Check Point announced the AI Network Firewall on July 30, 2026, putting prompt- and agent-level inspection inside its firewall software release R82.20 and running it from the gateways customers already operate. The capability is available now. The gap it targets is one enterprise security teams have lived with since generative AI reached the workplace. A conventional firewall can establish that an employee reached an AI service. It cannot establish what went into the session. Prompts, file…