The Business Value of Check Point Hybrid Mesh Network Security Solutions

Frank Dickson Group Vice President, Security and Trust, IDC

Matthew Marden Research Vice President, Business Value Strategy Practice, IDC

March 2026 Business Value White Paper

Sponsored by Check Point

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Table of Contents

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Table of Contents 2

Business Value Highlights 3

Executive Summary 4

Situation Overview 5

Check Point Overview 6

The Business Value of Check Point 6

Study Demographics 6

Choice and Use of Check Point 7

Business Value Results 9

Security Capabilities and Security Outcome Benefits 12

Security Operations Team Efficiencies 16

Security Solution and Infrastructure Cost Savings 18

Improved Business Performance and Outcomes 19

ROI Analysis 21

Challenges/Opportunities 23

Conclusion 24

Appendix A: Methodology 25

Appendix B: Summary of Financial Benefits 26

Appendix C: Accessible Data Tables 28

About the IDC Analysts 30

Message from the Sponsor 31

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Business Value Highlights

314% three-year ROI

78% faster incident resolution

66% less unplanned downtime

60% fewer impactful events

44% more efficient security operations

35% more network traffic secured

$5.36 million higher revenue per organization per year

6-month payback on investment

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Executive Summary This document describes organizations that have deployed or expanded Check Point Hybrid Mesh Network Security (Check Point) solutions to protect hybrid, distributed IT environments. In doing so, they have improved security effectiveness, centralized policy and management across environments, reduced operational complexity, and achieved measurable gains in risk reduction, productivity, cost efficiency, and financial results.

IDC conducted in-depth interviews with organizations across multiple industry verticals to understand the business that Check Point has delivered. Interviewed organizations use Check Point to secure complex hybrid and multicloud environments, along with branch and perimeter networks and distributed workforces. They reported significant value from Check Point through improved security effectiveness, reduced security risk, increased operational efficiency, and optimized security-related costs. On average, IDC projects that these organizations will realize $5.99 million in annual benefits per organization ($108,900 per 1,000 IT assets secured).

The most significant sources of value include:

• Stronger security posture and threat prevention driven by improved threat detection and prevention across hybrid environments, reducing security incidents and their associated business impact

• Security team efficiencies as a result of greater visibility, policy management, and automation, which reduce manual effort and improve team productivity levels and coverage capacity

• Scalability and flexibility across environments to secure growing traffic volumes, cloud workloads, and distributed users without proportional increases in costs or staff time requirements

• Cost and resource optimization through tool consolidation and automation, enabling organizations to lower security costs while protecting more IT assets

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Situation Overview As organizations continue to sprawl IT estates across on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud environments, complexity is the new norm. However, network security decisions cannot reflect the complexity of the environment because such a reflection would result in an exponential compounding of the resulting security and management tasks. Network security solutions should instead present simplicity, consistency, and control, attributes that collections of point solutions cannot easily provision, regardless of how capable or “best of breed” those individual solutions may or may not be.

Application traffic now routinely traverses on‑premises infrastructure, multiple public clouds, SaaS platforms, and remote users, often within a single business process. This dispersion raises the risk of policy gaps, uneven threat enforcement, and limited end‑to‑end visibility. Buyers are therefore prioritizing unified security platforms that can apply uniform controls across environments while accommodating differences in cloud-native constructs, network topologies, and operational models.

Let’s face it. Point solutions require end-user organizations to stitch together a tapestry of integrations and APIs, the responsibility for which they now own. Regardless of the security professional’s competence, the tapestries of interconnects are brittle, and brittleness scales with complexity. Integrated platforms ameliorate this complexity.

Additionally, several market developments are influencing how buyers evaluate network security strategies. Zero trust principles are moving from conceptual frameworks into operational requirements, driving demand for solutions that enforce least‑privilege access and inspect east–west as well as north–south traffic. At the same time, the growing use of automation, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines is increasing expectations that security controls integrate cleanly into cloud and application workflows without slowing delivery. Finally, the accelerating pace and sophistication of threats, particularly those targeting cloud misconfigurations and inter‑environment blind spots, are pushing organizations to reassess whether fragmented security tooling can scale alongside business and architectural complexity.

In this environment, Hybrid Mesh Network Security platform-based approaches are gaining attention as a way to align security more closely with how modern IT is actually deployed and operated. By enabling centralized policy management; consistent threat prevention; and shared visibility across data centers, clouds, branches, and remote users, these architectures aim to reduce operational friction while strengthening security posture. Check Point solutions are positioned within this broader trend, offering buyers an option designed to support secure connectivity and unified protection across increasingly distributed enterprise environments.

