Singapore – Proofpoint has announced the acquisition of Acuvity, a company specialising in AI security and governance for enterprises. The transaction is intended to expand Proofpoint’s platform with capabilities designed to provide oversight, policy enforcement, and operational safeguards for AI systems and agent-led processes.
As organisations adopt generative AI tools across functions, including software engineering, customer service, finance and legal operations, new risk exposures have emerged. These include unmonitored use of AI applications, unauthorised disclosure of confidential information, intellectual property leakage, regulatory non-compliance and threats such as prompt injection or manipulation of AI models.
The increasing deployment of AI copilots, autonomous agents and applications connected to LLMs has prompted greater focus on governance and real-time monitoring.
“AI agents are becoming active participants in the enterprise, accessing data, executing tasks and making decisions alongside people. Securing this new model of work requires understanding human intent, agentic behaviour, and risk in real time,” Ryan Kalember, chief strategy officer of Proofpoint, commented.
“By securing humans, defending data and governing AI through a unified platform, Proofpoint is uniquely positioned to protect the agentic workspace end to end—something no other cybersecurity company delivers today.”
With the addition of Acuvity’s technology, Proofpoint aims to extend its security approach to environments where employees and AI agents collaborate on business workflows. The combined offering is designed to deliver broader visibility across AI activity, apply policy controls and mitigate risk as organisations integrate AI into daily operations.
Acuvity’s platform provides monitoring and enforcement across endpoints, browsers and AI infrastructure, including Model Context Protocol servers and locally installed AI tools such as OpenClaw and Ollama. It also incorporates detection systems intended to assess contextual risk and manage how users and internal systems interact with external AI services, while safeguarding in-house AI models and applications.
“AI is fundamentally reshaping how work gets done, and enterprises are overwhelmed by the pace of AI adoption and the complexity of securing it,” Satyam Sinha, co-founder and CEO, Acuvity, stated.
“In an AI-accelerated world, intelligence is no longer confined to applications or infrastructure; it lives in interactions, decisions and autonomous agents acting on our behalf.”
The acquisition is expected to strengthen Proofpoint’s portfolio across collaboration security, data protection and AI oversight, bringing these functions together within a single platform. The combined capabilities are positioned to support enterprises seeking to adopt AI technologies while maintaining compliance, protecting sensitive data and managing emerging threats associated with agent-driven workflows.
