On March 25 at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco, Proofpoint Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember discussed the company’s roadmap for leveraging artificial intelligence to predict and counter emerging cyber threats. The session detailed Proofpoint’s approach to integrating AI agents into email, cloud and collaboration security products to detect anomalies and automate incident response.

Proofpoint’s recent acquisition of Acuvity adds advanced AI-driven analytics and behavior-based threat hunting tools to its portfolio, enabling real-time detection of sophisticated attacks. This purchase expands Proofpoint’s human- and agent-centric security platform by incorporating data-centric security controls and automated policy enforcement.

Proofpoint’s enhanced AI security offerings raise the bar for enterprise cybersecurity, creating potential market share headwinds for rivals like Check Point. Check Point may need to accelerate its own AI integrations or pursue strategic partnerships to maintain its leadership in network and cloud security solutions.