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Check Point Overview Check Point’s Hybrid Mesh Network Security solutions are designed to help organizations secure today’s distributed enterprise environments, spanning data centers, public and private clouds, branch locations, and remote users, through a unified, policy-driven architecture.

The approach emphasizes consistent threat prevention, centralized management, and deployment flexibility, allowing security controls to align with where applications, data, and users reside. For buyers, this model addresses common challenges associated with fragmented tooling, uneven security enforcement, and rising operational complexity in hybrid and multicloud environments.

The Business Value of Check Point

Study Demographics IDC conducted in-depth interviews with eight organizations currently using Check Point solutions. These organizations operate in North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific and represent various industry verticals, including the government, financial services, life sciences, professional services, and wholesale sectors. They reported using Check Point to secure and support a range of hybrid IT environments, including on-premises data centers, multicloud platforms, branch locations, and distributed workforces. Interviewed organizations varied in size and complexity, with the participation of several larger organizations driving an overall enterprise profile with an average employee base of 43,097, annual revenue of $17.47 billion, and 55,039 IT assets to secure. Please see Table 1 (next page) for additional information about study participants.

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Choice and Use of Check Point Interviewed organizations chose Check Point to deliver strong, consistent security across hybrid environments while simplifying management and scaling efficiently. They emphasized the importance of centralized policy management and visibility across on-premises, cloud, branch, and remote environments as enabling reduced complexity and improved operational control. They also cited Check Point’s strong security capabilities, including threat prevention and remediation capabilities, as being critical to maintaining a strong security posture for their business- and mission-critical environments. Several study participants also noted that Check Point provided a more favorable balance of functionality, scalability, and total cost compared with alternative solutions.

They detailed their decisions to use Check Point:

Scalability and capacity expansion (Financial Services, APAC): “We evaluated major vendors and found Check Point ranked highest. Its key advantage was horizontal scalability, which fit our architecture perfectly. We chose the Maestro model for its ability to expand capacity efficiently.”

Table 1 Demographics of Interviewed Organizations

Demographics Average Median

Number of employees 43,097 5,500

Number of IT staff 2,876 300

Number of IT assets secured 55,039 12,422

Annual revenue $17.47B $1.87B

Countries United States (4), France, Israel, Philippines, United Kingdom

Industries Financial Services (3), Government (2), Life Sciences, Professional Services, Wholesale

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

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Layered security for hybrid environments (Financial Services, EMEA): “Our production environment uses Check Point’s Threat Exposure Management feature as part of a layered security framework. It provides continuous threat discovery, exposure prioritization, and remediation guidance across hybrid infrastructure, integrating seamlessly with on-prem and cloud environments.”

Cost effectiveness and existing experience (Professional Services, North America): “When we shifted to a zero trust approach, we considered other solutions, but they were far more expensive than Check Point. One option would have cost at least five times more annually.”

Ease of management and standardization (Government, EMEA): “We use Check Point firewalls with centralized management, Smart-1 Cloud, and the Check Point Portal. They secure our on-premises, branch sites, and cloud environments, and central management simplifies everything.”

Interviewed organizations commonly use Check Point as a core component of their hybrid network and security architectures, securing traffic and workloads across on-premises data centers, branch locations, and cloud environments. Most study participants reported using various Check Point solutions to establish more robust security environments. Several study participants use Check Point Cloud Firewalls to extend policy enforcement into public cloud environments, while others leverage remote access VPN, Check Point SASE, and web application firewall capabilities.

Organizations interviewed for this research reported using various Check Point solutions, including:

• Check Point Smart-1 Security Management

• Check Point Firewall

• Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Firewall

• Check Point Cloud Firewall

• Check Point SASE

• Check Point WAF

• Check Point SD-WAN

• Check Point Playbooks

• Check Point Exposure Management

• Check Point Services

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Table 2 (below) details study participants’ use of Check Point at the time of the interviews, with the extent of use demonstrated by coverage of 37,436 on-premises VMs, as well as 2,454 cloud VMs and almost 40,000 employees on average.

