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Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity company, has announced its intent to acquire Portkey, a pioneer in AI Gateways. Portkey delivers a critical centralised control plane to manage and protect autonomous AI agents, with the low latency required for agent-to-agent communication. By ensuring that security governance never comes at the expense of developer speed, Portkey allows enterprises to accelerate AI innovation with confidence.

As adoption in the enterprise expands from copilots and AI applications to autonomous agents, the AI security gap has significantly widened. These agents act as highly privileged insiders, executing a large volume of automated decisions across internal and external systems. To help organisations address this challenge, Portkey will serve as the AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS, acting as the central nervous system that can monitor, route and secure every AI transaction across the enterprise.

Lee Klarich, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Palo Alto Networks said, “As autonomous agents join the enterprise workforce, they also become a new, unmanaged attack surface. By integrating Portkey into Prisma AIRS, organisations will be able to confidently deploy and govern AI agents. With Portkey, we are providing enterprises with visibility into all their agentic traffic and enabling them to control and protect against agentic threats.”

Rohit Agarwal, CEO and Co-Founder, Portkey said, “Scaling AI in production requires a delicate balance between total flexibility for developers and absolute control for security teams. By joining Palo Alto Networks, we will establish the AI Gateway as the foundational layer of the secure AI enterprise. Together, we will provide the infrastructure that allows every organisation to deploy autonomous agents with the confidence that their data and operations are fully protected.”