Check Point Software Technologies has announced the next-generation Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator (MHO) 200, helping neoclouds, telcos, governments and enterprises inspect fast-growing, largely encrypted AI traffic and other communications in the data center without trading security for speed.
Earlier this year, Check Point introduced the AI Network Firewall, bringing AI security directly into the firewall to inspect AI traffic, protect AI applications and govern AI agents. It followed with Agentic Network Security Orchestration, which moves network security operations from intent to automation, and AI Data Centre Security, which includes a collaboration with NVIDIA. Maestro now extends that protection to hyperscale, so organisations can secure AI traffic at the speed and volume AI infrastructure demands.
“AI is forcing a rethink of network capacity planning. Training, inference and agentic workloads are driving east-west traffic inside the data centre to levels most security architectures were not designed for, and much of it is encrypted,” says Pete Finalle, research manager: security and trust at IDC. “Organisations should not have to choose between inspecting that traffic and keeping it moving. Security platforms that can scale threat prevention elastically, without overprovisioning hardware, will be essential for neoclouds, telcos and enterprises building AI infrastructure.”
Maestro is a hyperscale firewall orchestrator built for flexibility. Unlike chassis solutions tied to dedicated hardware, it combines firewalls of different models and generations into one system that grows with demand. You can also split that system into up to eight independent security groups (policy domains), each with its own rules, with no trade-off in advanced threat prevention.
Enterprises modernising their data centres, neoclouds and GPU-as-a-service providers, colocation operators, telcos protecting their backbone and government bodies building sovereign AI infrastructure all need to support higher network throughput, and 400GbE is becoming the new standard for high-end data centers and AI factories.
The MHO 200 adds new 400GbE ports and delivers:
- Four times the capacity: total fabric capacity rises to 12.8 Tbps, up from 3.2 Tbps on the MHO 175, in the same compact 1RU form factor.
- Four times the threat prevention: up to 4.5 Tbps of threat prevention throughput per Maestro system, up from 1.1 Tbps.
- Always-on resilience: sessions stay live through failures, with automatic failover across two sites for 99.999% uptime
With the MHO 200, organisations can discover and secure every AI application, large language model, agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server directly from the firewall. For private and sovereign AI projects, Check Point’s AI Factory Firewall integrates with Nvidia BlueField data processing units. Live patching applies security updates on the fly, with no reboots or downtime.