Table 2 Use of Check Point by Interviewed Organizations

Usage Overview Average Median

Number of on-premises servers 2,166 150

Number of on-premises VMs 37,436 450

Number of cloud VMs 2,454 463

Number of TBs 525 106

Number of end users (employees, contractors) 39,859 5,500

Percent of revenue 76% 100%

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

Business Value Results IDC’s research demonstrates that organizations using Check Point solutions realize substantial business value by improving security capabilities and outcomes, gaining operational efficiencies, and reducing the cost and risk associated with securing complex hybrid environments. Across study participants, Check Point serves as a foundational security platform that enables consistent protection for their on-premises infrastructure, cloud environments, branch locations, and distributed users. By centralizing security management, expanding zero trust coverage, and automating routine security tasks, interviewed customers have improved their overall security posture while operating more efficiently and cost effectively.

Interviewed organizations emphasized that the maturity and breadth of Check Point’s security capabilities have played a central role in delivering this value. They cited improved threat detection and prevention, faster remediation of vulnerabilities, and reduced operational risk as important benefits, particularly in environments where downtime or security incidents can have significant financial or business consequences.

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They noted that centralized visibility and policy management have simplified security operations, allowing teams to manage growing environments without proportional increases in staffing.

Interviewed customers detailed their accomplishments with Check Point:

Cloud-based scalability and operational simplicity (Professional Services, North America):

“The most important security operational benefit of Check Point is that it’s 100% cloud based. It is a purely scalable SaaS solution that we don’t have to load balance or worry about in terms of geographic location.”

Maturity of security capabilities (Financial Services/Banking, EMEA): “The benefit of Check Point is the maturity of the product. When we encounter serious vulnerabilities, the ability to remediate them quickly, including developing new code and implementing it rapidly, is very important for us.”

Reduced risk and improved business outcomes (Financial Services, EMEA): “For the business, the most significant benefits of Check Point are reduced risk exposure, regulatory compliance support, improved decision-making, and enhanced client trust.”

Centralized management and stronger security controls (Government, EMEA): “Centralized management and logging are extremely valuable, especially for branch sites. Features like identity awareness add security layers that many solutions lack.”

IDC quantified the financial impact of these benefits achieved with Check Point based on the experiences of the interviewed organizations.

On average, IDC calculates that interviewed organizations will achieve $5.99 million in average annual benefits per organization ($108,900 per 1,000 IT assets secured) in these areas of value (Figure 1, next page):

• IT staff productivity benefits: Centralized management, automation, and improved visibility reduce staff time spent on management, patching, and investigation, enabling teams to not only secure more assets but deliver improved security outcomes. IDC projects average annual benefits in staff efficiencies and productivity gains of $2.71 million per organization ($49,300 per 1,000 IT assets secured).

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• Risk mitigation benefits: Improved threat detection, faster remediation, and expanded zero trust coverage reduce the frequency and impact of security incidents across hybrid environments. IDC calculates average benefits of $2.41 million per organization ($43,800 per 1,000 IT assets secured), driven by reduced security-related costs, fewer operational disruptions, and enhanced compliance capabilities.

• Business productivity benefits: Improved baseline security, less unplanned downtime, and faster incident resolution help business and IT teams maintain productivity in mission-critical operations and help create greater business confidence. IDC projects average annual business productivity benefits of $718,500 per organization ($13,100 per 1,000 IT assets secured) from higher revenue and operational efficiencies.

• Security and infrastructure cost reductions: Check Point enables tool consolidation, reduces vendor sprawl, and ensures more efficient scaling across hybrid environments. IDC estimates average annual security and infrastructure cost reductions of $148,200 per organization ($2,700 per 1,000 IT assets secured) through lower platform and licensing costs.

Figure 1 Average Annual Benefits per Organization

($ per interviewed organization)

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

$2,712,200 � IT staff

productivity benefits

$2,408,200 � Risk mitigation benefits

$718,500 � Business productivity

benefits

$148,200 � Security and

infrastructure cost reductions

$5.99 million

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Security Capabilities and Security Outcome Benefits Interviewed organizations reported that Check Point has enabled improved security outcomes by allowing for centralized policy management and unified visibility across their on-premises, branch, cloud, and remote environments. Having a centralized approach allows for the application of consistent controls across diverse network traffic while maintaining clear visibility into threats, misconfigurations, and policy enforcement. Integrated threat prevention at the network layer, delivered through robust firewall capabilities, improves block rates for malware, phishing, and other attacks before they reach users or applications.

