Proofpoint acquires AI security company Acuvity

"The acquisition is intended to strengthen Proofpoint's platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI- and agent-driven workflows. With the acquisition, Proofpoint is expanding its human- and agent-centric security platform. It should enable organizations to gain complete visibility, governance, and control over what the company calls the agentic workspace. This is the environment where people and AI agents collaborate on business-critical workflows. Acuvity's AI-native security capabilities should help companies confidently adopt generative AI without compromising security, compliance, or confidentiality."

""AI agents are becoming active participants in the enterprise, accessing data, executing tasks and making decisions alongside people," said Ryan Kalember, Chief Strategy Officer at Proofpoint. "ecuring this new model of work requires understanding human intent, agentic behavior and risk in real time." Together, Proofpoint and Acuvity will enable organizations to implement AI tools and agents with the right governance, visibility, and control."

"Acuvity brings control points and detection models specifically built for the AI era. The platform provides complete visibility and enforcement across the entire spectrum of AI use in the organization. From endpoints and web browsers to emerging AI infrastructure, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and locally installed AI tools like OpenClaw and Ollama. Combined with AI-driven detection models that understand context and intent, organizations can determine how use"

Proofpoint acquired Acuvity to strengthen its security platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI- and agent-driven workflows. The integration expands Proofpoint's human- and agent-centric security capabilities to provide complete visibility, governance, and control over the agentic workspace where people and AI agents collaborate on business-critical workflows. Acuvity supplies control points and detection models built for the AI era, covering endpoints, web browsers, MCP servers, and local AI tools like OpenClaw and Ollama. Combined with AI-driven detection that understands context and intent, the platform aims to enable confident adoption of generative AI without compromising security, compliance, or confidentiality.

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