Proofpoint has announced the acquisition of Acuvity, which provides tooling for AI security and governance. 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.
In that respect, it comes as no surprise that Proofpoint has decided to take this step. At the end of last year, the company announced several solutions to protect the agentic workspace, including protection against AI exploits and new data governance functionality.
Platform for people, data, and AI
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 users and systems interact with external AI services. But also, how custom AI models and applications within the enterprise are protected.
With Acuvity’s security capabilities, Proofpoint claims to be the first unified platform that fully secures every dimension of the agentic workspace. The acquisition should make the platform more attractive to CISOs and CIOs by providing an integrated portfolio. This includes Collaboration Security to protect people from human-centric threats. In addition, there are Data Security and Governance components to defend sensitive information wherever it resides, and AI Security to govern enterprise AI usage and protect AI models and applications.