Beyond prevention, interviewed organizations described how Check Point has enhanced security outcomes through improved exposure management, identity-aware enforcement, and automation. With Check Point, study participants leverage prioritized exposure and misconfiguration detection to identify and remediate risk more quickly, reducing the likelihood of high-impact incidents. Identity-aware policies have improved access control by enforcing security decisions based on user or group context rather than network location alone, supporting expanded zero trust initiatives. Automation and orchestration further strengthen results by enabling faster, more consistent responses to threats, reducing reliance on manual intervention and helping organizations contain incidents before they disrupt business operations.

Study participants provided examples of these enhanced security capabilities:

Enhanced security capabilities for core firewalls (Government, EMEA): “Features of Check Point like identity awareness and terminal identity agents add security layers beyond a basic firewall, strengthening our overall security posture.”

Fast remediation when security vulnerabilities appear (Financial Services/Banking, EMEA): “Check Point’s maturity allows fast remediation of serious vulnerabilities, including rapid development and deployment of new code. This capability ensures a strong cybersecurity posture.”

Strong threat detection (Financial Services, EMEA): “Threat detection is one of Check Point’s key features. It scans servers, VMs, and endpoints; identifies vulnerabilities; and integrates Check Point ThreatCloud intelligence with other feeds to detect known malware, phishing campaigns, and more.”

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Fundamentally, study participants credited Check Point with enabling them to provide more robust security coverage across their hybrid environments. One interviewed customer from the Financial Services sector commented: “Check Point is our primary security perimeter, protecting public-facing channels, branches, and ATMs. Its role is critical because if it goes down, all channels are impacted.” Another financial services customer explained: “One of Check Point’s major benefits is enabling zero trust. It now covers about 95% of our network traffic, significantly improving security.” As shown in Figure 2 (below), interviewed organizations linked covering 35% more network traffic to their use of Check Point while also more than doubling (144% higher) the share of their overall environments covered with zero trust security capabilities.

The value of Check Point for study participants becomes even more evident in terms of security outcomes. With Check Point, they can better identify, target, and block potentially malicious actors. One interviewed Life Sciences customer noted: “Our biggest challenge was false positives in that we were getting too many alerts that weren’t actionable. Check Point has helped us reduce the number of false positives. Now our false-positive rate is about half of what it was.” Figure 3 (next page) lays out the substantial impact Check Point has had on security results for study participants, with robust improvements in the share of malware (32% higher), exploit (24% higher), and phishing (16% higher) block rates achieved, thereby greatly limiting the business risk associated with these types of security threats.

Figure 2 Impact on Network Traffic Covered

(Number of TBs per month)

Before/Without Check Point

169 228

With Check Point

35% higher

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

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Figure 3 Impact on Security Block Rates See the figure data in an accessible table format.

Percent block rate:    Before/Without Check Point     With Check Point

Malware block rate Exploit block rate Phishing block rate

66% 77%87% 95% 78% 90%

32% higher

23% higher

15% higher

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

Check Point has also enabled study participants to detect and prevent a far greater share of security threats in time to prevent negative outcomes. An EMEA financial services organization explained: “Threat detection is a core strength of Check Point. It scans servers, VMs, and endpoints, using global intelligence to identify malware and phishing campaigns. Since deployment, detection and prevention rates have increased from about 50% to 80%.” As shown in Figure 4 (next page), study participants reported detecting 24% more threats and preventing 57% more threats from becoming security events with Check Point, underscoring the extent to which Check Point has limited their actual security exposure. These improvements in security outcomes have tangible benefits for study participants, who reported reducing their actual costs of security breaches (e.g., lost revenue, productivity losses, and remediation costs) by an average of 60% with Check Point, saving an average of $1.39 million per organization per year.

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Figure 4 Impact on Threat Detection and Response See the figure data in an accessible table format.

Percent of threats:    Before/Without Check Point     With Check Point

Threat detection rate Threat prevention rate

72% 89% 59% 93%

24% higher

57% higher

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

Study participants linked these improvements in security capabilities and outcomes to more effective compliance capabilities, which further reduce material operational risk. An EMEA financial services customer commented: “Check Point provides audit-ready evidence and helps enforce major compliance frameworks … This makes regulatory audits faster and easier.” On average, study participants cited efficiencies for teams responsible for ensuring compliance of 18% with Check Point and reported that they can prepare for a security audit in 48% less time with Check Point (Table 3, below).

