Proofpoint has announced four major innovations designed to secure the agentic workspace, where people and AI agents collaborate side by side. Proofpoint’s new collaboration and data security capabilities address the foundational risks of the agentic workspace by solving four critical challenges: protecting AI assistants from targeted attacks; ensuring the right controls to stop data loss by people and agents; governing the actions of GenAI and AI Agents; and using AI agents themselves to automate collaboration and data security for security professionals.
“The agentic workspace is here and one of the most profound shifts in terms of how work gets done,” said Sumit Dhawan, CEO of Proofpoint. “Protecting the agentic workspace is the next evolution of human-centric security, extending beyond people to safeguard AI agents and the points where they collaborate and share data. Our mission is to ensure our customers can confidently embrace AI, knowing we will protect them and their data against emerging threats.”
Proofpoint’s four innovations are designed to make the agentic workspace safe, securing the layer where people, agents, and data connect.
- Detecting and Preventing AI Exploits Over Email: Enabling People and Agents to Trust Agentic Workspace Collaboration
Attackers are increasingly embedding malicious prompts in email to manipulate AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini. These weaponized messages use prompt injections to provide malicious information to the end user, confuse AI-based defenses, and even exfiltrate sensitive data. Proofpoint’s newly announced technologies, delivered through the Proofpoint Prime Threat Protection solution, block these exploits before they reach inboxes, ensuring people and AI agents can trust every interaction.
