Check Point launches Maestro MHO 200 for AI traffic

Check Point Software Technologies has announced the Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator (MHO) 200, a firewall system designed to inspect rapidly growing AI traffic within data centres. The new system aims to address the challenge where organizations often disable advanced threat prevention to maintain performance levels during high-volume AI training, inference, and agentic workloads.

The MHO 200 increases total fabric capacity to 12.8 Tbps and threat prevention throughput to 4.5 Tbps, representing a significant upgrade from the previous MHO 175 model. Despite this increase in capacity, the device maintains the same 1RU form factor. The system is designed to support 99.999% uptime through automatic failover across two sites and can be divided into up to eight independent policy domains.

This launch follows Check Point’s recent introduction of AI-specific security measures, including the AI Network Firewall and collaborations with NVIDIA to secure AI infrastructure for neoclouds, telecommunications providers, and government entities.