The problem isn’t that we lack threat intelligence. It’s that we lack the right kind of intelligence, intelligence that connects what’s happening inside your environment with what attackers are planning outside it. That’s why two types of threat intelligence matter: internal and external. Alone, each tells part of the story. Together, they create clarity. Why Threat Intelligence Alone Falls Short Most organizations subscribe to multiple threat feeds. They pour in from every direction, generic, fragmented, and often delayed. Instead of clarifying risk, they confuse it. “Organizations still make critical decisions based on incomplete or underrefined threat data.” — Gartner, The […]

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In today’s multi-cloud world, businesses deploy workloads across dozens of public and private clouds, each with their own network topology, security controls, and operational quirks. Over time this flexibility comes at a cost of increasing complexity and risk. How can budget minded IT team sanely enforce complex security policies, prevent AI-powered cyber breaches by foreign entities, and maintain geographical compliance across such a diverse environment?  They can do so with a partner that leads with an open garden, agnostic approach. Check Point cloud firewalls, called CloudGuard Network Security, provide integrations across 22 leading public and private cloud vendors from AWS, […]

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Check Point Research identified a potential future attack technique in which AI assistants with web-browsing capabilities could be abused as covert command-and-control (C2) channels. As AI services become widely adopted and implicitly trusted, their network traffic increasingly blends into normal enterprise activity, expanding the attack surface. AI-enabled C2 could allow attacker communications to evade traditional detection by hiding inside legitimate-looking AI interactions. The same building blocks point toward a broader shift to AI-driven malware, where AI systems influence targeting, prioritization, and operational decisions rather than serving only as development tools. Check Point Research has identified a potential new abuse pattern: […]

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For years, ransomware shaped how UK organizations thought about cyber risk. In 2025, that assumption quietly broke. The UK became the most targeted country in Europe, accounting for 16% of all recorded attacks across the region. But volume alone doesn’t explain what changed. The real shift was intent. Attackers didn’t just increase activity; they changed tactics. Disruption overtook monetization. Organizations that spent years preparing for one dominant threat model found themselves exposed to another. A Threat Model That No Longer Fits Reality In 2024, ransomware dominated the UK cyber risk conversation. In 2025, it was no longer the primary attack […]

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