Proofpoint, Inc., a leading company in cybersecurity and compliance, has announced four key innovations aimed at strengthening protection within the agentic workspace, an environment where people and AI agents work collaboratively.
The company’s new capabilities focus on addressing four major challenges: safeguarding AI assistants against targeted attacks, implementing controls to prevent data loss by users and agents, regulating actions of generative AI and autonomous agents, and leveraging AI agents themselves to automate collaboration and information security.
Just as digital transformation led to the digital workspace, the rise of AI is fueling the creation of the agentic workspace. In this space, AI agents are increasingly integrated into workflows, taking on roles such as information analysis, task automation, and direct interaction with people. However, this breakthrough also expands the attack surface, as agents can be deceived, compromised, or misused, facing risks similar to those faced by users themselves.
“The agentic workspace is now a reality and represents one of the most profound changes in how we work,” stated Sumit Dhawan, CEO of Proofpoint. “Protecting it is the next evolution of human-centric security: it goes beyond people to include AI agents and the points where they interact and share data. Our mission is to enable organizations to adopt AI with full confidence, knowing their data and users will be protected against emerging threats.”
With these innovations, Proofpoint aims to secure the connection layer between people, agents, and data, thereby strengthening trust in AI use in professional environments.
Detection and Prevention of AI Exploits via Email: Enabling Trust in Collaboration within the Agentic Workspace
Attackers are increasingly embedding malicious messages in emails to manipulate AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini. These messages use command injections to deliver malicious information to end users, confuse AI-based defenses, and even leak confidential data. Proofpoint’s recently announced technologies, offered through the Proofpoint Prime Threat Protection solution, block these exploits before reaching inboxes, ensuring people and AI agents can trust each interaction.
Proofpoint Data Security Complete and Proofpoint AI Data Governance: Unified Data Security and Governance with AI
Data has become the fastest-growing security risk in the AI era. With Proofpoint Data Security Complete, a new solution from Proofpoint, organizations can locate sensitive data, classify it accurately, control access, and monitor how people interact with it across all channels—from endpoints and email to web and cloud. Unlike other offerings, Proofpoint Data Security Complete offers discovery and classification via customizable autonomous classifiers for more precise, dynamic, and resilient data classification with minimal human intervention. The solution also creates a consolidated data risk map—including data lineage across channels and risk identification related to configuration, access, and exfiltration—and provides one-click solutions. It integrates DSPM, DLP, internal threat management, and data lineage into a single platform.
Proofpoint AI Data Governance enables organizations to discover sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage, enforce predefined policies to prevent data leaks and privacy breaches, and control access through automated workflows for security teams and content owners.
Proofpoint Secure Agent Gateway: Preventing Client-Implemented AI Agents from Data Loss
In the agentic workspace, sensitive information is no longer only managed by people. AI agents, created and deployed by organizations, also access valuable data and conversations that require the same level of protection as their human counterparts. To safeguard them, Proofpoint introduces Proofpoint Secure Agent Gateway, built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which controls how AI agents access data, monitors agent activity, enforces data usage policies, and blocks or censors confidential data before sharing with individuals or other agents. Proofpoint Secure Agent Gateway works with the Proofpoint Data Security Complete offering to provide the industry’s first solution protecting both people’s data and agents’ data.
Proofpoint Satori™ Agents and Proofpoint Satori™ MCP Access: Power Boosts for Security Teams
Proofpoint Satori™ agents operate within Proofpoint solutions, performing tasks such as managing data loss prevention alerts, recommending phishing simulations, and resolving user-reported email threats for companies using the Proofpoint platform. With Proofpoint Satori agents, security teams managing Proofpoint solutions can optimize and extend security operations, eliminate time-consuming repetitive tasks, reduce alert fatigue, and turn data insights into automated actions.
With Proofpoint Satori™ MCP Access, other agents like CrowdStrike Charlotte and Microsoft Copilot can invoke Proofpoint Satori agents to collaborate across platforms, accelerating security operations, automating repetitive tasks, and improving security outcomes. Proofpoint Satori MCP Access leverages the Model Context Protocol to seamlessly integrate Proofpoint with other security solutions. “The rise of the agentic workspace is transforming cybersecurity at its core,” explains Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s Chief Strategy Officer. “By combining collaboration and data security, we are redefining how organizations protect their work in the AI era. Proofpoint is the first company to offer a solution that enables organizations to locate their data, understand what it is, and protect what both people and agents do with it—giving them the confidence to innovate, collaborate, and scale securely with AI integrated into their most critical workflows.”