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Techday NZ
28-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Check Point to acquire Veriti, boosting threat management suite
Check Point Software Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Veriti Cybersecurity, expanding its offering in threat exposure and risk management. The acquisition aims to strengthen Check Point's Infinity Platform with Veriti's automated, multi-vendor platform for pre-emptive threat exposure and mitigation. Veriti is recognised for introducing pre-emptive exposure management that delivers automated remediation of threat exposure risks across more than 70 security vendors, without disrupting ongoing operations. Nadav Zafrir, Chief Executive Officer at Check Point Software Technologies, said, "The acquisition of Veriti marks a significant step toward realising our hybrid mesh security vision. It strengthens the Infinity Platform's open-garden approach, enabling seamless, multi-vendor remediation across the entire security stack. With Veriti, we're advancing preemptive, prevention-first security – an imperative in today's AI-driven threat landscape." The announcement addresses the growing challenge of AI-enabled cyber attacks and the complexities brought about by hyperconnected IT environments in modern enterprises. As organisations distribute their assets across clouds, datacentres, and endpoints, the risk of cyber attacks grows due to an expanded attack surface. Traditional reactive security methods are considered inadequate to address these increased risks effectively. Veriti's platform continuously identifies, prioritises, and remediates risk in multi-vendor security environments through automated patching and collaborative threat intelligence. The company, founded in 2021, has pioneered the Preemptive Exposure Management (PEM) category by actively discovering and mitigating risks that can be hidden in gaps between disparate security tools. The technology continuously monitors logs, threat indicators, and vulnerabilities present in an organisation's environment, and then coordinates protections in real time. Its integrations cover more than 70 security vendors, enabling security teams to detect and prevent attacks promptly without business disruption. Veriti's core capabilities to be integrated into the Check Point Infinity Platform include automated, cross-vendor virtual patching, which instantly applies non-disruptive protections based on vulnerabilities identified by security platforms such as CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Rapid7. This approach can reduce patching time from several weeks to a matter of minutes. The platform also enables real-time threat intelligence enforcement by verifying threat indicators from any connected tool, and orchestrating automated protection across firewalls, endpoints, web application firewalls, and cloud platforms. This coordination is designed to improve response times and effectiveness in multi-vendor security scenarios. An additional aspect of Veriti's offering is its seamless integration with existing environments through an API-based architecture, which does not require software agents or cause operational disruptions. The platform is compatible with more than 70 security vendors and supports a wide ecosystem. Veriti also extends its synergy with Wiz by ingesting Wiz's cloud exposure insights, such as information on unpatched servers or applications, and enables safe, automated virtual patching via Check Point or other vendors' network gateways. The platform's context-aware remediation analyses an organisation's exposures, configurations, and existing protections to apply appropriate controls in a manner that does not impair operations. Adi Ikan, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Veriti, said, "Security teams today suffer from a lack of action: exposures aren't just detected, they're compounding, hiding in the gaps between tools, teams, and timelines." He added, "We founded Veriti to help organisations not just see risk, but remediate it safely, at scale, and most importantly - without disruption." By joining Check Point, we're accelerating that mission. Together, we'll help organisations reduce their exposure faster through the security tools they already trust." Upon completion of the transaction, Veriti's capabilities will be incorporated into Check Point's Infinity Platform as part of its Threat Exposure and Risk Management suite. Combined with Check Point's recent External Risk Management solution, Veriti enhances the company's ability to address internal and external exposures across the complete enterprise attack surface. The finalisation of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected by the end of the second quarter of 2025.
