Check Point Acquires Lakera to Deliver AI Security for Enterprises (www.checkpoint.com)

Check Point Software announced the acquisition of Lakera, an AI-security startup, signaling a push to embed specialized protections for generative models and AI-driven workflows into enterprise security stacks. The deal aims to help organizations manage new risks introduced by deploying large language models and other ML systems — from model theft and data exfiltration to prompt injection, data poisoning and compliance gaps — by folding Lakera’s monitoring and detection capabilities into Check Point’s existing network, cloud and endpoint protections. Technically, the move promises tighter model-level telemetry, policy enforcement and incident response for AI assets: expect integrated controls for model provenance and access, runtime monitoring to detect anomalous model behavior or misuse, alerting and automated containment workflows, and tooling to help audit AI decisions for regulatory and IP concerns. For the AI/ML community this reinforces that security is becoming a foundational layer of production ML: vendors will increasingly offer native defenses for model integrity, data governance and supply-chain risk as enterprises scale AI adoption.