Israel Builds AI Security Framework for Healthcare Resilience

Key Points

1. Clalit and Check Point will build centralized safeguards for AI across a healthcare network serving five million patients.
2. Four protection layers will govern AI access, vulnerabilities, digital workspaces and sensitive medical data flows.
3. Persistent wartime cyber pressure makes the partnership consequential for healthcare continuity and digital resilience across Israel.

The latest

Clalit Health Services and Check Point Software Technologies have formed a strategic partnership to secure artificial intelligence across Israel’s largest healthcare network, which serves about five million patients. The effort follows years of regional conflict and increased cyberattack and cyberterrorism attempts against Israeli entities, pushing the provider to treat cyber resilience as permanent healthcare infrastructure. The framework is intended to protect medical information, digital systems and clinical operations as AI expands into diagnosis, research, patient services and administrative work. The partnership aims to support broader adoption rather than slow the introduction of new tools.

Details

• Central control: The partners will jointly develop an AI Gateway positioned between employees, applications and AI models. It will provide centralized visibility into AI use, govern data traffic and enforce security and compliance policies across hospitals, clinics and existing administrative systems, creating one control point for a complex national care network.
• Layered defenses: Workforce AI will restrict transfers of sensitive medical data to unauthorized models and detect risky activity. Exposure management will continuously map vulnerabilities and prioritize those with the greatest operational impact, while workspace protections will cover email, browsers, cloud applications and endpoints against phishing, account takeover, malicious files and data leakage.
• Autonomous access: Clalit plans to use AI agents within predefined workflows, including tools that can retrieve information, generate content and interact with corporate applications or external services. In healthcare, such permissions may extend to records, scheduling, billing and research datasets, making compromised or misconfigured systems a potential route to operational disruption.
• Attack pressure: Check Point Research says global healthcare cyberattacks have increased by more than 30% over two years. Organizations in the sector now face an average exceeding 2,268 attacks each week, placing healthcare third among the world’s most-targeted sectors as Israeli critical institutions operate under heightened cyber pressure.
• Executive position: Clalit chief executive Eytan Wirtheim said AI can improve medicine, diagnosis and patient service, but security and trust are prerequisites. Cyber chief Avi Attia said three years of war showed the threat is “here to stay,” while Check Point’s Adam Ely described cybersecurity as essential business infrastructure.

Between the lines

Israel’s experience links two regional pressures: rapid AI adoption and persistent attacks on critical institutions during conflict. Embedding controls before autonomous tools spread through clinical and administrative systems turns healthcare cybersecurity from an emergency response into a standing resilience function, affecting service continuity, medical privacy and patient trust.

What’s next

The partners will begin with four announced workstreams: Workforce AI, the jointly developed AI Gateway, continuous exposure management and digital-workspace protection. The concrete indicator will be Clalit’s deployment of centralized controls governing employee, application and AI-model access across its network.