications to emerging AI data center environments. 
 
"Enterprise security has reached a turning point," said Jonathan Zanger, Chief Technology Officer at Check Point Software Technologies. "AI is transforming how organizations operate and multiplying the environments they have to defend, from applications and agents to entirely new infrastructure. We believe our recognition as a Leader reflects a platform built for exactly that: Hybrid Mesh Network Security, which keeps protection consistent from the enterprise edge to the AI data center, now managed with agentic orchestration."
 
We believe Check Point's position as a Leader is fueled by the following key differentiators:
 

• AI Network Firewall, Part of the AI Defense Plane – Delivers network-level AI security with immediate visibility, governance, and control over AI usage across users, applications, and agents. As part of the AI Defense Plane, it extends protection across endpoints, cloud, and APIs 

• AI Data Center Security: Protection for sovereign AI data centers and Neoclouds in collaboration with NVIDIA, spanning perimeters, segmentation and security for AI workloads and GPU clusters at scale 

• Agentic Network Security Orchestration – Uses AI-driven automation to streamline policy management, Zero Trust initiatives, compliance, and security operations across the network 

 
Organizations adopting AI need security that can scale alongside innovation without slowing the business. Dropbox is one of the customers experiencing that firsthand. 
 
"After evaluating several AI security vendors and internal options, Check Point AI Agent Security quickly stood out in terms of its operational performance and ultra-low latency," said Adrian Wood, Security Engineer at Dropbox. "Check Point's AI Agent Security has given us the security foundation we need to scale GenAI confidently across our product lines. As we continue expanding our AI capabilities, we know we have centralized protection that won't become a bottleneck."