How Check Point accelerates vulnerability research with Daybreak

Check Point’s vulnerability research workflow used to take hours to complete. As part of the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network, the company uses Daybreak to reduce that work to minutes, according to Jonathan Zanger, CTO of Check Point. Daybreak gives defenders access to OpenAI’s frontier cyber models that can analyze vulnerabilities, reason through attack paths, and identify security gaps in code and configurations.

Check Point helps secure over 100,000 organizations through its AI, workspace, cloud, and network security products. Check Point Research brings vulnerability research expertise to the company’s prevention-first approach, investigating emerging vulnerabilities and translating findings into protections for customers. Daybreak accelerates that research, shortening the path from understanding a vulnerability to developing a defense.

“OpenAI is putting frontier cybersecurity intelligence in the hands of defenders and enabling companies like Check Point to turn this intelligence into threat prevention.”

—Jonathan Zanger, CTO, Check Point

Turning vulnerability research into customer protection

“We’re seeing more cyber threats, and those threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated,” Zanger says. For Check Point, keeping pace means quickly turning information about newly disclosed vulnerabilities into protections for customers. “When a new vulnerability emerges, our job is to make sure our customers are protected against it as fast as possible.”

That work depends on expert analysts who investigate vulnerabilities and translate their findings into security signatures or indicators of compromise that Check Point’s systems use to recognize threats. This research requires specialized expertise, and the team’s capacity was previously constrained by the number of analysts available to do it.

“OpenAI Daybreak can understand vulnerabilities, analyze different attack patterns and scan the code to identify gaps.”

—Jonathan Zanger, CTO, Check Point