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Proofpoint Unveils First Agentic AI Solution for Human Communications Intelligence

Proofpoint Unveils First Agentic AI Solution for Human Communications Intelligence

Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, announced the launch of the industry’s first agentic AI solution for Human Communications Intelligence (HCI), marking a significant leap forward in how organizations detect, understand, and mitigate conduct and compliance risks in real time. Designed for enterprises in regulated and highly litigious industries, it transforms digital communications governance (DCG) from post-incident compliance to real-time, AI-powered risk reasoning, detection, and prevention, empowering organizations to act on human behaviour before it becomes a compliance, security, or legal event.

 

A recent study of 1,600 global CISOs reveals that more than one-third cite collaboration tools, such as Slack, Teams, or Zoom, as their top concern for introducing organizational risk, surpassing GenAI chatbots, perimeter devices, cloud storage, and even Microsoft 365. Yet for decades, compliance teams have relied on connectors and archives that capture communications but offer little AI-powered intelligence. In today’s environment of escalating insider threats, financial misconduct, and regulatory scrutiny, enterprises need intelligence that goes beyond raw capture and archiving to reason through real-time conversations, detect intent and behaviors, as well as signal risk.

 

Proofpoint’s Digital Communications Governance (DCG) portfolio introduces Human Communications Intelligence, powered by true agentic AI and built to reason, not just react. Unlike existing solutions that use AI to flag keywords or patterns, Proofpoint’s HCI interprets human intent, capturing and contextualizing communications across more than 80 channels in real time. Powered by Proofpoint’s Nuclei technology (acquired by Proofpoint earlier this year), intelligent agents autonomously assess conversations, flag risks as they emerge, and provide transparent reasoning for every action.

 

“Legacy connectors are merely proxies that pass content downstream, offering little intelligence,” said Harry Labana, SVP & GM of Proofpoint’s DCG business. “Proofpoint has reimagined capture by moving beyond simply collecting messages to interpreting and reasoning in real time. This transforms the world’s largest source of behavioral data—human conversations—into actionable intelligence that empowers compliance, legal, and security teams to prevent risk before it escalates.”

 

 

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