Check Point's new solution is the latest sign that AI security is being absorbed into infrastructure enterprises already trust, rather than treated as a separate system to adopt.

Enterprises are deploying artificial intelligence faster than security teams can secure it with an AI-specialized cyber tech stack. Evaluating, purchasing, and deploying a new security system takes time, and few organizations are willing to slow their AI rollout to wait for that process to finish.

Security vendors are responding by extending the platforms already running in production, rather than trying to sell enterprises something new. Released in late July , Check Point’s AI Network Firewall is the latest, clearest example of this shift.

These days, there’s quite a bit of confusion about what an AI firewall is. That confusion is itself a sign of how early we still are in the lifecycle of this category.…