Table 3 Impact on Compliance Activities

Impact

Before/ Without

Check Point With

Check Point Difference Benefit

Equivalent FTEs required 19 15.5 3.5 18%

Equivalent cost of FTEs required per year $1.33M $1.09M $242,200 18%

Time to prepare for compliance audit, weeks 7.4 3.8 3.6 48%

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

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Security Operations Team Efficiencies Interviewed organizations described security operations efficiencies achieved through the use of Check Point as a core benefit. They explained that Check Point has enabled more efficient security operations by centralizing visibility, policy management, and threat data across hybrid environments, reducing the day-to-day burden on their SOC and security teams. As a result, security analysts spend less time correlating alerts, reviewing logs across multiple tools, and manually validating events. Several organizations noted reductions in false positives and faster threat identification, allowing teams to focus on higher-value investigative and remediation activities rather than routine monitoring and triage.

Study participants also linked improvements in security team effectiveness to automation, orchestration, and exposure management capabilities gained with Check Point that reduce reliance on manual intervention. Their security teams leverage automated responses, prioritized remediation guidance, and identity-aware controls to accelerate incident response and enforce security consistently across users and environments. As a result, interviewed organizations secure significantly more IT assets without commensurate staff increases, avoid adding headcount to handle growth, and operate their SOCs more proactively rather than reactively.

Interviewed organizations provided examples of these benefits:

More efficient security team due to functionalities (Financial Services, EMEA): “Our security operations team is about 25%–30% more efficient with Check Point thanks to faster policy configuration, centralized visibility, and a single management portal.”

Expanded team capabilities (Financial Services, EMEA): “Without Check Point, we would need 5–6 additional team members to maintain the same level of effectiveness … It allows us to achieve the same security outcomes with fewer resources thanks to centralized management and automation.”

Importance of patching effectiveness (Government, North America): “The number of firewall patches would change without Check Point because we now have updates every few minutes … Without it, updates would depend on staffing and awareness, so it’s probably ten times more efficient than what we could do with staff.”

Table 4 (next page) underscores the significant value that Check Point drives through security team and other staff efficiencies. As shown, study participants attributed 44% more efficient security teams to their use of Check Point, including substantial 54% efficiencies in patching activities. Additionally, they cited Check Point’s impact in reducing the frequency of security-related problems and support for faster resolution of problems in driving 16% average efficiencies for their helpdesk and incident management teams.

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Table 4 Impact on Security Teams and Helpdesk Teams

Impact

Before/ Without

Check Point With

Check Point Difference Benefit

Security Operations Team

Equivalent FTEs required 20.8 11.7 9.1 44%

Equivalent cost of FTEs required per year $2.08M $1.17M $910,600 44%

Security Operations Team: Patching

Equivalent FTEs required 7.7 3.6 4.1 54%

Equivalent cost of FTEs required per year $770,000 $360,000 $410,000 54%

Helpdesk and Incident Management

Equivalent FTEs required 39.2 33.1 6.1 16%

Equivalent cost of FTEs required per year $3.92M $3.01M $617,900 16%

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

As reflected in Figure 5 (next page), security team efficiencies mean substantial gains in coverage capacity for study participants. On average, they reported that a security operations team member can provide coverage and security for 78% more IT assets with Check Point, a substantial gain of more than 2,000 IT assets per team member.

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Figure 5 Impact on Security Team Coverage

(Number of IT assets per security team FTE)

Before/Without Check Point

2,644 4,699

With Check Point

78% more

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

Security Solution and Infrastructure Cost Savings Interviewed organizations also reported that Check Point has helped them reduce direct security solution and infrastructure management costs by consolidating multiple security functions into a single, centrally managed platform and reducing reliance on point products from multiple vendors. They described retiring or downsizing other firewall, network security, and monitoring tools while maintaining or improving security coverage, lowering licensing, maintenance, and support costs. Several organizations also highlighted more efficient scaling of security capacity, particularly in hybrid and cloud environments, which has allowed them to avoid disruptive upgrades and better align infrastructure spend with actual demand. A professional services firm in North America explained: “Check Point is the most full-featured and cheapest solution out there relative to what we’re getting. We got in at the ground floor of a product that’s head and shoulders above [other solutions] in terms of logging and functionality.”

As shown in Figure 6 (next page), study participants have reduced their overall security-related costs by 25% with Check Point, including 16% lower costs for security solutions and 33% efficiencies for their teams responsible for running their security platforms.

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Figure 6 Impact on Cost of Operations See the figure data in an accessible table format.

