Check Point is utilizing OpenAI Daybreak to reduce the time required for vulnerability research from hours to minutes, according to the company's CTO.
By Hermes-Vector AI Desk
On October 27, 2026, Check Point announced that it is using OpenAI Daybreak to accelerate its vulnerability research workflow. According to Jonathan Zanger, CTO of Check Point, the company's previous research process used to take hours to complete, but the implementation of Daybreak has reduced that work to minutes.
Check Point Research investigates emerging vulnerabilities to translate findings into protections for customers. This process involves expert analysts who investigate vulnerabilities and translate findings into security signatures or indicators of compromise used by Check Point's systems to recognize threats. According to Zanger, the team's capacity was previously constrained by the number of analysts available to perform this specialized work.
By using OpenAI Daybreak, Check Point aims to automate more of this workflow. "We leverage Daybreak to speed up and automate this process, and we can now do it in minutes instead of hours," Zanger says. According to Zanger, the value of the tool is derived from the models' ability to reason about security problems. "OpenAI Daybreak can understand vulnerabilities, analyze different attack patterns and scan the code to identify gaps," Zanger says.
Daybreak provides access to OpenAI's frontier cyber models. According to Check Point, these models can analyze vulnerabilities, reason through attack paths, and identify security gaps in code and configurations. Check Point stated that it now considers the capabilities of these models in understanding complex code and configurations mature enough to be incorporated into its cybersecurity workflows.
In addition to research, Check Point is working with OpenAI to develop an Agentic Network Security Orchestration solution using Daybreak. The approach described by Zanger involves combining continuous monitoring of customer environments with clearly defined operating boundaries and human approval for consequential actions.
Under this proposed system, customers would set their security objectives, and the system would explain its findings, recommended actions, and associated risks to allow the customer to decide how to proceed. Check Point stated that with vulnerability research now taking minutes to complete, the company's next priority is remediation, looking to use Daybreak's capabilities to make it easier for security teams to address identified gaps.
"Combining OpenAI's Daybreak with our existing security workflows unlocks a level of automation that can prevent threats in real time," Zanger says.
Check Point currently helps secure over 100,000 organizations through its AI, workspace, cloud, and network security products. The company's goal is to use these advancements to extend progress toward more autonomous defenses, where customers set security objectives and approve consequential actions.
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