Channel Post MEA
28-05-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Check Point Acquires Veriti
AI-fueled attacks and hyperconnected IT environments have made threat exposure one of the most urgent cybersecurity challenges facing enterprises today. In response, Check Point Software Technologies has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Veriti Cybersecurity, the first fully automated, multi-vendor pre-emptive threat exposure and mitigation platform. 'The acquisition of Veriti marks a significant step toward realizing our hybrid mesh security vision,' said Nadav Zafrir, CEO at Check Point Software Technologies. 'It strengthens the Infinity Platform's open-garden approach, enabling seamless, multi-vendor remediation across the entire security stack. With Veriti, we're advancing preemptive, prevention-first security – an imperative in today's AI-driven threat landscape.' AI has brought cyber security to a tipping point, enabling the launch of attacks at scale. At the same time, enterprises are hyperconnected, with assets spread across clouds, datacenters, and endpoints, vastly expanding their attack surface. Traditional reactive security is too slow. Veriti continuously identifies, prioritizes, and remediates risk across your multi-vendor environment through automated patching and collaborative threat intelligence, all without disrupting business. Founded in 2021, Veriti pioneered the Preemptive Exposure Management (PEM) category—actively discovering and mitigating risks across siloed tools. Veriti continuously monitors logs, threat indicators, and vulnerabilities identified across the environment and propagates protections in real time. With integrations into over 70 vendors, it empowers security teams to detect, understand, and prevent attacks without delay. Core capabilities Veriti brings to the Check Point Infinity Platform: Automated, cross-vendor virtual patching: Veriti instantly applies risk-free, non-disruptive protections across dozens of third-party tools, based on vulnerabilities identified by platforms like CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Rapid7, dramatically reducing patching time from weeks to minutes. Veriti instantly applies risk-free, non-disruptive protections across dozens of third-party tools, based on vulnerabilities identified by platforms like CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Rapid7, dramatically reducing patching time from weeks to minutes. Real-time threat intelligence enforcement: Veriti verifies threat indicators from any connected tool and automatically orchestrates protection across firewalls, endpoints, WAFs, and cloud platform, enabling fast, coordinated, multi-vendor threat response. Veriti verifies threat indicators from any connected tool and automatically orchestrates protection across firewalls, endpoints, WAFs, and cloud platform, enabling fast, coordinated, multi-vendor threat response. Seamless integration with 70+ security vendors: Built with a fully API-based architecture, Veriti integrates into existing environments without agents or disruption, supporting the broadest security ecosystem in the market. Built with a fully API-based architecture, Veriti integrates into existing environments without agents or disruption, supporting the broadest security ecosystem in the market. Stronger synergy with Wiz: Veriti ingests Wiz's cloud exposure insights, such as vulnerable, unpatched cloud servers or applications, and enables automatic, safe virtual patching of those assets through Check Point gateways (and other vendors' as well), enhancing Check Point's ability to execute on its strategic partnership with Wiz. Veriti ingests Wiz's cloud exposure insights, such as vulnerable, unpatched cloud servers or applications, and enables automatic, safe virtual patching of those assets through Check Point gateways (and other vendors' as well), enhancing Check Point's ability to execute on its strategic partnership with Wiz. Safe, context-aware remediation: Veriti analyzes each customer's environment, including exposures, configurations, and existing protections, to apply the right controls safely, and without operational impact. 'Security teams today suffer from a lack of action: exposures aren't just detected, they're compounding, hiding in the gaps between tools, teams, and timelines,' said Adi Ikan, CEO and co-founder of Veriti. 'We founded Veriti to help organizations not just see risk, but remediate it safely, at scale, and most importantly – without disruption. By joining Check Point, we're accelerating that mission. Together, we'll help organizations reduce their exposure faster through the security tools they already trust.' Following the closure of the transaction, Veriti's capabilities will be integrated into the Check Point Infinity Platform as part of the Threat Exposure and Risk Management offering. Combined with the recently added External Risk Management (ERM) solution, Veriti enhances Check Point's ability to deliver complete risk lifecycle coverage—proactively managing both internal and external exposures across the entire attack surface. The closing of the transaction is subject to the customary closing conditions and is expected to occur by the end of Q2 2025. 0 0
Techday NZ
28-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Check Point to acquire Veriti Cybersecurity for threat exposure
Check Point Software Technologies has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Veriti Cybersecurity, a platform focused on fully automated, pre-emptive threat exposure and mitigation across multi-vendor environments. The move comes as organisations face increasing cyberattacks, particularly driven by artificial intelligence and the growth of hyperconnected IT networks, making it more challenging to manage cyber risk and reduce the attack surface. Nadav Zafrir, Chief Executive Officer at Check Point Software Technologies, said: "The acquisition of Veriti marks a significant step toward realising our hybrid mesh security vision. It strengthens the Infinity Platform's open-garden approach, enabling seamless, multi-vendor remediation across the entire security stack. With Veriti, we're advancing preemptive, prevention-first security – an imperative in today's AI-driven threat landscape." Veriti, established in 2021, introduced the Preemptive Exposure Management (PEM) category, developing technology to actively discover and remediate risks within complex environments where security controls from multiple vendors may be deployed