US companies are experiencing about 1,800 attacks every week through attempted incursions that are more sophisticated than in years past. Check Point’s chairman and co-founder Gil Shwed discusses the outlook for cybersecurity in 2025 with Mandeep Singh, senior technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Firewalls, hyperscaler cloud capex, CrowdStrike’s mid-year IT outage, US elections, data security for large language model deployments and potential consolidation are some of the topics that were discussed.