Palo Alto Networks announces the acquisition of Portkey to help organizations securely and centrally manage autonomous AI agents.
With the acquisition of Portkey, Palo Alto Networks aims to respond to the rapid rise of autonomous AI agents within organizations. More and more companies are deploying AI for various applications, but are also facing new security risks as a result. Portkey provides a centralized platform that allows companies to monitor, govern, and secure their AI agents without compromising development speed or scalability.
AI Gateway as a control point
Following the acquisition, Portkey will function as an AI Gateway within Prisma AIRS. This enables organizations to monitor all AI traffic and apply security and governance policies based on real-time data. By applying AI Identity Security, least-privilege access is enforced, ensuring AI applications remain secure and compliant with applicable regulations.
Portkey’s unified architecture ensures that organizations no longer have to choose between innovation and security. Smart routing and automatic failovers are designed to guarantee 99.99% uptime for autonomous AI workloads. At the same time, the platform provides detailed audit logs and technical insights, allowing organizations to maintain full visibility and control over all AI interactions.
AI governance and cost control
The centralized management of all AI assets should make it easier to manage different versions of models and agents. This allows organizations to transform isolated AI experiments into structured production environments.
Through caching and quotas, companies can avoid unexpected high costs and reduce operational expenses while gaining access to more than 3,000 LLMs and MCP tools via a single interface.
Palo Alto Networks just completed the acquisition of Koi last week, which the company will use to build a new security layer for agentic AI on endpoints.