The deal integrates Portkey’s AI gateway platform into Palo Alto’s security stack to monitor, manage, and protect autonomous AI agents at scale.

Palo Alto Networks announced it will acquire Portkey to expand its capabilities in securing enterprise AI systems as organizations deploy increasingly autonomous agents.

According to the company’s official release, Portkey provides a centralized “AI gateway” control plane that manages and protects autonomous agents, processing trillions of tokens per month with low-latency performance required for agent-to-agent communication. 

Palo Alto Networks is looking to address a growing security gap as enterprises shift from copilots and AI applications to autonomous agentic systems that execute tasks, access data, and make decisions across internal and external environments. Palo Alto Networks said these agents function as “highly privileged insiders,” creating a new and largely unmanaged attack surface. 

Portkey will be integrated into Palo Alto’s Prisma AIRS platform as its AI Gateway, serving as a centralized layer for monitoring, routing, and securing AI-driven activity across the enterprise. 

Lee Klarich, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Palo Alto Networks, said the integration will allow organizations to “confidently deploy and govern AI agents” by providing control and protection against emerging agent-based threats. 

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close by July 31.