Check Point Software Technologies announced the next-generation Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator (MHO) 200, helping neoclouds, telcos, governments and enterprises inspect fast-growing, largely encrypted AI traffic and other communications in the data centre without trading security for speed.
The launch is the next step in Check Point’s mission to redefine network security for the agentic era. Earlier this year, Check Point introduced the AI Network Firewall, bringing AI security directly into the firewall to inspect AI traffic, protect AI applications and govern AI agents. It followed with Agentic Network Security Orchestration, which moves network security operations from intent to automation, and AI Data Centre Security, which includes a collaboration with NVIDIA. Maestro now extends that protection to hyperscale, so organisations can secure AI traffic at the speed and volume AI infrastructure demands.
AI is reshaping the network. For neoclouds and enterprises modernising their data centres, both perimeter and east-west traffic are growing fast, and the need for constant uptime and resilience remains. A significant portion of this traffic is encrypted, and all of it needs inspection. Yet many organisations switch off advanced threat prevention to keep performance acceptable or buy oversized appliances that leave capacity idle to absorb sudden spikes in throughput.
“AI is forcing a rethink of network capacity planning. Training, inference and agentic workloads are driving east-west traffic inside the data centre to levels most security architectures were not designed for, and much of it is encrypted,” said Pete Finalle, Research Manager, Security and Trust at IDC. “Organisations should not have to choose between inspecting that traffic and keeping it moving. Security platforms that can scale threat prevention elastically, without overprovisioning hardware, will be essential for neoclouds, telcos and enterprises building AI infrastructure.”
Maestro is a hyperscale firewall orchestrator built for flexibility. Unlike chassis solutions tied to dedicated hardware, it combines firewalls of different models and generations into one system that grows with demand. You can also split that system into up to eight independent security groups (policy domains), each with its own rules, with no trade-off in advanced threat prevention.
Enterprises modernising their data centres, neoclouds and GPU-as-a-service providers, colocation operators, telcos protecting their backbone and government bodies building sovereign AI infrastructure all need to support higher network throughput, and 400GbE is becoming the new standard for high-end data centres and AI factories. The MHO 200 adds new 400GbE ports and delivers:
- Four times the capacity: total fabric capacity rises to 12.8 Tbps, up from 3.2 Tbps on the MHO 175, in the same compact 1RU form factor
- Four times the threat prevention: up to 4.5 Tbps of threat prevention throughput per Maestro system, up from 1.1 Tbps
- Always-on resilience: sessions stay live through failures, with automatic failover across two sites for 99.999% uptime
Maestro’s single-object management lets teams run an entire multi-firewall system as one, while Agentic Network Security Orchestration automates policy tuning, health monitoring and compliance across it.
Security at AI speed
With the MHO 200, organisations can discover and secure every AI application, large language model, agent and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server directly from the firewall. For private and sovereign AI projects, Check Point’s AI Factory Firewall integrates with NVIDIA BlueField data processing units. Live patching applies security updates on the fly, with no reboots or downtime.
“AI is changing the scale at which networks need to be protected,” Nataly Kremer, Chief Product Officer, Check Point Software Technologies. “We started by bringing AI security into the firewall, then added agentic automation to network operations. Now we are taking that protection to AI scale. Too many organisations are still forced to choose between performance and prevention. With the MHO 200, they can inspect all their traffic at AI speed, grow capacity as demand rises, and keep their operations running through failures.”
Every step in this journey builds on Check Point’s prevention-first security. Check Point ranked first in the Miercom 2026 Hybrid Mesh Network Security Benchmark with 99.8% security effectiveness, the fourth consecutive year it has led the assessment.
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