en.Wedoany.com Reported - Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity leader, officially announced on April 30, 2026 in Santa Clara, California, that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire artificial intelligence gateway pioneer startup Portkey. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Palo Alto Networks' fiscal year 2026.

Lee Klarich, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Palo Alto Networks, articulated the core value of the acquisition in a statement. He noted that as autonomous AI agents become the new digital workforce for enterprises, they simultaneously create a completely new and unmanaged attack surface. By integrating Portkey into the Prisma AIRS platform, enterprises will be able to confidently deploy and manage AI agents at scale, gaining complete visibility into all agent traffic, thereby effectively controlling and defending against agent-targeted threats.

The AI gateway provided by Portkey is a critical centralized control plane for managing and securing highly autonomous AI agents. The platform already processes trillions of tokens monthly and meets the ultra-low latency required for agent-to-agent communication. Upon completion of the acquisition, this technology will become the AI gateway for Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS platform, serving as the "central nervous system" for the entire enterprise, responsible for monitoring, routing, and securing every AI transaction. By enforcing AI identity security policies, it implements strict least-privilege controls on every agent interaction, ensuring the security and compliance of all AI workloads.

Rohit Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Portkey, explained the rationale behind joining forces with Palo Alto Networks. He stated that deploying AI at scale in production environments requires a delicate balance between the complete flexibility for developers and the absolute control for security teams. By joining Palo Alto Networks, the two companies will together establish the AI gateway as the foundational layer for secure AI enterprises, providing every enterprise with clear operational and data protection when deploying autonomous agents, leaving them with no further concerns.

After the transaction closes, Portkey's existing customers will continue to receive support and will directly benefit from deep integration with the Prisma AIRS platform, gaining comprehensive AI security protection.

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