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Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, has unveiled four major innovations at Proofpoint Protect 2025 in Nashville to secure the agentic workspace where people and AI agents collaborate. These new collaboration and data security capabilities address foundational risks by protecting AI assistants from attacks, preventing data loss by people and agents, governing GenAI and AI agent actions, and automating security with AI agents. As AI transformation expands the attack surface, these solutions enable organizations to embrace AI productivity while mitigating emerging threats.
Attackers are increasingly using malicious prompts in emails to manipulate AI assistants such as Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini. These exploits involve prompt injections that deliver harmful information, evade defenses, and exfiltrate sensitive data. Proofpoint's new technologies, integrated into the Proofpoint Prime Threat Protection solution, detect and block these AI exploits before they reach inboxes. This ensures that both people and AI agents can trust interactions in the agentic workspace, safeguarding collaboration from social engineering and prompt-based threats.
Data risks are escalating in the AI era, making comprehensive protection essential. Proofpoint Data Security Complete offers a unified solution to discover, classify, and monitor sensitive data across endpoints, email, web, and cloud channels. Featuring Autonomous Custom Classifiers for accurate, dynamic classification with minimal human effort, it generates a consolidated data risk map including lineage and exfiltration risks, along with one-click remediations. Complementing this, Proofpoint AI Data Governance discovers sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage, applies policies to prevent exfiltration and privacy issues, and automates workflows for security teams. As Sumit Dhawan, CEO of Proofpoint, stated, “The agentic workspace is here and one of the most profound shifts in terms of how work gets done. Protecting the agentic workspace is the next evolution of human-centric security, extending beyond people to safeguard AI agents and the points where they collaborate and share data. Our mission is to ensure our customers can confidently embrace AI, knowing we will protect them and their data against emerging threats.”
In the agentic workspace, AI agents handle sensitive information similarly to humans, requiring equivalent safeguards. Proofpoint Secure Agent Gateway, built on Model Context Protocol (MCP), controls data access for these agents, monitors activities, enforces usage policies, and redacts sensitive content before sharing. Integrated with Proofpoint Data Security Complete, it provides the industry's first comprehensive solution for protecting data across people and agents, preventing unauthorized disclosures and ensuring compliance in AI-driven workflows.
Proofpoint Satori Agents enhance security operations by handling tasks like data loss prevention alerts, phishing simulations, and threat resolutions within the Proofpoint platform. These agents streamline processes, eliminate repetitive work, reduce alert fatigue, and convert insights into automated actions. Proofpoint Satori MCP Access allows integration with external agents like CrowdStrike Charlotte and Microsoft Copilot, enabling cross-platform collaboration to accelerate operations and improve outcomes. As Ryan Kalember, chief strategy officer at Proofpoint, noted, “The rise of the agentic workspace is reshaping cybersecurity at its core. By uniting collaboration and data security, we are redefining how organizations secure work in the age of AI. Proofpoint is the first to deliver a solution that enables organizations to find where their data is, understand what it is, and protect what both people and agents do with it, giving them the confidence to innovate, collaborate, and scale safely with AI woven into their most critical workflows.”
Proofpoint's innovations position organizations to safely navigate the agentic workspace, balancing AI-driven productivity with robust cybersecurity. By extending human-centric protections to AI agents and data interactions, these solutions foster confident AI adoption while addressing evolving threats in collaboration and compliance.
Proofpoint, Inc. is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity, securing how people, data and AI agents connect across email, cloud and collaboration tools. Proofpoint is a trusted partner to over 80 of the Fortune 100, over 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations in stopping threats, preventing data loss, and building resilience across people and AI workflows. Proofpoint’s collaboration and data security platform helps organizations of all sizes protect and empower their people while embracing AI securely and confidently
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