Cost per year per organization:   Staff time costs, security platform management     Security licensing costs

$890,200

$907,100

$1,055,900

$1,325,300

$2,381,200 $1,797,300

Before/Without Check Point

With Check Point

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

Improved Business Performance and Outcomes Interviewed organizations also described how Check Point has enabled more efficient and effective business operations by reducing security-related outages and minimizing the operational impact of security events. They cited improved stability and availability resulting from centralized management, consistent policy enforcement, and faster identification and remediation of issues, which helped prevent misconfigurations and security incidents from escalating into service disruptions. When outages or incidents did occur, study participants noted faster resolution times supported by clearer visibility, prioritized remediation guidance, and responsive vendor support, reducing downtime affecting mission- and business-critical systems. An EMEA governmental organization commented on the importance of Check Point to its operational continuity: “When our main data center firewall is down, national operations halt, which affects sales, loans, background checks, and transportation. Check Point is critical to continuity.”

As shown in Table 5 (next page), study participants have substantially reduced the business and operational impact of unplanned downtime with Check Point. On average, they reported resolving unexpected outages 78% faster with Check Point, contributing to their ability to limit productivity losses associated with downtime by 66% on average and revenue losses by 79% on average.

25% lower

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Table 5 Impact on Unplanned Downtime

Impact

Before/ Without

Check Point With

Check Point Difference Benefit

MTTR, hours 1.6 0.4 1.2 78%

Productivity loss, FTEs per organization per year 12.5 4.2 8.3 66%

Value of lost productive time per organization per year $875,000 $294,400 $580,600 66%

Total revenue loss per organization per year $4.07M $0.87M $3.20M 79%

Net revenue loss per organization per year $610,800 $130,300 $480,500 79%

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

Beyond operational resilience, study participants indicated that Check Point has supported improved business performance and, in some cases, higher revenue. Several interviewees linked improved security reliability and confidence to their ability to support digital initiatives, scale online services, and avoid revenue losses associated with downtime or major security incidents. As a result, Check Point helped organizations shift resources away from reactive issue management toward activities that support growth, service delivery, and business outcomes.

Interviewed organizations provided examples of these benefits:

Improved agility and business confidence (Life Sciences, North America): “Check Point has increased our agility and confidence … This has delivered operational efficiencies and contributes to hundreds of thousands in additional annual revenue.”

Reduced manual steps for development (Financial Services, EMEA): “Many development tasks are now automated with Check Point, including threat identification, mitigation, and recommendations, thereby reducing manual processes and lowering manpower needs.”

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Study participants cited several business-focused gains achieved with Check Point. Importantly, they linked reduced development friction to their use of Check Point, with their development teams seeing 6% higher average productivity levels. Improved development capabilities, along with factors such as increased confidence and more robust security postures, have also helped study participants realize business gains, with study participants claiming an annual average of $5.36 million in higher revenue per year (Table 6, below).

ROI Analysis IDC evaluated the financial impact of Check Point solutions using its standard discounted cash flow–based Business Value methodology over a three-year period. Over the three-year analysis period, IDC calculates that interviewed organizations will achieve discounted benefits of $14.18 million per organization ($257,700 per 1,000 IT assets), compared with average discounted investment costs of $3.43 million per organization ($62,200 per 1,000 IT assets). These levels of benefits and investment costs will result in an average three-year ROI of 314%, reflecting the significant benefits realized relative to the investment required. Interviewed organizations will reach a payback period of approximately six months from their deployment of Check Point, indicating rapid value realization driven by early gains in security risk reduction, operational efficiency, and productivity improvements (Table 7, next page).

Table 6 Business Impact: Higher Revenue

Revenue Per Organization Per 1,000 IT Assets

Higher revenue per year $5.36M $97,300

Margin assumption 15% 15%

Higher net revenue per year $803,300 $14,600

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

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Table 7 ROI Analysis

3-Year ROI Analysis Per Organization Per 1,000 IT

Assets Secured Per 100 Employees

Discounted benefits $14.18M $257,700 $32,900

Discounted investment costs $3.43M $62,200 $7,900

Net present value $10.76M $195,500 $25,000

Return on investment 314% 314% 314%

Payback 6 months 6 months 6 months

Discount factor 12% 12% 12%

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

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Challenges/Opportunities As enterprises continue to operate across increasingly hybrid and distributed environments, buyers face growing pressure to balance strong security efficacy with operational simplicity and cost predictability. Hybrid Mesh Network Security architectures address this tension by enabling the consistent enforcement of policies and threat prevention across on‑premises infrastructure, multicloud environments, branch locations, and remote users. Check Point’s solutions align with this architectural direction by combining network, cloud, application, and user security into a unified framework supported by centralized management and AI‑driven capabilities. For buyers, the primary opportunity lies in consolidating security controls, improving visibility across environments, and reducing operational overhead without sacrificing performance or resilience.

