Check Point Expands Unified Workspace Security with Rotate

Check Point Software Technologies has acquired cybersecurity startup Rotate as part of a broader push to deliver unified protection across modern work environments, the company announced.

The acquisition will serve as the foundation for the launch of Check Point's new Workspace Security division, aimed at consolidating protection across identities, email, endpoints, browsers, SaaS applications, and remote access under a unified management framework. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Rotate, founded in 2023 by CEO Ro'ee Margalit and CTO Avidan Barak, developed an AI-powered cybersecurity platform designed to correlate signals across the organizational workspace to detect threats that isolated security tools may miss. The company has raised $8 million from investors, including Treasury, Upwest, G20, Atinc, and Torch, alongside private investors.

According to Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir, the acquisition supports the company's strategy to build an integrated protection layer in response to the rapid rise of AI-driven threats and increasingly fragmented digital workflows.

"AI is embedded everywhere, so that the attacks can originate from everywhere, from anywhere," Zafrir said during the company's earnings conference last week. "We're building an integrated and unified workspace platform that spans across devices, browser, email, SaaS applications, and remote access. We're building both organically and through targeted acquisitions."

Check Point said Rotate's technology will underpin its Workspace Security offering, which it describes as a unified protection framework designed to secure user activity at the edge while enabling centralized, AI-powered management. The goal is to reduce operational complexity while improving visibility across the full digital workspace.

The move comes at a time when enterprises are grappling with tool sprawl, remote and hybrid work environments, and a growing wave of AI-assisted attacks. Rather than targeting traditional infrastructure alone, attackers are increasingly exploiting user identities, email workflows, browser sessions, and SaaS environments. Security vendors have responded by consolidating capabilities into broader platforms designed to correlate signals across multiple layers.

Workspace security has emerged as a key battleground in that shift. Instead of protecting individual perimeters or endpoints in isolation, vendors are focusing on securing the entire user journey, from login to application access to data movement. Check Point's new division reflects that strategy, positioning unified protection as a way to address both operational efficiency and threat detection in a single architecture.

Zafrir also pointed to growth opportunities tied to managed service providers, noting that Rotate's platform was purpose-built to support those environments.

"We identified Rotate as a provider of a comprehensive platform purpose-built for MSPs, who can build momentum in the MSP market and leverage our position as a leading MSP security provider," he said.

The company expects the MSP-related segment to become a high-growth area in 2026 as it consolidates workspace-related security capabilities under the new division.

"Today [the MSP business] has high potential growth for us in 2026," Zafrir said. "We're going to consolidate everything under workspace. The Rotate technology and the folks that are coming with it are going to enable us to actually streamline everything. It's not just email; it's endpoint, it's browser, it's SASE, all put together for the smaller customers working with our partners and the MSPs."

While channel and MSP enablement form part of the expansion strategy, Check Point is positioning Workspace Security primarily as a broader enterprise protection model built for an AI-driven threat landscape.

Rotate's founders said the deal marks a significant step in scaling their platform globally.

"This is a transformational moment for Rotate and for Workspace Security," Margalit and Barak said in a joint statement. "Our goal is to make unified, AI-driven protection accessible to millions of organizations worldwide. We are excited to join Check Point and to work alongside CEO Nadav Zafrir as part of the company's vision for the future of AI protection."

Check Point said the Rotate team will lead the development and expansion of the Workspace Security division as it integrates the platform into its broader enterprise security portfolio.

As cybersecurity providers compete to simplify increasingly complex environments, unified protection models that bring together identity, endpoint, browser, and SaaS visibility under centralized management are becoming a central focus. With the Rotate acquisition, Check Point is signaling that workspace security will play a defining role in its next phase of enterprise growth.