CRO, Check Point Software
Search every verified Itai Greenberg interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Itai Greenberg, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and former Vice President of Product Management at Check Point Software, has been discussing the impact of generative AI on cybersecurity and the company's product strategy. In a June 2025 interview, Greenberg stated that attackers are using AI to create phishing emails and websites at scale with little effort. He described Check Point's approach to AI from three angles: the attacker, protecting AI systems, and using AI for prevention. He said Check Point offers products to control employee use of public large language models (LLMs) and to secure organizations' own GenAI applications. Greenberg also advocated for a "hybrid mesh" security architecture, arguing that customers need a platform that provides prevention and simplicity rather than multiple products and alerts. In earlier appearances, Greenberg discussed Check Point's Secure Service Edge (SSE) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings, emphasizing a hybrid approach that performs inspection on the device or browser to reduce latency and privacy concerns. He commented that funneling all internet traffic to cloud providers for SSL decryption would be costly and create cross-border privacy issues. Greenberg also highlighted Check Point's partnership with Microsoft Azure, stating that Microsoft selected Check Point as the number one security vendor for Azure. He promoted Check Point's Security Log Analytics Service, which uses Azure Data Explorer to aggregate logs from Check Point enforcement points. Additionally, Greenberg warned that organizations should prepare for quantum computing attacks, noting that hackers are already collecting encrypted data for future decryption.
“AI is the number one threats. So AI will make the hackers 10 times, 100 times, 1,000 times better.”
“Customers should start thinking about quantum attacks now not when it becomes available. The reason is because hackers, especially nationwide hackers, are collecting data right now, encrypted data.”
“It's insane — all the world's internet traffic would be funneled to a few cloud providers like AWS and Azure and subjected to SSL decryption; the cost would be enormous and cross‑border privacy laws would create major issues.”
“I think the right approach is a hybrid: leverage compute and context on the device/browser to do as much inspection locally as possible, and only send rare or suspicious items to cloud services — that avoids privacy problems, reduces latency and cuts cost.”
“NSS tested Check Point and other competitors and they found that when it comes to security we do the best job; we really prevent the attack and we're doing it with zero false positives.”
“This is the most cost-effective solution in the market when you think about a gateway solution.”
“For the last two years Microsoft selected Check Point as the number one security vendor for Microsoft Azure.”
“For us, for Check Point, we also find that the cost-effectiveness of this solution is very appealing, which eventually translates to our customers.”
“It doesn't take a genius to understand that your perimeter is dead and your new perimeter is the workload itself, whether it's a service function or a container.”
“Eighty percent of the traffic is SSL based and they don't open the SSL, they only give you URL filtering and they don't really protect you from fifth-generation and sixth-generation cyber attacks, so obviously a cloud service is not the best way to do that.”
“We're here to prevent, not detect — we don't want to generate yet another alert for you.”
“It doesn't take a genius to understand that your perimeter is dead and your new perimeter is the workload itself, whether it's a service function or a container.”
Check out this sharp interview with Check Point’s Itai Greenberg on how GenAI is reshaping cybersecurity, and why Hybrid Mesh Security is the path forward. During the interview, Greenberg unpacks how attackers are weaponizing GenAI — and what businesses must do to fight back.
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