Establishes the AI Gateway as mission-critical control plane for autonomous agents
Palo Alto Networks has announced its intent to acquire Portkey, a pioneer in AI Gateways.
Portkey delivers a critical centralized control plane to manage and protect autonomous AI agents, already processing trillions of tokens per month with the low latency required for agent-to-agent communication.
By ensuring that security governance never comes at the expense of developer speed, Portkey allows enterprises to accelerate AI innovation with confidence.
Visibility
“With Portkey, we are providing enterprises with visibility into all their agentic traffic and enabling them to control and protect against agentic threats,” assured Lee Klarich, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Palo Alto Networks.
Fragmented security tools have forced a choice between innovation and safety. By establishing Portkey as the AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is eliminating that trade-off. The unified architecture allows organizations to move autonomous workloads into production with built-in security, reliability and management, designed to:
Secure AI Interactions: Following the closure of the transaction, Portkey will be the AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS, inspecting AI traffic and enforcing security and governance policies for prevention at runtime, to identify threats and safeguard data.
Ensure Mission-Critical Reliability: Organizations can achieve 99.99% uptime for autonomous workloads through semantic routing and automated failovers, ensuring peak performance at scale
Global AI Governance: Centralized artifact management allows seamless versioning and secure access control across all AI models, agents, and MCP servers, transforming fragmented AI experiments into a disciplined, global production engine.
“Scaling AI in production requires a delicate balance between total flexibility for developers and absolute control for security teams. By joining Palo Alto Networks, we will establish the AI Gateway as the foundational layer of the secure AI enterprise,” added Rohit Agarwal, CEO and Co-Founder, Portkey.
