The move enhances Proofpoint’s platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI and agent-driven workflows, addressing the growing security challenges introduced by generative AI technologies.
Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, has announced the acquisition of Acuvity, a pioneer in AI enterprise security and governance. The move enhances Proofpoint’s platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI and agent-driven workflows, addressing the growing security challenges introduced by generative AI technologies.
As organizations increasingly deploy AI copilots, autonomous agents, and model-connected applications across functions such as software development, customer support, finance, and legal, new risks have emerged. These include shadow AI, sensitive data exposure, intellectual property loss, regulatory violations, and AI-specific attacks like prompt injection and model manipulation. Proofpoint aims to mitigate these threats through the expanded capabilities provided by Acuvity.
The acquisition extends Proofpoint’s human- and agent-centric security platform to the “agentic workspace,” where humans and AI agents collaborate on business-critical workflows. Acuvity’s AI-native security tools enable enterprises to adopt generative AI confidently, ensuring innovation does not compromise security, compliance, or trust. Ryan Kalember, Chief Strategy Officer at Proofpoint, emphasized that “securing this new model of work requires understanding human intent, agentic behavior, and risk in real time,” adding that the combined platform uniquely protects the agentic workspace end-to-end.
Acuvity brings detection models and control points designed specifically for the AI era. Its platform provides visibility and enforcement across AI usage in the enterprise—from endpoints and browsers to emerging AI infrastructure, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and locally installed AI tools like OpenClaw and Ollama. By combining these capabilities with AI-powered detection models that understand context and intent, Acuvity allows organizations to govern interactions with external AI services while safeguarding custom AI models and applications developed internally.
With this acquisition, Proofpoint positions itself as the first unified platform to secure every dimension of the agentic workspace. Its integrated portfolio now spans collaboration security, data security and governance, and AI security, providing protection for people, data, and AI within enterprise workflows. Satyam Sinha, co-founder and CEO of Acuvity, highlighted the importance of this approach, noting that “in an AI-accelerated world, intelligence lives in interactions, decisions, and autonomous agents acting on our behalf. Securing that future requires a new approach — one that governs how AI thinks, acts, and learns in real time.”
The addition of Acuvity’s capabilities is expected to strengthen Proofpoint’s leadership with CISOs and CIOs by enabling organizations to adopt AI securely, protecting both human and AI-driven operations while fostering trust and innovation.
