{"id":213018,"date":"2026-02-12T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/proofpoint-acquires-acuvity-to-tackle-the-security-risks-of-agentic-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:09:00","slug":"proofpoint-acquires-acuvity-to-tackle-the-security-risks-of-agentic-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/proofpoint-acquires-acuvity-to-tackle-the-security-risks-of-agentic-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Proofpoint acquires Acuvity to tackle the security risks of agentic AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/proofpoint-acuvity-deal-agentic-ai-security\/\">Proofpoint acquires Acuvity to tackle the security risks of agentic AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/proofpoint-acuvity-deal-agentic-ai-security\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/proofpoint-acuvity-deal-agentic-ai-security\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-12 19:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proofpoint announced Thursday it has acquired Acuvity, an AI security startup, as the cybersecurity company moves to address security risks stemming from widespread corporate adoption of agentic AI.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition strengthens Proofpoint\u2018s capabilities in monitoring and securing AI-powered systems that are increasingly handling sensitive business functions across enterprises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint\u2019s chief strategy officer, told CyberScoop that the acquisition was beyond a pure \u201ctechnology acquisition,\u201d with Acuvity\u2019s engineering team slated to join the California-based company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Acuvity specializes in visibility and governance for AI applications, including the ability to track how employees and automated systems interact with external AI services and protect custom AI models developed within organizations. The startup\u2019s platform monitors AI usage across multiple deployments, from web browsers to specialized infrastructure including Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and locally installed AI tools.<\/p>\n<p>The deal reflects growing concern among enterprises about security gaps created as organizations deploy agentic AI across departments, like software development, customer support, finance, and legal operations. These systems increasingly access sensitive data and execute tasks previously handled exclusively by humans.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, AI-specific attack vectors such as prompt injection and model manipulation have emerged as potential threats that traditional cybersecurity tools were not designed to address.<\/p>\n<p>Kalember said CISOs are seeing the potential risk combined with agentic AI growth, and are sensing the need to maintain governance without impeding innovation, particularly as the pace of AI adoption has outstripped many companies\u2019 ability to secure these systems effectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has definitely been a pivot from, \u2018I got to be able to stop prompt injection\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/proofpoint-acuvity-deal-agentic-ai-security\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proofpoint acquires Acuvity to tackle the security risks of agentic AI https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/proofpoint-acuvity-deal-agentic-ai-security\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-213018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}