Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of Portkey to Secure AI Agents

• 02 Jun 2026
• TM Team
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Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, announced it has closed the acquisition of Portkey, a pioneer in AI Gateways. This acquisition establishes the AI Gateway as a mission-critical control plane for the enterprise, enabling organizations to accelerate AI innovation with confidence.

As organizations move from simple chatbots to autonomous AI agents that take action they face a trust gap. Giving AI the power to execute tasks independently introduces new risks of unauthorized actions, data exposure, and unchecked costs. To bridge this, an AI Gateway acts as the central nervous system for all AI traffic. It delivers the essential capability to monitor, orchestrate, and govern agent interactions, helping ensure that every request is routed to the best model for the job, monitors token usage to help prevent runaway costs, and provides a critical layer of runtime protection to help stop malicious or unintended AI behavior in real-time.

Portkey’s unique architecture is purpose-built to secure AI deployments at scale, with its ability to process trillions of tokens, and its AI Gateway can be implemented with minimal effort. By establishing Portkey as the core AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS, the comprehensive AI security platform, Palo Alto Networks will be able to deliver a solution that natively integrates:

· AI Runtime Security: Serving as the foundational AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS and inspecting all AI traffic at runtime to help detect and stop novel, agent-based threats before they can impact the enterprise.

· Agent Identity Security via Idira^™: Authenticating every agentic interaction to prevent unauthorized tool use and lateral movement, helping ensure all agents are treated as privileged users.

· AI Observability via Chronosphere: Providing deep technical telemetry to help ensure AI workloads are performing reliably at production scale.

Lee Klarich, Chief Product & Technology Officer of Palo Alto Networks, said, "AI is evolving so rapidly that organizations often feel forced to choose between two failing strategies: scrambling to integrate a patchwork of 'point products' to stay current, or falling behind while waiting for legacy platforms to catch up. We're breaking that cycle. Palo Alto Networks is delivering a platform that stays on the cutting edge through a deliberate combination of organic innovation and strategic acquisitions. By making Portkey a critical component of the comprehensive Prisma AIRS platform, we do the heavy lifting of integration so our customers don't have to, enabling them to adopt the latest AI capabilities with speed and security."

Rohit Agarwal, CEO and Co-Founder of Portkey, said, "We joined Palo Alto Networks to bridge the trust gap that prevents AI from reaching its full potential. Our mission is to help enterprises move fearlessly. By combining our gateway with Palo Alto Networks AI security platform, we are helping organizations scale from experimental pilots to core business operations without compromising on safety or reliability."