At the same time, adoption of this approach presents practical considerations. While the breadth of the Check Point Hybrid Mesh portfolio enables coverage across many use cases, organizations must be prepared to rationalize existing tools and adjust operational processes to fully realize value from a consolidated platform. Buyers with deeply entrenched point solutions may experience transitional complexity during migration or integration, particularly when aligning policy models across legacy and cloud‑native environments. In addition, advanced capabilities such as Threat Exposure Management, AI‑assisted operations, and SASE‑based access may require process changes and skills development to move beyond basic deployment and achieve more proactive, automated security operations.

From a competitive standpoint, buyers evaluating Check Point Solutions should consider several challenges. First, the market remains highly competitive, with alternative vendors emphasizing cloud‑native or SASE‑first architectures that may appeal to organizations prioritizing rapid cloud adoption over hybrid consistency. Second, the perceived breadth of the Check Point portfolio can introduce evaluation complexity, requiring buyers to clearly define priorities and deployment scope to avoid over‑architecting. Finally, while unified platforms can improve long‑term efficiency, upfront investment decisions, particularly around platform subscriptions and migration planning, require careful justification to align with budget cycles and near‑term business outcomes. For buyers, the opportunity is strongest when Hybrid Mesh security is approached as a phased architectural transition rather than a single‑step replacement, aligning technical capabilities with organizational readiness and operating maturity.

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Conclusion As enterprises continue to expand across hybrid and multicloud environments, security teams are under increasing pressure to deliver consistent protection, centralized policy control, and strong threat prevention across highly distributed infrastructures. Application traffic routinely spans on‑premises data centers, multiple public clouds, SaaS platforms, branch offices, and remote users, raising the risk of policy gaps, inconsistent enforcement, and limited end‑to‑end visibility. At the same time, the operationalization of zero trust, the growing use of automation and DevOps pipelines, and the accelerating pace of AI‑enabled threats are forcing organizations to reassess whether fragmented security architectures can scale effectively without driving up cost and complexity.

To help address these challenges, Check Point offers its Hybrid Mesh Network Security solutions to deliver consistent, policy‑driven security and threat prevention across networks, clouds, applications, and users from a unified architecture. IDC research shows that organizations using Check Point’s approach benefit from stronger security efficacy, centralized management, and improved operational efficiency, including higher threat detection and prevention rates, fewer impactful security incidents, and reduced compliance and audit effort. Quantitatively, interviewed organizations realized average annual benefits of $5.99 million per organization, driven by reductions in security event costs, improved IT and security staff productivity, and lower infrastructure and platform management costs, alongside qualitative gains, such as improved risk posture, faster remediation, and greater confidence in supporting distributed operations.

Overall, IDC’s analysis indicates that organizations achieved an average 314% three‑year ROI, generating approximately $5.36 million in higher revenue per organization per year, with a six‑month payback period. •

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Appendix A: Methodology IDC’s standard Business Value methodology was utilized for this white paper. This methodology is based on gathering data from organizations that are currently using Check Point as the foundation for the model. Based on interviews with these study participants, IDC has calculated the benefits and costs to these organizations related to their use of Check Point. IDC conducted its quantitative analysis for this study by gathering benefit information during the interviews using a before-and-after assessment of the impact of using Check Point. In this study, the benefits included security team efficiencies, security-related cost savings, and reduced risk-related costs.

Other IDC Business Value assumptions are summarized as follows:

• Time values are multiplied by burdened salary (salary + 28% for benefits and overhead) to quantify efficiency and manager productivity savings. For the purposes of this analysis, based on the geographic locations of the interviewed organizations, IDC has used assumptions of an average fully loaded $100,000 per year salary for IT staff members and an average fully loaded salary of $70,000 for non-IT staff members. IDC assumes that employees work 1,880 hours per year (47 weeks x 40 hours).

Note: All numbers in this document may not be exact due to rounding.

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Appendix B: Summary of Financial Benefits Table 8 (below) provides a more detailed look at the financial benefits that IDC expects study participants to achieve through their use of Check Point. On average, IDC calculates that interviewed organizations will realize average annual benefits of $5.99 million per organization per year ($108,900 per 1,000 IT assets secured/$13,900 per 100 employees).