in parallel. The platform continuously analyses logs, threat indicators, and vulnerabilities across the IT ecosystem, providing organisations with real-time visibility. Integrating with more than 70 security vendors, Veriti enables security teams to detect and respond to threats without delay, while seeking to eliminate gaps that might arise from tools working in isolation. Veriti's main capabilities include automated, cross-vendor virtual patching, where it applies protective measures across various third-party tools based on threat data from platforms such as CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Rapid7. This process reduces time to patch from weeks to minutes, aiming to close exposure windows quickly and prevent attacks. Another feature of Veriti is its real-time threat intelligence enforcement, allowing it to verify threat indicators and coordinate the application of protections across firewalls, endpoints, web application firewalls, and cloud platforms amongst different vendors' products. In addition, Veriti is built on a fully API-based architecture, allowing integration into existing IT environments without the need for agents or operational disruption, which is designed to make the adoption process straightforward for organisations using a diverse array of security solutions. Veriti also extends support for partners by ingesting exposure data from cloud security providers such as Wiz. This allows for the automatic remediation of vulnerabilities found in cloud servers or applications, using Check Point or third-party gateways, further aligning with Check Point's strategic relationships. An important aspect of Veriti's approach is safe, context-aware remediation, seeking to apply security measures tailored to each organisation's specific environment, exposures, and existing protections in an effort to avoid operational disruption. Adi Ikan, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Veriti, commented: "Security teams today suffer from a lack of action: exposures aren't just detected, they're compounding, hiding in the gaps between tools, teams, and timelines. We founded Veriti to help organisations not just see risk, but remediate it safely, at scale, and most importantly - without disruption. By joining Check Point, we're accelerating that mission. Together, we'll help organisations reduce their exposure faster through the security tools they already trust." After the acquisition is completed, Veriti's technology will become part of the Check Point Infinity Platform under the Threat Exposure and Risk Management portfolio. It will work alongside Check Point's recently introduced External Risk Management (ERM) solution to manage both external and internal risk across the entire attack surface. The completion of the transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected by the end of the second quarter of 2025.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Check Point to Acquire Veriti to Transform Threat Exposure Management and Reduce Organizations' Cyber Attack Surface
Veriti is the first to introduce preemptive exposure management delivering automated remediation of threat exposure risks and collaborative threat prevention across complex multi-vendor environments REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AI-fueled attacks and hyperconnected IT environments have made threat exposure one of the most urgent cybersecurity challenges facing enterprises today. In response, Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Veriti Cybersecurity, the first fully automated, multi-vendor pre-emptive threat exposure and mitigation platform. 'The acquisition of Veriti marks a significant step toward realizing our hybrid mesh security vision,' said Nadav Zafrir, CEO at Check Point Software Technologies. 'It strengthens the Infinity Platform's open-garden approach, enabling seamless, multi-vendor remediation across the entire security stack. With Veriti, we're advancing preemptive, prevention-first security – an imperative in today's AI-driven threat landscape.' AI has brought cyber security to a tipping point, enabling the launch of attacks at scale. At the same time, enterprises are hyperconnected, with assets spread across clouds, datacenters, and endpoints, vastly expanding their attack surface. Traditional reactive security is too slow. Veriti continuously identifies, prioritizes, and remediates risk across your multi-vendor environment through automated patching and collaborative threat intelligence, all without disrupting business. Founded in 2021, Veriti pioneered the Preemptive Exposure Management (PEM) category—actively discovering and mitigating risks across siloed tools. Veriti continuously monitors logs, threat indicators, and vulnerabilities identified across the environment and propagates protections in real time. With integrations into over 70 vendors, it empowers security teams to detect, understand, and prevent attacks without delay. Core capabilities Veriti brings to the Check Point Infinity Platform: Automated, cross-vendor virtual patching: Veriti instantly applies risk-free, non-disruptive protections across dozens of third-party tools, based on vulnerabilities identified by platforms like CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Rapid7, dramatically reducing patching time from weeks to minutes. Real-time threat intelligence enforcement: Veriti verifies threat indicators from any connected tool and automatically orchestrates protection across firewalls, endpoints, WAFs, and cloud platform, enabling fast, coordinated, multi-vendor threat response. Seamless integration with 70+ security vendors: Built with a fully API-based architecture, Veriti integrates into existing environments without agents or disruption, supporting the broadest security ecosystem in the market. Stronger synergy with Wiz: Veriti ingests Wiz's cloud exposure insights, such as vulnerable, unpatched cloud servers or applications, and enables automatic, safe virtual patching of those assets through Check Point gateways (and other vendors' as well), enhancing Check Point's ability to execute on its strategic partnership with Wiz. Safe, context-aware remediation: Veriti analyzes each customer's environment, including exposures, configurations, and existing protections, to apply the right controls safely, and without operational impact. 'Security teams today suffer from a lack of action: exposures aren't just detected, they're compounding, hiding in the gaps between tools, teams, and timelines,' said Adi Ikan, CEO and co-founder of Veriti. 