Check Point Finds 78% AI Incidents and 51-Point Security Enforcement Gap
CHKP•Check Point's 2026 Cloud Security Report finds 77% of organizations have updated AI security strategies but only 26% can enforce them, creating a 51-point enforcement gap. 78% reported AI-related security incidents last year, while 64% say their hybrid environments need architecture redesign to secure AI workloads.
1. Report Findings
Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report reveals that 77% of enterprises have updated their AI security strategies but only 26% can enforce them, creating a 51-point enforcement gap. Over the past year, 78% of organizations experienced confirmed or suspected AI-related security incidents.
2. Critical AI Security Gaps
The report identifies that 52% of AI workloads span hybrid environments while 64% require architecture redesign, 76% view datacenter security as critical yet only 35% can support current AI needs, and only 24% can fully inspect AI traffic without performance impacts.
3. Check Point's Security Architecture
To close the AI security gap, Check Point advocates a prevention-first hybrid mesh network security model featuring unified management across cloud and edge, real-time threat blocking with a 99.8% effectiveness rate, an AI Defense Plane for runtime protection, and agentic orchestration for policy automation.
