From hours to minutes: how Check Point speeds up vulnerability research with OpenAI Daybreak

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Here's a story about how AI is being used in security work!

What was announced?

According to OpenAI News, Check Point is using OpenAI Daybreak to accelerate its vulnerability research. Check Point uses Daybreak as part of the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network.

Daybreak provides access to OpenAI's frontier cyber models, which can analyze vulnerabilities, reason through attack paths, and find security gaps in code and configurations.

Why it matters

When a new vulnerability emerges, protecting customers as fast as possible is the job. Check Point Research investigates emerging vulnerabilities and turns the findings into customer protections such as security signatures or indicators of compromise.

Before Daybreak, the team's capacity was limited by how many specialized analysts it had.

What changes

According to CTO Jonathan Zanger, Check Point uses Daybreak to speed up and automate this process, and work that took hours now takes minutes.

Check Point values the models' ability to understand complex code and configurations and to identify how systems could be exposed, and considers it mature enough for its security workflows.

Dive Deep

Check Point is also working with OpenAI on an Agentic Network Security Orchestration solution built on Daybreak. The planned design includes:

• Continuous monitoring of customer environments
• Clearly defined operating boundaries
• Human approval for consequential actions
• Customer-set security objectives, with the system explaining its findings, recommended actions, and associated risks

The next priority is remediation: helping security teams close the gaps they identify.

Wrap-up

• Check Point speeds up vulnerability research with Daybreak
• A process that took hours now takes minutes
• The autonomous network security plan relies on human approval and customer-set objectives
• Remediation support is next

This is a good read for anyone thinking about making security research or SOC work more efficient!