Application Control Update email and AI

[Don_Paterson]

Subscribing to the Application Control Updates is a great way to see the new apps that are added and also to just keep an eye on what's going on out there.

https://appwiki.checkpoint.com/appwikisdb/public.htm <-- You can subscribe here.

This weeks update was interesting because of the large number of new apps added to the database and the fact that they are mostly AI centric.

There were 61 new apps added. 40 of those are AI related, around 66% of the new apps, and that increased the total AI category of apps to 466.

For a mature application database category, nearly 9% growth in a single package is substantial, especially when compared to most legacy categories.

Across all Categories in the Check Point App database AI now ranks 6th:

Category Ranking by Size (Top 15)

Rank	Category	Count
🥇 1	SCADA Protocols	1864
🥈 2	Business / Economy	1068
🥉 3	File Storage and Sharing	969
4	Social Networking	957
5	Computers / Internet	819
6	Artificial Intelligence (AI)	466
7	Network Protocols	438
8	Financial Services	386
9	Web Spider	371
10	Health	355
11	P2P File Sharing	342
12	Instant Messaging	321
13	Web Services Provider	316
14	Games	318
15	Media Sharing	283

Around 63% of all February additions were AI-related.

A major theme is data leaving the org.

Across many AI entries, the risk language is often around the same core issues:

• Data privacy / sensitive data exposure
• Data exfiltration
• Source code leakage
• Autonomous/agent behaviour (tools that can “act” or change things)
• Logging/telemetry risk (LLMOps observability platforms capturing prompts/responses)

Most of these aren’t “chatbots” but instead are AI infrastructure.

The AI apps in this package tend to be mostly “AI ops / builders / connectors”, not end-user chat:

• Foundation model platform: Amazon Bedrock
• Coding/agentic dev tools: CodeWhisperer, Amp, Google Antigravity
• LLMOps / observability: Arize AI, Helicone, LangSmith, Langfuse
• Guardrails / governance / security: Guardrails AI, WitnessAI, Zenity, LLM Gateway
• Workflow automation & orchestration: AirOps, Dynamiq, n8n, Mastra
  
  

Interesting because it implies AI is becoming an application “supply chain”, not just a single app people browse to.

“Open-source + self-hostable” AI tooling.

Several entries are explicitly open-source or commonly self-hosted/locally run:

• Guardrails AI, Langfuse, Rasa, SillyTavern, n8n, Mastra, memU, Screenpipe

This matters operationally because these won’t always be a single well-known SaaS domain; they can appear as:

• Traffic to Git repos / package registries
• Traffic to arbitrary self-hosted endpoints
• Local APIs and internal services (especially Screenpipe’s “localhost API” model)

All categories as of 1st March 2026:

Anonymizer (243)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) (466)
Blogs / Personal Pages (5)
Browser Plugin (54)
Business / Economy (1068)
Check Point Products (13)
Computers / Internet (819)
Download Manager (105)
Education (18)
Email (99)
Entertainment (34)
File Storage and Sharing (969)
Financial Services (386)
Gambling (4)
Games (318)
Google Plus Widgets (38)
Government / Military (2)
Health (355)
IPTV (158)
Instant Messaging (321)
Media Sharing (283)
Media Streams (82)
Network Protocols (438)
Network Utilities (74)
News / Media (15)
Newsgroups / Forums (6)
P2P File Sharing (342)
Personals / Dating (47)
Political / Legal (1)
Real Estate (2)
Remote Administration (160)
Restaurants / Dining / Food (6)
SCADA Protocols (1864)
SMS Tools (0)
Search Engines / Portals (57)
Shopping (21)
Social Networking (957)
Social Plugins (9)
Software Downloads (8)
Software Update (33)
Sports (6)
Spyware / Malicious Sites (23)
Translation (10)
Travel (11)
Vehicles (3)
VoIP (77)
Web Advertisements (25)
Web Browser (31)
Web Conferencing (145)
Web Content Aggregators (112)
Web Services Provider (316)
Web Spider (371)
X (Twitter) Clients (219)

[PhoneBoy]

Considering the number of apps that are now "AI Enabled," I'm not surprised by this.