Security News > 2022 > March > Check Point spreads AI goodness throughout its security portfolio

GTC 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.

"We want to do prevention first. It's a challenge because we want to really stop the attacks at first sight. We do this with more and more advanced AI with very low false positives and the best catch rate in the industry, as well as other methods that help us [erase] the threats before they reach the customers."

Check Point has been partnering with Nvidia for several years, integrating the GPU maker's products with its own.

In January, Check Point launched its Quantum Lightspeed firewalls, which uses Nvidia's ConnectX SmartNIC adapter card - inherited when Nvidia bought high-speed interconnect vendor Mellanox in 2020 for $7 billion.

"We leverage the Nvidia ConnectX NIC by offloading some of the functions of the security into the secure architecture of accelerated packet processing that exists in the Nvidia technology," Dor said.

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