Solution Brief | AI Policy Optimization | Check Point Software
Solution Brief | AI Policy Optimization
Simplify Zero Trust Policy Optimization
AI Insights and AI Auditor
Check Point AI Insights and AI Auditor give security teams a continuous, AI-assisted way to analyze, validate, and improve security policies. By combining traffic-based recommendations, segmentation validation, and one-click remediation, they help keep policies aligned with real usage, security intent, and governance requirements.
The Challenge: Policy Complexity Creates Security Risk
Security policies change constantly as organizations add applications, users, environments, exceptions, and new security controls. Over time, policies can become too broad, outdated, difficult to tune, or misaligned with the segmentation guidelines set by security leaders. The result: security teams spend more time on cleanup and audits, while security leaders lack a continuous view of whether policies still match intended access, protection, and governance requirements.
Key Areas of Focus:
- Reduce Attack Surface
- Improve Policy Governance
- Eliminate Policy Drift
- Optimize Threat Prevention
AI Insights Use Cases:
- Access Control Policy Insights helps reduce attack surface by identifying where policies allow more access than observed traffic.
- Threat Prevention Policy Insights enables simplified management of the Threat Prevention policy and profiles with actionable insights.
- AI Auditor visualizes current policies, offering a consolidated view of customer-defined segmentation violations.
The Solution: Continuous Policy Optimization and Validation
Context: Over time, rulebases accumulate disabled rules, stale objects, and unused access that no longer reflect actual organization access requirements.
Access Control Policy Insight
Identifies rules that never matched traffic, unused or redundant objects, and disabled rules. Insights can base suggestions on up to 13 months of data.
- Action: Remove unused rules and objects, streamline the rulebase.
- Outcome: A tight and secure access policy with reduced complexity, faster audits, and clearer enforcement logic.
Threat Prevention Insights
Continuously analyzes Threat Prevention configurations, profiles, and traffic telemetry to identify security gaps, policy inefficiencies, and optimization opportunities. Provides actionable recommendations across:
- Misconfiguration
- Policy Optimization
- IPS Profile Tuning
Actions and Outcomes
Administrators can review and apply recommended tuning actions to improve gateway efficiency, reduce alert noise, and strengthen Threat Prevention coverage.
- Outcome: Improved gateway efficiency, reduced operational overhead, and stronger, more consistent coverage.
AI Auditor
- Review violations, approve justified exceptions, and accelerate audit preparation.
- Visualize allowed access relationships between segments for better policy alignment.
- Identify Access Control rules that violate segmentation guidelines or create unintended access paths.
Use Case: Optimize Gateway Performance
Without compromising threat prevention, AI Auditor aids in validating compliance with internal segmentation policies and reduces audit preparation time.
AI Insights and AI Auditor are part of Check Point's AI-powered Network Security Management platform, designed to strengthen Zero Trust enforcement and secure hybrid environments.