Palo Alto Networks plans to buy Portkey, a company that makes tools to manage and secure AI systems.
Portkey offers a central platform that helps businesses control and protect their AI agents. Its technology already handles large amounts of data every month while keeping performance fast.
As companies move from simple AI tools to more advanced AI agents, security risks are growing. These agents can act like powerful insiders, making decisions and working across different systems.
To solve this, Portkey will become the AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS. It will act as a central system to monitor, manage, and secure all AI activities across an organization.
This will help companies use AI more safely while continuing to innovate quickly.
Lee Klarich, Chief Product & Technology Officer of Palo Alto Networks, “As autonomous agents join the enterprise workforce, they also become a new, unmanaged attack surface. By integrating Portkey into Prisma AIRS, organizations 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 of Portkey, “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 organization to deploy autonomous agents with the confidence that their data and operations are fully protected.”
After the deal is completed, Palo Alto Networks will keep supporting both current and new Portkey customers. Customers will also get better integration with Prisma AIRS, making the overall AI security system more complete.
The deal is expected to close in Palo Alto Networks’ fourth quarter of the 2026 financial year, depending on the usual approvals and conditions.
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