'We founded Veriti to help organizations not just see risk, but remediate it safely, at scale, and most importantly - without disruption. By joining Check Point, we're accelerating that mission. Together, we'll help organizations reduce their exposure faster through the security tools they already trust.' Following the closure of the transaction, Veriti's capabilities will be integrated into the Check Point Infinity Platform as part of the Threat Exposure and Risk Management offering. Combined with the recently added External Risk Management (ERM) solution, Veriti enhances Check Point's ability to deliver complete risk lifecycle coverage—proactively managing both internal and external exposures across the entire attack surface. The closing of the transaction is subject to the customary closing conditions and is expected to occur by the end of Q2 2025. Follow Check Point via:LinkedIn: X: Facebook: Blog: YouTube: About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. ( is a leading protector of digital trust, utilizing AI-powered cyber security solutions to safeguard over 100,000 organizations globally. Through its Infinity Platform and an open garden ecosystem, Check Point's prevention-first approach delivers industry-leading security efficacy while reducing risk. Employing a hybrid mesh network architecture with SASE at its core, the Infinity Platform unifies the management of on-premises, cloud, and workspace environments to offer flexibility, simplicity and scale for enterprises and service providers. Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements related to our expectations regarding future growth, the expansion of Check Point's industry leadership, the enhancement of shareholder value and the delivery of an industry-leading cyber security platform to customers worldwide. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results or events in the future are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 2, 2024. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to Check Point as of the date hereof, and Check Point disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking state About VeritiVeriti is an AI-driven exposure assessment and remediation platform that continuously identifies vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exploitability across the entire security stack, on-prem and in the cloud. By leveraging compensating controls and layered defense strategies, Veriti ensures that potential and active threats are proactively managed and safely remediated without disrupting business continuity. Founded in 2021 by Adi Ikan and Oren Koren, Veriti is trusted by enterprises worldwide to instantly reduce risk and streamline exposure assessment and remediation for today's hyper-connected organizations. MEDIA CONTACT: INVESTOR CONTACT: Gil Messing Kip E. 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Forbes
16-05-2025
- Forbes
Hacking Disaster Warning—Delete All These Emails On Your PC
You have been warned — do not engage. The FBI warns cybercriminals will 'exploit mass casualty events and disasters' as lures 'to commit fraud,' primarily through soliciting donations for fake charities or other good causes, preying on people's natural instincts to help. Beyond financial theft, these lures include links to steal credentials and to install malware on people's devices. This hacking of disasters and mass casualty events is just the tip of an ugly iceberg. A new investigation by the research team at DomainTools found that when 'viral media events capture global attention… a different group also takes notice: malicious actors looking to capitalize on the public's interest and urgency.' I reported on this threat earlier this year, when Veriti warned 'as California grapples with devastating wildfires,' with entire communities affected, 'those disasters are serving as fertile ground for cybercriminals seeking to exploit chaos and uncertainty. Then as now, it's 'alarming trends in phishing scams linked to the ongoing disasters [that] With the Californian fires still raging, Veriti reported 'in just 72 hours, we identified multiple newly registered domains linked to the California fires.' This isn't rocket science — far from it. Those domains were as simple as can be, the likes of malibu-fire[.] Back then, Veriti said the fires 'underscore the dual tragedy of natural disasters and cyber exploitation. As hackers continue to refine their techniques, awareness and vigilance are critical in preventing against their attacks.' Malicious website will steal your donations Now, DomainTools says 'for almost all events, we identified websites explicitly seeking to profit by being part of a legitimate donation foundation supporting the cause (e.g., for the LA Fire, the Ukraine War, and other tragedies like the Myanmar earthquakes).' As cybercriminals hack disasters in this way, the FBI warns citizens to 'do your own research before you donate to anything [and] confirm the validity of any charitable opportunity.' This includes 'reviewing email headers and domain information to evaluate legitimacy. Emails from official organizations almost never will come from free email services. IP addresses can reveal if the information is originating from overseas.' Unsurprisingly, this is DomainTools's domain — no pun intended. 'The sheer volume of newly observed domains in 2024 was over 106 million,' it says. 'Approximately 289,000 daily creates a significant challenge for security teams.' The bureau warns users to 'be suspicious of online communications claiming to be from individuals affected by the events and seeking immediate financial assistance. Recognize that pressure to "act fast" might be a sign of a scam. [And] do not send payments to unknown individuals or organizations asking for financial assistance.' As LA fires dominated the news cycle, California's Attorney General Rob Bonta warned 'we have people with big hearts who want to help, they want to donate, they want to support the victims... We also see scammers who are taking advantage of that goodness and that generosity and scamming and defrauding those individuals.' This latest report from DomainTools — switching LA for Myanmar and elsewhere — just shows nothing has changed. If you have such emails on your PC, whatever your email platform, delete them as soon as they come in. It's exactly the same advice as with the plague of so-called smishing texts also sweeping from state to state.
