Check Point Software has been approved as a member of OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) programme and accepted into Daybreak, OpenAI’s cybersecurity initiative for vetted security organisations, the company announced today.
The move gives the security vendor access to GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber for use in defensive security operations, supporting security teams with threat analysis, incident investigation and real-time detection engineering.
The announcement comes as the threat landscape is increasingly shaped by AI on both sides. Threat actors are using the technology to move faster, craft more convincing attacks and discover vulnerabilities at scale, putting pressure on defenders to match or exceed those capabilities.
Membership to Daybreak goes a step further than TAC alone, providing Check Point with access to OpenAI’s Codex harness, along with direct expert support from OpenAI’s cybersecurity team. Check Point describes the arrangement as a collaborative framework, arguing that dedicated support from the team building the models behind its defensive workflows represents a meaningful operational advantage.
“The quality of the models powering your defences is no longer a technical detail; it is a strategic one,” said Jonathan Zanger, Chief Technology Officer at Check Point Software Technologies. “Trusted Access for Cyber and Daybreak give us access to OpenAI’s most capable models and the expert support to operationalise them, which means faster, more accurate protection for the enterprises we serve.”
The partnership reflects a broader shift in the security industry, where the capability of the AI models underpinning defensive tooling is becoming a competitive differentiator rather than a back-end implementation detail. For enterprise security teams, the practical question is whether AI-assisted defence can keep pace with AI-assisted attack, and vendors are increasingly betting that privileged access to frontier models is part of the answer.
Check Point said the memberships represent foundational investments in how it integrates AI into its security platform, built with the rigour and responsibility that enterprise security demands.
