Turn a single detection into enterprise-wide prevention with Infinity Playblocks.

Discover how to secure the entire organization in real time and effort-free, with over 100 out-of-the-box automations, GenAI-powered customization, and seamless integration across the full security ecosystem.

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Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 3

The Security Challenge .............................................................................................................. 4 A fragmented & siloed environment .............................................................................. 4 Incident response is still manual .................................................................................. 4

Creating & updating workflows is slow .......................................................................... 4 The implications ................................................................................................... 4

What security operations need to stay ahead .............................................................................. 5

How Infinity Playblocks can help ................................................................................................ 6

Collaborative AI-powered threat prevention .................................................................... 6 Empowering Security Teams to stay ahead ..................................................................... 6

The Infinity Playblocks edge ......................................................................................... 8 Key Operational advantages ......................................................................................... 9

The Flow: how it works ............................................................................................... 10 Detection.........................................................................................................10 Triggering .......................................................................................................10

Prevention.......................................................................................................10 Alerting...........................................................................................................10

Infinity Playblocks in action ..................................................................................................... 12 Global enterprise ....................................................................................................... 12

Latin American manufacturing company ...................................................................... 14 North American university .......................................................................................... 17

Government agency .................................................................................................... 20 Pharmaceutical company ........................................................................................... 22

Conclusion ..............................................................................................................................24

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Executive Summary The modern threat landscape is continually evolving. Cyberattacks are increasingly sophisticated, multi-vector, and fast-moving— leaving traditional, manual security processes struggling to keep pace.

With threat actors moving fast, security needs to be faster to stay ahead.

The key to accelerated prevention and response, protection that extends across the security ecosystem in real time, and optimized operational efficiency is security automation with collaborative, AI-powered prevention.

This is exactly what Infinity Playblocks is all about.

In this whitepaper, you’ll learn how Infinity Playblocks turns a single detection into enterprise-wide prevention automatically and in real time, enabling security teams to contain and block attacks across the entire environment—effort-free, so they can stay ahead of today’s advanced threats and improve security posture.

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The Security Challenge Security teams face a surge in complex, multi-vector attacks designed to evade siloed defenses, infiltrate systems, exfiltrate data, and disrupt operations.

Keeping up and staying ahead of threats means overcoming three formidable challenges.

A fragmented and siloed environment The security environment is typically comprised of a patchwork of tools—each designed to protect a specific layer. Enforcement at one point doesn’t automatically extend protection to others.

Incident response is still manual Manual response means delays that attackers can exploit, where persistent threats can find entry points and spread rapidly, often without being detected until it’s too late.

Creating and updating workflows is slow Creating and adjusting incident workflows is time-consuming. Even when automation tools are available, they often require engineering to customize and deploy, slowing down prevention and response.

The implications In this complex and challenging environment, organizations face limited visibility, gaps and delays, overwhelmed security teams, errors, and a slower MTTR.

To stay resilient in the face of today’s security and operational challenges, organizations need a new approach to threat prevention.

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What security operations need to stay ahead To overcome the challenges to real-time, comprehensive, and efficient threat prevention, security teams need a new approach that enables them to:

• Automatically activate prevention and response, based on detections from any and every enforcement point, including network, endpoint, email, SASE, cloud, identity, and others.

• Automatically alert the security teams to high-confidence detections, optimizing focused handling and operational efficiency.

• Extend prevention across the entire enterprise to contain attacks and ensure they don’t reach additional networks, endpoints, users, and systems beyond the initial point of compromise.

• Coordinate prevention among all security solutions to orchestrate actions, maximize defenses, and amplify the impact of the full security estate.

And they need to be able to do all this without the requirement for specialized expertise, reducing operational overhead and accelerating time to prevention and resolution.

This is where Infinity Playblocks comes into play.

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How Infinity Playblocks Can Help Collaborative AI-powered threat prevention Infinity Playblocks is Check Point’s platform for collaborative, AI-powered threat prevention.

When a single enforcement point identifies a potential security threat, it triggers Playblocks to activate automated preventions across the entire security ecosystem and alert security teams, turning individual detections into automated, enterprise-wide responses.

Playblocks automatically coordinates siloed security products for collaborative security across the enterprise. This allows organizations to eliminate the risk of human error, quickly contain attacks, and prevent them from spreading and recurring.

The result is an organization that stays ahead of threats, reduces burden on security teams, and streamlines security operations.

