CHKP
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
September 14, 2026 · market open
- Rarity
- 1.69
- Peak move
- +7.76%
- Float cap
- $10.7B
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. provides cybersecurity solutions and services to organizations worldwide. Its unified security platform protects networks, cloud, data centers, branch locations, users, devices, browsers, email, SaaS applications, and AI systems. The company offers firewalls, threat prevention, exposure management, workspace security, and AI security through a prevention-first architecture and global threat intelligence.
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8 events · 0 from SEC or newswire · 0 timed with the moveexecutive_remarkAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for a deliberate slowdown in frontier AI model development, backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, citing AI cyberattack and misuse risks.
board_changeCheck Point Software Technologies appointed Yoram Tietz, a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic and former Managing Partner at Ernst & Young Israel, to its Board of Directors, effective Sept. 14, 2026, as announced by Executive Chairman Gil Shwed; Tietz also serves on SolarEdge Technologies' board.
- Key event
analyst_ratingWedbush analyst Steven Wahrhaftig initiated coverage of the cybersecurity sector, downgrading Check Point Software (CHKP) to Neutral from Outperform and cutting its price target to $135 from $160; Fortinet, Qualys, Dynatrace, Varonis and Telos were rated Neutral, with Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, CrowdStrike and Datadog at Outperform.
product_launchCheck Point described its AI Network Firewall, which inspects prompt injections and AI traffic within applications, offered as a software upgrade to existing customer hardware; the Lakera acquisition was said to be in an early stage.
peer_disclosureFollowing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI development, cybersecurity peers rallied on Sept 14, with CrowdStrike up 14% to $236.61, Palo Alto Networks up 13% to $372.76, Zscaler up 14%, Fortinet up 8%, Qualys up 15% and Okta up 11%.
- Key event
executive_remarkAt the Goldman Sachs conference, Check Point CEO Kip Hawley described an AI Network Firewall and 'AI Defense Plane', a sales reorganisation moved up to 2026 that splits hunters from account managers, plans to gross-hire 300 sales staff in 2027 for about 150 net adds, said no dramatic growth turnaround is expected in 2026, and said the company is not targeting 6% growth for full-year 2026 or bound to its historical 40% margin target.
- Key event
cybersecurity_incidentThe Dutch NCSC warned of imminent exploitation of two critical Check Point VPN flaws, CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103, both CVSS 9.8, allowing unauthenticated RCE on Security Gateways and Management Servers; Check Point issued fixes on Sept 9.
product_launchCheck Point Software expanded its partnership with OpenAI, integrating OpenAI's Daybreak models into its security platform and Daybreak Defense Network for exposure management, agentic security management, autonomous workspace investigation and NexPloit vulnerability research.