Check Point executive warns Israel’s rapid AI adoption is raising cyber risks

The Check Point executive stressed the risks created by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, which outpace the security frameworks meant to protect organizations that rely on it.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Israeli companies are being hit with thousands of weekly cyberattacks – a surge highlighted by Check Point’s chief product officer, Nataly Kremer, during a Cyber Week event at Tel Aviv University Thursday.

Her presentation stressed the risks created by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, which outpace the security frameworks meant to protect organizations that rely on it.

Kremer said the shift toward AI-driven development has reshaped both the scale and nature of threats.

She noted that programmers using new “Vibe coding tools” can generate code in natural language and dramatically speed up production processes, but this efficiency carries a cost.

In her words, the industry is “leaping generations ahead in productivity and efficiency, but generations backward in security,” and she warned that the same tools enabling fast development are also creating “new layers of vulnerabilities and weaknesses within the development itself.”

Check Point’s data found that in just one recent month, the company identified about 10 significant security flaws across AI-based tools, including systems such as OpenAI Codex.

Kremer said that once AI models begin taking actions on behalf of users, they effectively become an extension of an organization’s core infrastructure — and a new entry point for attackers if not adequately protected.

She added that companies deploying AI without establishing dedicated safeguards face risks such as tampering with training data, the insertion of hidden capabilities into models, and unintended exposure of information through automated agents.

She said protection must now extend across every layer of AI workflows, from the models themselves to the supply chain and real-time interactions.

As part of its Cyber Week assessment, Check Point examined sector-specific patterns and found that Israeli telecommunications companies are hit by around 4,000 attempted intrusions per organization each week, significantly higher than the global average of 2,703. Transportation and logistics companies in Israel face a similar imbalance, absorbing about 3,017 weekly attacks compared with 1,169 worldwide.

Kremer said the combination of accelerated AI adoption and increasingly aggressive targeting of Israeli industries has created a security environment that demands new tools and constant vigilance.