Across the United States, the average organization faced slightly fewer cyber attacks per week in May 2026 than it did a year earlier, according to Check Point Research — the national figure was essentially flat year over year. In the Central US, however, the trend ran the other way. Organizations there faced more attacks than a year ago, and more than the national average — as they did in every month of 2026.  Through the first five months of the year, the typical Central US organization faced about 1,552 cyber attacks per week, roughly 7% above the national average of […]

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Last week, public sector leaders, cyber security practitioners, and technology experts gathered at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. for Check Point Engage Public Sector: Securing the Mission of Public Sector Organizations in a Hyperconnected AI World. And what was on everyone’s mind? You guessed it – how federal and other public sector organizations secure mission-critical operations in an era where AI is transforming both cyber security defense and cyber warfare. What the audience learned across our several superb panel discussions was that AI has definitively become a challenging and fast-evolving battleground in the push and pull between attackers […]

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