Check Point SASE is designed to help organizations rethink network security in a world where users, apps, and data are everywhere.

It focuses on three major shifts:

• Multi-cloud and SaaS sprawl: 89% of organizations use two or more public cloud services. This often leads to fragmented tools, inconsistent policies, and blind spots across IaaS and SaaS.
• Hybrid work and distributed users: 88% of organizations now support hybrid work. Users need least-privileged access to apps across cloud, SaaS, and data centers, from any location and device.
• AI adoption and new risks: 75% of global knowledge workers are using AI at work. This boosts productivity but also introduces data leakage, compliance, and “shadow AI” risks.

Check Point SASE responds to these pressures by converging network and security into a single, cloud-delivered platform that:

• Provides 10x faster secure internet access for remote users and branches via a hybrid architecture that inspects traffic locally on the device when possible.
• Implements full mesh Zero Trust Access between users, branches, data centers, and clouds, replacing legacy VPNs and point tools.
• Delivers comprehensive SaaS and GenAI visibility, including shadow SaaS and shadow AI discovery, risk scoring, and data loss prevention.
• Unifies SD-WAN and security so branches get optimized connectivity and industry-leading threat prevention in one solution.

All of this is backed by ThreatCloud AI, which aggregates intelligence from millions of sensors and 50 AI engines to update protections in real time. The result is fewer security gaps, less operational friction, and a more consistent user experience across your distributed environment.

Check Point SASE is built around a Zero Trust approach that reimagines how users connect to applications and data, regardless of where they work or what device they use.

Key capabilities include:

• Full Mesh Zero Trust Access (Private Access):
  • Replaces legacy VPNs with a software-defined, full mesh network connecting users, sites, data centers, and clouds.
  • All connections are subject to policy, identity, and device posture checks.
  • Runs over a global private backbone of 80 Points of Presence (PoPs) for low-latency connectivity.
• Identity-centric access control:
  • Integrates with your existing IdPs (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace, AD, SAML providers).
  • Applies least-privileged access based on user role, group, and context for employees, contractors, and partners.
• Device posture validation:
  • Checks OS version, antivirus status, and other posture attributes before and during sessions.
  • Blocks or limits access from compromised or non-compliant devices.
• Agentless access for unmanaged devices:
  • Agentless web access for BYOD, partners, and consultants.
  • Enterprise Browser that creates a secure, isolated workspace on any device, without a persistent agent.
  • Built-in DLP controls (copy-paste, download, print, screen capture), data isolation, and auto-wipe at session end.
  • Agentless RDP, SSH, and VNC with dynamic access control and posture checks.

For mobile users, Check Point SASE extends the same Zero Trust principles to smartphones and tablets through a single lightweight app that combines:

• Secure remote access to corporate resources.
• Mobile Threat Defense with phishing protection, Wi-Fi and DNS security, and malware prevention.

This unified approach helps you standardize access policies across user types and devices, while maintaining a consistent security posture and user experience.

Check Point SASE is designed to reshape how you secure SaaS and GenAI usage while maintaining strong, unified threat prevention across your environment.

1. SaaS Security and Shadow SaaS

• Shadow SaaS discovery: Automatically maps your SaaS ecosystem, including apps, plugins, and APIs, to expose hidden risks.
• Risk remediation: Continuously monitors SaaS configurations, flags misconfigurations and compliance gaps, and provides remediation guidance.
• Application control: Allows or blocks specific SaaS apps based on corporate policy and regulatory requirements.
• Identity anomaly detection: Uses AI to detect data theft, supply chain attacks, and account takeover by analyzing behavior, threat intel, and historical SaaS activity.
• Automated compliance: Helps maintain an audit-ready posture with alerts and fixes for compliance issues and supply chain changes.

2. GenAI Protection and Shadow AI

• Discovery and visibility: Identifies how employees use sanctioned and shadow GenAI tools.
• Risk scoring and categorization: Assesses risk by platform, user session, and use case.
• Prompt-level analysis: Uses AI to discover and classify data within conversational prompts.
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Applies real-time DLP to prevent sensitive data from being shared with GenAI platforms.
• User coaching: Provides in-context guidance when users are about to take risky actions, or blocks them outright.
• Granular policies: Lets you restrict or allow GenAI platforms with fine-grained controls, including copy-paste restrictions.

3. Advanced Threat Prevention Across the Board

• ThreatCloud AI: Central threat intelligence platform using data from millions of sensors and 50 AI engines to update protections in real time.
• High catch rate: Delivers a 99% threat catch rate with near-zero false positives, according to Check Point.
• Zero-phishing protection: Blocks phishing across apps, including zero-day phishing attempts.
• Safe browsing and anti-bot: Prevents access to malicious sites and command-and-control servers.
• Threat emulation and sandboxing: Runs suspicious files in a virtual environment to detect unknown malware.
• Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR): Cleans files of potential threats before delivery.
• Unified DLP engine: Stops sensitive data from being uploaded to unauthorized web or cloud destinations.

Because these capabilities are delivered through a single SASE platform, you gain consistent controls over SaaS, GenAI, and web traffic, while simplifying operations and improving visibility for your security and networking teams.