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Cybersecurity giant joins over 130 industry leaders warning of imminent wave of sophisticated AI-enabled threats.
As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the cybersecurity landscape, Check Point Software Technologies has officially thrown its support behind OpenAI’s open letter calling for a global surge in cyber defense—a warning that AI-enabled attacks will become “far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months.
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The initiative, titled “A call for collective action on cyber defense,” has garnered signatures from more than 130 organizations spanning AI developers, cybersecurity firms, cloud providers, financial institutions, and professional services companies.
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Signatories include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, IBM, Oracle, Cloudflare, Check Point, and major financial players such as Citi, Mastercard, and Visa.
AI-Driven Attacks Are No Longer Theoretical
Check Point’s endorsement comes as its own research division documents a decisive shift in how AI is being weaponized. According to Check Point Research’s Annual AI Security Report 2026, AI has crossed from being a development aid to an active attack operator—now building deployment-ready malware and attack suites with limited human direction.
The numbers paint a stark picture: detections of long, malicious prompt-injection payloads rose roughly fivefold between March and May 2026, approaching 1% of observed prompts. Threat actors are increasingly using AI systems to write code, analyze stolen information, and carry out operational tasks during live intrusions—spanning campaigns from China-linked operations to breaches affecting Mexican government agencies.
“AI is reshaping cybersecurity at extraordinary speed. Check Point Research is already uncovering AI-powered attacks in the wild, revealing how threat actors are operating at greater scale and with growing sophistication,” the company stated.
“We Have a Limited Window”—The Industry Unites
The open letter, published on OpenAI’s website on August 27, 2026, carries an urgent warning: “In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable”. The letter warns that critical public services—”from hospitals to water treatment plants to the infrastructure that powers the internet”—are already at risk.
What sets this letter apart from previous AI safety warnings is its detailed, stakeholder-specific action plan. Rather than another general alert, it assigns concrete responsibilities to four distinct groups: every organization, cybersecurity companies and technology partners, governments, and frontier AI labs.
Check Point: From Research to Action
For over three decades, Check Point has focused on preventing cyberattacks and protecting organizations as technology evolves. Now, the company is putting its weight behind collective action, advocating for:
- Expanding access to effective security tools for defenders, including those with limited budgets
- Sharing threat intelligence, practical playbooks, and expertise across the industry
- Helping organizations strengthen their defenses and resilience as they embrace AI transformation
Check Point’s commitment extends beyond rhetoric. The company has been approved as a member of OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program and the Daybreak Cyber Partner Program—a select group of security vendors authorized to embed OpenAI’s frontier cyber models directly into customer-facing security products, workflows, and managed services. This integration allows Check Point to move from using OpenAI models internally to placing them inside tools used by enterprises every day.
A Four-Pronged Call to Action
The open letter outlines a comprehensive framework for collective response:
For Every Organization:Â Make cyber defense a leadership priority. Identify critical systems, assign accountable owners, and deploy AI into approved security workflows to find and prioritize weaknesses. “Strengthen access controls and test recovery from protected backups,” the letter urges, while keeping “people responsible for consequential decisions”.
For Cybersecurity Companies and Partners: Make vulnerability finding, code-scanning, monitoring, expedited remediation, red teaming, and incident-response tools widely accessible to defenders, including those with limited budgets. Share threat information and practical playbooks.
For Governments: Lead and fund coordinated cyber defense efforts at local, national, and international scales. Find and fix the most dangerous weaknesses in systems society depends on—water, utilities, and hospitals. Measure progress by “dangerous attack paths closed, fixes verified, and recovery plans tested”.
For Frontier AI Labs:Â Expand access to cyber models, contribute funding and deployment capacity, share credible threat assessments, and work with governments and security partners on a coordinated response.
OpenAI has already begun acting on its commitments, announcing subsidized access to its latest Daybreak Cyber models for eligible public-sector organizations, nonprofits, open-source maintainers, and critical infrastructure operators.
The Road Ahead
The letter acknowledges that the long-term response will evolve, but the immediate work cannot wait. “Each identified weakness fixed, repair verified, and critical system better protected is progress we can make together,” it states.
Check Point’s participation signals a growing consensus: the cybersecurity industry must move from individual warnings to collective action. As AI capabilities advance worldwide, the letter argues, “no single lab should control the future”—and defenders everywhere need access to effective tools and support.
The clock is ticking. As Check Point puts it: “As these capabilities advance, cyber defense must advance just as quickly”
