The integration between the Check Point Infinity Platform and the Illumio Platform enables the rapid detection and mitigation of lateral movement risks across hybrid and multi-cloud environments through advanced microsegmentation enforcement. The collaboration allows organisations to combine Check Point Quantum Force Firewalls, Infinity Threat Cloud AI, and AI-Powered Security Management with Illumio Segmentation and Illumio Insights. By doing so, customers can more effectively prevent lateral movement within networks and strengthen their overall cybersecurity posture.
“Stopping lateral movement is critical to breach prevention,” says Itai Greenberg, Chief Revenue Officer at Check Point Software. “Our partnership with Illumio delivers unmatched visibility and adaptive policy enforcement, empowering organisations to contain threats fast. It also demonstrates the strength of our hybrid mesh architecture, which we envision as an open garden, and our commitment to driving Zero Trust strategies with industry leaders.”
Check Point Quantum Force firewalls act as key enforcement points to block malicious traffic. When a threat is identified, Check Point’s AI Security Management software applies a dynamic policy layer to update firewall rules and block the threat. Integration with Illumio enhances this process by providing AI-driven insights to identify risks and potential attack paths, enabling faster containment. Together, the technologies prevent unauthorised lateral movement, protect critical assets, and support consistent Zero Trust security across hybrid environments.
Key benefits of the integration include:
- Collaborative approach to Zero Trust: Protect critical assets with effective microsegmentation across hybrid environments without deployment complexity, making Zero Trust adoption faster and simpler.
- Proactive threat prevention to prevent lateral movement: Reduce breach risk and the associated costs by catching attacks earlier and preventing them from spreading laterally across networks, clouds, and resources to reach critical assets
- Advanced Threat Intelligence: Utilise combined threat intelligence data from ThreatCloud AI and Illumio Insights to mitigate risk and minimise security incidents
“This powerful collaboration between Illumio and Check Point marks a significant step forward in cybersecurity threat intelligence and breach containment,” says Andrew Rubin, CEO and Founder of Illumio. “The integration of Illumio and Check Point represents a shift towards smarter, more adaptive cybersecurity by enhancing visibility, enabling real-time threat detection and response, and providing adaptive security measures that align with Zero Trust principles. Our proactive approach helps security teams connect the dots and uncover hidden threats more efficiently to avoid cyber disasters.”
Illumio Insights and Illumio Segmentation are core components of the Illumio Platform, a cybersecurity platform focused on breach containment. Illumio Insights is the first cyber detection and response (CDR) solution built on an AI security graph, designed to help organisations identify and detect threats quickly. Illumio Segmentation is used to contain breaches, protect critical assets, and enable rapid response. Together, these solutions support risk identification, attack containment, and improved cyber resilience.
Check Point’s Quantum Force series consists of AI-powered, cloud-delivered security gateways that provide unified security and policy management across on-premises, cloud, and Firewall-as-a-Service environments. Quantum Force is part of Check Point’s Infinity Platform, which integrates AI and cloud capabilities to protect enterprises across data centres, cloud environments, and branch offices through a single management system.