Empowering Security Teams to stay ahead Infinity Playblocks empowers security teams with the capabilities they need to stay ahead of fast-moving threats, including:

Over 100 out-of-the-box playbooks • Automatically activated prevention and response actions such as isolating hosts, initiating kill processes, and alerting security teams

• No unique expertise required • Fast deployment and operational efficiency

Collaborative security automation • Prevention extended across the security ecosystem • Seamless integration with all Check Point and leading third-party security solutions

Fast and easy playbook customization • Customization via intuitive interface or with a natural language GenAI assistant • No unique expertise or engineering skills required

Centralized prevention management • A unified interface to manage and monitor prevention across all security dimensions • Comprehensive oversight and streamlined automations

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Infinity Playblocks Collaborative, AI-powered threat prevention

Over 100 OOB automations

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Improved MTTR with AI-powered automation, reduced manual errors, and improved operational efficiency Prevention extended across the enterprise by breaking security silos, bridging native and third-party solutions

Enhanced posture and resilience by eliminating delays and gaps, driving real-time containment, and preventing recurrance Streamlined security operations by eliminating manual effort and automating time-consuming, error-prone tasks

AI Copilot playbook generation

The Infinity Playblocks edge

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Integration with IT stack management tools, ticketing systems, and more

Flexible deployment as a cloud service

2-minute activation from detection to protection

Infinity Playblocks visibility and control

Key operational advantages

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The Flow: how it works

Detection From any enforcement point: network, endpoint, email, SASE, cloud, identity.

Triggering Infinity Playblocks automation activated, enriching the alert and initiating a collaborative, cross-security solution prevention response

Prevention Preventive actions are executed instantly, blocking the malicious indicator at Check Point and third party enforcement point

Alerting Automated alerts are delivered to the security team with full context regarding the detection, threat, and actions taken

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“Playblocks is an essential element of our company’s

security strategy, automating protection

so rapid no human could match it, 24-7. It’s our

network’s immune system.”

Joe Stern Vice President of IT

Naxion, US

Security Experts agree

“Playblocks provides us with peace of mind – all our security products provide inputs to trigger automatic collaborative prevention and notification of an attack. The combined

power of automation and security collaboration reduces our team’s overhead while increasing

the level of threat prevention.”

Plamen Todorov Senior Information Technology Specialist

MOTORTECH GmbH, Germany

“The security and operational value of Playblocks became clear to us

immediately. The collaborative nature of the platform means that all our security products are working in sync together to provide a level of security which was

previously unattainable.”

Jeff Burgess Manager IT Enterprise

Aviation Technical Services, US

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Infinity Playblocks In Action Global enterprise Extending phishing prevention to office and remote employees.

The attack

A global phishing campaign targeted the organization’s employee.

The automation

Playblocks extended phishing prevention beyond the network at the office—automatically protecting even remote users protected by third-party endpoints.

The outcome

The threat was contained instantly, with protection enforced in every location and at every endpoint.

What about users beyond the perimeter? A global enterprise was targeted by a widespread phishing campaign aimed at compromising employee credentials.

While the organization’s network was well protected by Check Point’s Quantum Gateway, equipped with Zero Phishing and Threat Prevention blades, the security administrator remained concerned about employees working remotely—who relied on third-party endpoint protection and were beyond the reach of the Zero Phishing protection.

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Going beyond the gateway During the campaign, an employee working from the office attempted to access a phishing site. The Zero Phishing blade on the Quantum Gateway identified the high-confidence phishing threat and immediately blocked access, preventing any engagement with the malicious site.

Recognizing the need for enterprise-wide protection, the security administrator leveraged Infinity Playblocks to extend prevention throughout the organization—not just at the gateway.

New automations with the GenAI Copilot Using Playblocks’ intuitive GenAI Copilot, the admin quickly created a new automation which, upon detection of a phishing site, would automatically propagate the prevention to every gateway and connected product, including third-party endpoints.

Immediate comprehensive protection Shortly after, a remote employee named working from home and protected by Microsoft Defender—attempted to access the same phishing page.

This time, however, Playblocks had already extended protection beyond the network perimeter. Defender, now integrated with Playblocks, blocked the attempt immediately.

The security administrator received a centralized notification confirming that protection had been extended to every device, regardless of location or vendor.

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Latin America manufacturing company Preventing web vulnerability exploits

The attack

A malicious IP exploited a web vulnerability to target a Quantum Gateway using known RCE techniques.

The automation

Playblocks triggered an automated response— blocking the IP globally and quarantining the compromised device.

The outcome

The threat was contained instantly and further attempts were blocked in real time, with zero manual effort from the security team.

How it all got started A large manufacturing company in Latin America with over 5,000 users identified suspicious activity originating from a persistent external IP address.

For several months, this IP attempted to communicate with the organization’s infrastructure, generating a combination of dropped and accepted logs across different geographic gateways.

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The intruder’s success Eventually, the attacker exploited a web vulnerability and launched an attempt to compromise one of the organization’s Quantum Gateways.

The detection & trigger The attack was immediately detected and blocked by the IPS blade on the targeted Quantum Gateway. This detection automatically triggered Infinity Playblocks to initiate a coordinated response throughout the manufacturing company’s global infrastructure.

The prevention sequence Playblocks executed a comprehensive prevention sequence that included:

• Instantly blocking the attacker’s IP at every international gateway.

• Proactive, real-time blocking of 12 further attempts by the attacker’s IP to communicate through other gateways.

• This automation-based response neutralized the attacker and contained the threat without requiring any manual action

from the security team.

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Infinity Playblocks prevents web vulnerability exploits

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North American University Preventing lateral movement after endpoint detection Extending phishing prevention to office and remote employees.

The attack

A Trojan detected by Microsoft Defender attempted lateral movement across the university’s network.