Table 8 Summary of Financial Benefits

Category of Value

Average Quantitative

Benefit 15%

Margin

Calculated Average Annual

Value per Organization

Calculated Average

Annual Value per 1,000 IT Assets Secured

Calculated Average

Annual Value per 100

Employees

Annual licensing cost savings

16% lower costs, saving

$165,700 per year

No $148,200 $2,700 $300

Platform management efficiencies

33% efficiency worth

4.5 FTEs, $100,000

salary

No $398,200 $7,200 $900

Security team efficiencies

44% efficiency worth

9.1 FTES, $100,000

salary

No $814,500 $14,800 $1,900

Helpdesk team efficiencies

16% efficiency worth

6.2 FTEs, $100,000

salary

No $552,700 $10,000 $1,300

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Category of Value

Average Quantitative

Benefit 15%

Margin

Calculated Average Annual

Value per Organization

Calculated Average

Annual Value per 1,000 IT Assets Secured

Calculated Average

Annual Value per 100

Employees

Development team productivity gains

6% higher productivity

worth 10.6 FTEs, $100,000

salary

No $946,900 $17,200 $2,200

Higher productivity, unplanned downtime

66% less unplanned downtime

worth 8.3 FTEs,

$70,000 salary

No $519,400 $9,400 $1,200

Higher revenue, unplanned downtime

79% less lost revenue worth

$3.20M per organization

Yes $429,800 $7,800 $1,000

Security event cost avoidances

60% fewer impactful security

events, saving $1.39M per

year

No $1.24M $22,600 $2,900

Compliance team efficiencies

18% efficiency worth

3.5 FTEs, $70,000 salary

No $216,600 $3,900 $500

Higher net revenue, enablement

$5.36M higher revenue per organization

per year

Yes $718,500 $13,100 $1,700

Total average annual benefits

$5.99M per organization per year/$108,900 per 1,000 IT assets secured/$13,900 per 100 employees

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

Table 8 continued from previous page

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Appendix C: Accessible Data Tables This appendix provides an accessible version of the data for any complex figures in this document. Click “Return to figure” to get back to the original figure.

Figure 4 Impact on Threat Detection and Response

Threat rate Threat Detection Rate Threat Prevention Rate

Before/Without Check Point 72% 59%

With Check Point 89% 93%

Difference 24% higher 57% higher

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

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Figure 3 accessible data Impact on Security Block Rates

Block Type Rate Malware

Block Rate Exploit

Block Rate Phishing

Block Rate

Before/Without Check Point 66% 77% 78%

With Check Point 87% 95% 90%

Difference 32% higher 23% higher 15% higher

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

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Figure 6 Impact on Cost of Operations

Operations Before/Without

Check Point With Check Point

Staff time costs, security platform management $1,325,300 $907,100

Security licensing costs $1,055,900 $890,200

Total $2,381,200 $1,797,300

Difference 25% lower

n = 8; Source: IDC Business Value In-Depth Interviews, January 2026

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About the IDC Analysts

Frank Dickson Group Vice President, Security and Trust, IDC

Frank Dickson is the group vice president for IDC’s Security and Trust research practice. In this role, he leads the team that delivers compelling research in the areas of AI security; cybersecurity services; information and data security; endpoint security; trust; governance, risk, and compliance; identity and digital trust; network security; privacy and legal tech; and application security and fraud. Topically, he provides thought leadership and guidance for clients on a wide range of security topics, including ransomware and emerging products designed to protect transforming architectures and business models.

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Matthew Marden is responsible for carrying out custom business value research engagements and consulting projects for clients in several technology areas, focusing on determining the return on investment of their use of enterprise technologies. Marden’s research often analyzes how organizations are leveraging investment in digital technology solutions and initiatives to create value through efficiencies and business enablement.

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Its mission is to secure enterprises’ AI transformation. With a prevention-first approach and an open ecosystem architecture, Check Point helps organizations block advanced threats, prioritize exposures, and automate security operations across complex digital environments. The unified architecture simplifies protection across hybrid networks, multi-cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems. Structured around four strategic pillars, Hybrid Mesh Network Security, Workspace Security, Exposure Management, and AI Security, Check Point delivers consistent protection and visibility across multivendor environments, enabling organizations to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation without increasing complexity.

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