Secure AI-Scale Traffic with the Maestro MHO 200

AI is pushing data center traffic to levels most security architectures were never built for, and much of it is encrypted.

Today we’re introducing the Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator (MHO) 200, our most powerful Maestro orchestrator yet. With new 400GbE ports and four times the capacity, it lets organizations secure AI traffic without slowing it down.

Why Is AI Traffic So Hard to Secure in the Data Center?

Training, inference, and agentic workloads are driving up both perimeter and east-west traffic fast. A significant share of that traffic is encrypted, and all of it needs inspection, while AI services must stay online around the clock.

And it’s not just about AI. The same data center runs production environments and critical internal applications, and they need the same level of protection.

That leaves many organizations with a hard choice: switch off advanced threat prevention to keep performance up, or overbuy appliances that sit idle until the next spike.

What Is a Hyperscale Firewall Orchestrator?

A hyperscale firewall orchestrator combines multiple firewalls into a single system that organizations manage and scale as one. It:

• Scales and grows with the business
• Delivers cloud-level agility on-premises
• Maximizes hardware utilization for a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Enables failover and recovery to backup sites, for always-on resilience that keeps sessions live through failures
• Lets organizations place workloads anywhere, including multi-site and hybrid cloud environments

Check Point Maestro is the only hyperscale firewall orchestrator in the industry, and it delivers all of this with no trade-off in advanced threat prevention.

What’s New in the Check Point Maestro MHO 200?

The MHO 200 is our next-generation Maestro orchestrator. Compared with the MHO 175, it delivers:

• Four times the capacity: 12.8 Tbps of total fabric capacity, up from 3.2 Tbps, 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
• Faster restore and debugging: greater disk capacity for snapshots and logs, up from 120 GB to 512 GB
• Better remote management: troubleshoot and recover remotely with Lights-Out Management (LOM), so teams spend less time on site

Single-object management lets teams run the entire multi-firewall system as one, and live patching applies security updates with no reboots or downtime.

How Can Organizations Secure AI Traffic at the Network Firewall?

With the MHO 200, organizations can discover and secure every AI application, large language model (LLM), agent, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server directly from the firewall. This isn’t limited to Maestro: organizations can do the same from every Check Point firewall, so AI security follows their traffic wherever it runs.

Who Needs Hyperscale AI Security?

The MHO 200 is built for large organizations where 400GbE is becoming the new standard for high-end data centers and AI factories:

• Enterprises modernizing their data centers to develop private AI can secure their AI servers, models, and production applications, and add capacity without disruption.
• Neoclouds, which are GPU-as-a-service providers, can inspect high-throughput training and inference traffic and scale protection as their business grows.
• Government bodies building sovereign AI infrastructure can protect sovereign AI models and data inside their own infrastructure, among others through Check Point AI Factory Firewall running on with NVIDIA BlueField data processing units (DPUs).
• Telcos and colocation operators can protect backbone and multi-tenant traffic at 400GbE speeds, with sessions that stay live through failures.

How Can Organizations Transform Network Security for the Agentic Era?

With the MHO 200, organizations can bring AI security, automation, and hyperscale performance together. The AI Network Firewall secures AI traffic, applications, and agents at the firewall. Agentic Network Security Orchestration automates policy tuning, health monitoring, and compliance across the network. AI Data Center Security, which includes a collaboration with NVIDIA, extends protection into AI infrastructure. The MHO 200 now gives all of it the scale AI demands.

Every step builds on our prevention-first approach. Check Point was named a Recommended vendor in the NSS Labs 2025 Enterprise Firewall Comparative Report, with a 99.91% exploit block rate and the highest overall security effectiveness of any vendor tested, at 99.59%.

The Maestro MHO 200 is available now in all regions. Learn more about hyperscale security here.