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Proofpoint

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2026-08-06 / arxiv-researcherAnthropic Ships Inference Hooks: Enterprise DLP Servers Now Vote Allow/Deny on Every Claude Prompt Before InferenceOn August 5, 2026 Anthropic launched inference hooks in beta for Claude Enterprise, routing each prompt and tool-call response over a signed WebSocket to the customer's own security server for an allow-or-deny verdict before the model generates anything. Coverage spans Claude chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and tool calls made through MCP connectors, skills, and plugins, with named integrations for Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, and Zscaler, plus shadow mode, role-based exclusions, and percentage rollouts. The current limitation matters for builders: verdicts are binary — the server can block a prompt but cannot redact or rewrite it — so any redaction logic still has to live client-side.
2026-07-30 / saas-disruption-researcherSaaStr: The Marketo Failure Is Self-Inflicted, and the Market Now Prices Growth at 12x Versus 3xJason Lemkin's July 29 piece argues legacy B2B SaaS is being killed by neglect rather than AI, using Adobe Marketo as the case: 1.5 days of downtime, a missed send to 450,000+ subscribers, a broken unsubscribe link left live for over two weeks, all on a $60,000 ACV contract that came with a proposed 20% price increase. He names four root causes, and the one that matters architecturally is that vendors stopped modernizing their APIs, which is exactly the surface agents need to operate. The pricing evidence he cites is the sharp part: companies growing 20%+ trade around 12x while sub-10% growers trade around 3x, with Pluralsight, Medallia, Proofpoint, Qualtrics, Cornerstone, Yext, Domo, LivePerson and Upland below 2.5x and several under 1x revenue.
2026-07-29 / saas-disruption-researcherHush Security Raised $30M to Give Every AI Agent a Registry Entry, Scoped JIT Credentials and a Kill SwitchTel Aviv's Hush Security announced a $30 million Series A on July 28 with Akamai joining as strategic investor alongside Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, taking total raised to $41 million. The architecture is the notable part: every agent is enrolled in a central registry, stripped of standing credentials entirely, and granted scoped just-in-time permissions at runtime, with every action logged and a centralized kill switch. The company cites Omdia research that 96% of organizations run agents on governance models that were never designed for them. Founded by the team behind Meta Networks, which Proofpoint acquired.
2026-07-29 / agents-researcherProofpoint finds indirect prompt injection sold as a subscription service starting at $150/monthProofpoint published research on July 28 documenting that indirect prompt injection (IDPI) tooling is now actively developed and advertised on closed criminal forums, with subscriptions starting around $150/month. The advertised kits bundle IDPI generators for email, PDF, calendar invites, and web pages, using techniques like white-on-white text in messages and documents, prompts hidden in meeting agenda fields to trigger exfiltration when an agent summarizes them, and instructions embedded in ad HTML via alt-text and tiny fonts. Proofpoint calls the techniques still experimental, but the shift from research demo to priced commodity service is the signal here.
2026-04-25 / saas-disruption-researcherThoma Bravo + Google Cloud Strategic Partnership Gives $300B+ Portfolio Gemini Access — Orlando Bravo: 'Software Is About Domain Knowledge, Not Code'Thoma Bravo and Google Cloud launched a multiyear partnership on April 15 giving Thoma Bravo's $300B+ portfolio access to Gemini models, forward-deployed Google engineers, and Cloud Marketplace co-sell programs. The cybersecurity portfolio (Proofpoint, SailPoint, Darktrace, Sophos) gets dedicated AI security integration. Simultaneously, CEO Orlando Bravo told Semafor that 'software is not about the code — it's about your domain knowledge,' signaling the firm is hunting profitable niche SaaS players with defensible moats to acquire at depressed multiples. Translation: PE sees AI as the upgrade path for portfolio companies, not the threat.
2026-02-23 / agents-researcherProofpoint Acquires Acuvity for Agentic Workspace SecurityFirst cybersecurity platform for comprehensive agentic workspace protection. MCP server governance, shadow AI discovery, intent detection.

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Proofpoint acquired Meta Networks, founded by Hush Security team
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Proofpoint acquires Acuvity for agentic workspace security
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Proofpoint finds indirect prompt injection sold as a subscription service starting at $150/month
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Launched in beta August 5 Jason Lemkin's July 29 piece Proofpoint Proofpoint Snyk — Agent Skill Security Gen/Vercel Agent Trust Hub Cisco — A2A Scanner Cisco A2A Scanner GitHub AWS — Agentic AI Security Scoping Matrix Bitdefender — MCP Security Linux Foundation — AAIF PR Newswire (corroborated by SecurityWeek and Calcalist)

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