Cybersecurity leader Check Point has acquired Lakera, a Zurich and San Francisco–based AI-native security startup, in a $300 million deal. The acquisition positions Check Point to deliver one of the industry’s first full-stack enterprise security platforms purpose-built for the AI era.
Lakera specialises in securing agentic AI systems, large language models (LLMs), and multimodal workflows. Its technology offers real-time runtime protection, continuous red teaming, and adaptive defences — all of which will now be integrated into Check Point’s Infinity Platform.
Scaling AI security across models, agents, and data
Enterprises are rapidly embedding LLMs and autonomous AI agents into their workflows, creating new attack surfaces — from data leakage and prompt injection to model manipulation. Check Point’s acquisition adds a robust layer of defence for AI-driven environments, enhancing its existing GenAI Protect, SaaS and API security, and advanced data loss prevention capabilities.
Lakera’s flagship solutions, Red and Guard, offer pre-deployment posture checks and live runtime enforcement. These tools are designed to block emerging threats with sub-50ms latency and under 0.5% false positive rates — performance metrics that meet the speed and precision needs of enterprise-grade AI operations.
The company’s platform supports over 100 languages and is powered by Gandalf, an adversarial AI network with 80 million+ attack patterns. This enables Lakera to provide constantly evolving protection, backed by a global team that includes 11 PhDs and AI specialists from Google and Meta.
Establishing a global AI security centre of excellence
Upon closing the deal in Q4 2025, Lakera will form the foundation of Check Point’s Global Center of Excellence for AI Security. The centre will lead integration across Check Point’s Infinity Platform and accelerate development of defences against threats specific to AI-enabled enterprises.
The move comes at a time when security and compliance are becoming critical enablers for AI adoption. As organisations scale their use of generative AI and autonomous decision-making systems, end-to-end protection — from inference pipelines to agent collaboration — is no longer optional.
With Lakera’s technology, Check Point aims to offer unified AI security that helps enterprises innovate safely, ensuring resilience even as the AI threat landscape evolves.
