Proofpoint recently announced its acquisition of Acuvity, a company focused on AI enterprise security and governance. The acquisition aims to enhance Proofpoint's platform by integrating AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI-driven workflows.
As generative AI reshapes the working landscape, organisations are deploying AI copilots, autonomous agents, and model-connected applications across diverse functions, from software development to finance. While these technologies offer new productivity opportunities, they also introduce risks, including shadow AI, data exposure, intellectual property loss, and emerging AI-specific threats.
Securing AI in the agentic workspace
The acquisition allows Proofpoint to expand its human and agent-centric security capabilities, providing visibility, governance, and control across the agentic workspace, where humans and AI agents collaborate to execute workflows. Acuvity's technology aims to allow enterprises to adopt generative AI while maintaining security, compliance, and trust.
AI agents increasingly participate in data access, task execution, and decision-making. Understanding human intent and agentic behaviour is important for managing real-time risks. The combined capabilities of Proofpoint and Acuvity provide organisations with tools for governance, visibility, and control to manage these risks.
Unified platform for people, data, and AI protection
Acuvity introduces control points and detection models designed for AI use. These capabilities provide visibility and enforcement across AI usage, including endpoints and infrastructure components like MCP servers, and help secure interactions with external AI services and custom AI models within the enterprise.
With Acuvity, Proofpoint's platform can provide coverage across the agentic workspace, offering an integrated portfolio that includes collaboration security, data governance, and AI security. This approach supports the protection of sensitive information while enabling AI adoption.
The updated portfolio helps enterprises address the adoption of AI and its associated challenges, providing tools for managing evolving risks in AI security.
