Check Point Software Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire Lakera, an AI-native security platform for Agentic AI applications.
The acquisition will enable Check Point to deliver a full end-to-end AI security stack designed to protect enterprises as they accelerate their AI journey.
“AI is transforming every business process, but it also introduces new attack surfaces,” says Nadav Zafrir, CEO at Check Point Software Technologies. “We chose Lakera because it brings AI-native security, superior precision, and speed at scale. Together we are setting the benchmark for how enterprises adopt and trust AI.”
Enterprises are rapidly embedding large language models, generative AI, and autonomous agents into core workflows. This accelerates innovation but also expands the attack surface, from data exposure and model manipulation to risks introduced by multi-agent collaboration and autonomous decision-making. As data becomes the new executable and the Internet of Agents takes shape, real-time AI-native security has become a business imperative.
Check Point already secures this transformation through GenAI Protect, SaaS and API security, advanced data loss prevention, and machine learning-powered defenses for applications, cloud, and endpoints.
With Lakera, Check Point extends these capabilities to deliver one of the industry’s first end-to-end AI security stack. By combining Lakera’s runtime protection with the AI-powered Check Point Infinity architecture, enterprises can secure the full lifecycle of AI – models, agents and data – enabling them to innovate with confidence, at scale, and without compromise.
“Lakera was purpose-built for the AI era, with real-time runtime security and research at its core,” says David Haber, co-founder and CEO at Lakera. “Joining Check Point allows us to accelerate and scale our mission globally. Together we will protect LLMs, generative AI, and agents with the speed, accuracy, and guardrails enterprises need to embrace AI with confidence.”
Founded by AI experts from Google and Meta, Lakera was engineered specifically for AI-native environments. The company operates major AI R&D centers in Zurich and San Francisco. Its flagship solutions, Lakera Red and Lakera Guard, provide pre-deployment posture assessments and real-time runtime enforcement to protect LLMs, AI agents, and multimodal workflows.
Lakera’s platform combines runtime protection with continuous red teaming, reinforced by adversarial AI network Gandalf. This approach ensures evolving defenses that stay ahead of emerging AI threats.
Key strengths of the Lakera platform include:
- AI-native protection: Built for AI from the start, Lakera secures LLMs, generative AI, and agents across prompts, RAG, and MCP, providing real-time defenses against prompt injection, data leakage, and model manipulation.
- Proven performance at scale: Delivers detection rates above 98 percent with sub-50ms latency and false positives below 0.5 percent, ensuring enterprises can protect AI-driven workloads without impacting speed or accuracy.
- Continuous intelligence: Powered by Gandalf’s 80-million-plus adversarial patterns and guided by a dedicated AI research team, Lakera’s platform adapts constantly to emerging AI threats.
- Global coverage: Supports more than 100 languages, enabling protection for enterprises around the globe
Upon closing, Lakera will form the foundation of Check Point’s Global Center of Excellence for AI Security.