en.Wedoany.com Reported - Palo Alto Networks has announced the completion of its acquisition of Portkey, a developer of AI gateways. This acquisition elevates the AI gateway into a critical control plane for enterprises, helping organizations accelerate artificial intelligence innovation while ensuring security. As organizations evolve from simple chatbots to AI agents with autonomous operational capabilities, they face the challenge of a trust gap. Empowering AI to independently execute tasks introduces new risks related to unauthorized operations, data exposure, and uncontrolled costs.

To bridge this gap, the AI gateway operates as the central nervous system for all AI traffic, providing capabilities for monitoring, orchestrating, and governing agent interactions. It helps ensure that every request is directed to the model best suited for a specific task, monitors token consumption to control costs, and offers a runtime protection layer to block malicious or unintended AI behavior in real time. Portkey's architecture is designed to secure large-scale AI deployments, and with its ability to process trillions of tokens, its AI gateway can be deployed with minimal effort. By establishing Portkey as the central AI gateway for Prisma AIRS (Palo Alto Networks' comprehensive AI security platform), Palo Alto Networks delivers three key natively integrated capabilities: AI runtime security, which inspects all AI traffic at runtime to detect and block new agent-based threats; agent identity security via Idira, which verifies every agent interaction to prevent unauthorized tool use and lateral movement; and AI observability through Chronosphere, providing deep technical telemetry to help ensure AI workloads operate reliably at production scale.

Lee Klarich, Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Palo Alto Networks, stated: "AI is evolving rapidly, and organizations often face two failing strategies: either integrating fragmented point products or waiting for traditional platforms. We break this cycle through a deliberate combination of organic innovation and strategic acquisitions, delivering a platform that stays ahead. Transforming Portkey into a key component of Prisma AIRS completes the complex integration work, sparing customers from having to do it themselves and enabling them to quickly and securely adopt the latest AI capabilities."

Rohit Agarwal, CEO and Co-founder of Portkey, said: "We joined Palo Alto Networks to bridge the trust gap hindering AI from reaching its potential. Our mission is to help businesses move forward fearlessly. By combining our gateway with Palo Alto Networks' AI security platform, we help organizations scale from experimental pilots to core business operations without compromising security or reliability."

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