Palo Alto Networks has announced its intent to acquire Portkey, a pioneer in AI Gateways. Portkey delivers a 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. The transaction is expected to close in Palo Alto Networks’ fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.
As enterprise adoption expands from AI applications to autonomous agents, the security gap has widened significantly. These agents act as highly privileged insiders, executing large volumes of automated decisions across internal and external systems. Following the close, Portkey will serve as the AI Gateway for Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS platform, acting as the central nervous system to monitor, route, and secure every AI transaction across the enterprise.
The combined platform will enable organizations to secure AI interactions by inspecting traffic and enforcing governance policies at runtime, achieve 99.99% uptime for autonomous workloads through semantic routing and automated failovers, and access centralized management across more than 3,000 LLMs and MCP tools. Existing and new Portkey customers will continue to be supported following close.
KEY QUOTES:
“As autonomous agents join the enterprise workforce, they also become a new, unmanaged attack surface. By integrating Portkey into Prisma AIRS, organizations will be able to confidently deploy and govern AI agents. With Portkey, we are providing enterprises with visibility into all their agentic traffic, and enabling them to control and protect against agentic threats.”
Lee Klarich, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Palo Alto Networks
“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. Together, we will provide the infrastructure that allows every organization to deploy autonomous agents with the confidence that their data and operations are fully protected.”
Rohit Agarwal, CEO and Co-Founder, Portkey