The automation

Playblocks automatically blocked the infected device at the gateway, stopping the threat from spreading.

The outcome

Malicious movement was prevented and the integrity of the broader environment was preserved with full reconciliation of the incident.

How it all got started A large manufacturing company in Latin America with over 5,000 users identified suspicious activity originating from a persistent external IP address.

For several months, this IP attempted to communicate with the organization’s infrastructure, generating a combination of dropped and accepted logs across different geographic gateways.

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The endpoint was just the beginning A prominent university in North America experienced an advanced malware intrusion involving a Chinese-origin Trojan.

The threat was initially detected by Microsoft Defender on an infected endpoint. However, the endpoint protection solution was unable to mitigate the threat fully, as it could not locate the malicious file responsible for the compromise—a common limitation in complex malware cases.

Immediate containment Infinity Playblocks was triggered by the high-confidence alert generated by Defender. Within moments, Playblocks automatically initiated a network-level containment action, blocking the infected device at the gateway to prevent lateral movement and further spread throughout the network.

This immediate, automated response provided the security team with the critical time needed to investigate the incident, conduct root cause analysis, and safely clean and restore the compromised device.

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33 new reasons for Playblocks During the investigation, security analysts observed that the infected device was attempting to communicate with 33 other devices in the network—none of which it had previously interacted with.

By isolating the machine at the network level, Playblocks prevented malicious movement, preserved the integrity of the broader environment, and enabled full reconciliation of the incident.

The containment also ensured that the team could understand what had happened and how to strengthen defenses moving forward.

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Government Agency Global, automated containment of a persistent threat

The attack

A persistent external IP probed global gateways over several months before launching a verified attack attempt.

The automation

A single detection triggered Playblocks to automatically enforce prevention at every global gateway in real time.

The outcome

The threat was neutralized organization-wide with no policy changes or manual escalations.

Benign yet persistent A major U.S. government agency operating a highly distributed network infrastructure observed months of intermittent communication attempts from an external IP across various gateways worldwide. While many of these attempts were benign or blocked, the pattern of persistence raised concern.

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Confirmation and prevention Eventually, one of Check Point’s advanced security blades on a Quantum Gateway identified and confirmed the activity as a legitimate attack attempt. The threat was immediately blocked at the point of detection. This single enforcement action automatically triggered Infinity Playblocks to activate a coordinated prevention sequence at all global gateways—including those that had not yet experienced direct communication with the attacker.

Covered on all fronts Playblocks propagated the prevention action in real time, ensuring consistent protection in every location. Despite the attacker’s continued attempts to establish communication through different gateways, every subsequent effort was blocked without manual intervention.

By automating the detection-to-prevention flow, Infinity Playblocks enabled the agency to neutralize a persistent global threat while reducing operational overhead. The agency’s SOC team received real-time notifications with full visibility into the source, scope, and response actions executed.

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Pharmaceutical Company Preventing a Log4j-based web vulnerability exploit

The attack

An attempted Log4j- based remote code execution targeted a web server behind a Quantum Gateway.

The automation

Playblocks blocked the malicious IP across all connected enforcement points, completely automatically.

The outcome

The threat was contained instantly, with protection enforced every device, location, and every type of endpoint.

Access and execution A leading pharmaceutical company based in the United States relies on Check Point Quantum Gateways to secure both its headquarters and distributed branch offices.

During a simulated attack, a threat actor initiated a connectivity test by pinging a web server behind the organization’s Quantum Gateway. Upon confirming access, the attacker launched a remote code execution attempt leveraging the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).

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Detecting and blocking The attack was immediately detected and blocked by the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) blade on the Quantum Gateway. However, the attacker still retained network access, representing a risk of further reconnaissance or lateral movement within the environment.

Infinity Playblocks automatically activated upon detection, triggering a coordinated, cross-environment prevention response. Without requiring policy changes or manual intervention, Playblocks blocked the malicious IP at every connected enforcement point—headquarters and branch offices alike.

A fully synchronized response A detailed alert was instantly sent to the security team via Microsoft Teams, providing full visibility into the attack, the triggering event, and the automated actions taken. The result was comprehensive synchronized response across the organization that neutralized the threat and eliminated the risk of subsequent compromise.

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Conclusion Today’s security teams face relentless pressure to defend against fast-moving, multi-vector attacks in environments that are complex, fragmented, and overloaded with manual processes.

Disconnected tools, reactive workflows, and limited visibility slow down response and leave organizations exposed.

To stay ahead—security operations need to activate prevention and response instantly, across every enforcement point, without the burden of manual coordination or specialized expertise.

Infinity Playblocks delivers exactly that.

As a collaborative, AI-powered threat prevention platform, Playblocks transforms a single detection into real-time, organization-wide protection. It automates the response, orchestrates action across Check Point and third-party security solutions, and ensures every alert is met with immediate, coordinated prevention.

With over 100 out-of-the-box playbooks, intuitive customization through GenAI, seamless integration, and centralized management, Playblocks empowers security teams to respond faster, reduce overhead, and achieve unmatched resilience.

To see Infinity Playblocks in action, book your demo by reaching out to us here.

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