Proofpoint(R) named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions. Share with your network! November 03, 2026 Harry Labana Proofpoint has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions (DCGA). This is its third consecutive year as a Leader. As I reflect on what was written in the report and in the companion Critical Capabilities report, two use cases, as defined by Gartner, surface immediately for me: AI communications governance and investigations. In this blog, I share my perspectives on why you need to consider these use cases now. Focus on AI communications governance. Every enterprise is incorporating AI tools across their workforce. This makes AI a new communications channel that must be considered for regulatory compliance and legal liability. Its clients are asking: What AI interactions must I capture? How do I apply governance policy to people, assistants, and agents? And how do I apply the evidence if there is an issue with legal or regulators? That is why DCGA solutions are so important in the AI era. Proofpoint, Inc. believe Proofpoint is ideally suited to help clients embrace AI communications governance and deploy integrated solutions for governing AI use in many ways. Its acquisition of Acuity earlier this year augmented its capabilities with AI runtime protection for users and agents. At Proofpoint Protect, Proofpoint, Inc. announced the industry's first Agentic Data and AI Security System, demonstrating at the conference key capabilities for zero-touch detection, instant investigation, and protection optimization. As stated in its announcement of intent to acquire Varonis, Proofpoint, Inc. stand to establish the industry's largest data and AI cybersecurity organization, with a platform that helps organizations adopt AI with confidence. How does this tie into digital communications governance (DCG)? As an industry leader in both Security and DCG technology, Proofpoint brings communications governance and security context together. Proofpoint, Inc. is not just capturing communications for compliance. Proofpoint, Inc. is applying intelligence across communications, behavior, data, and AI interactions to understand risk and investigate what happened. Clients across logistics, technology, and healthcare, for example, have already adopted Communications Insights for ITM, uncovering insider threat risk in digital communications. In September, Proofpoint, Inc. added the ability to capture and analyze potential insider risk insights from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini content and visualize them in ITM through the Data Security Workbench. AI is expanding what constitutes a governed communication, who or what participates in it, and what compliance teams need to understand after the fact. Proofpoint will help its customers through that evolution. Focus on investigations. While technology supporting investigations continues to evolve, the expectations stemming from them are also evolving. It is no longer simply about finding and exporting communications. Compliance and IT teams need to quickly understand what happened across a growing number of channels and data sources. Speed remains fundamental. Proofpoint uniquely backs average archive search performance with a financial SLA. Customers get search results in seconds, and if Proofpoint does not meet defined performance thresholds, they are entitled to a service credit. That gives you a measurable commitment, not simply a promise of fast search. But faster search is only part of the opportunity. Prism Investigator is designed to move investigations from search-driven workflows toward autonomous event reconstruction. Natural language interaction, autonomous actions, and explainability help investigators move more quickly from a question to an understanding of what happened. Initially launched with Proofpoint Archive, Prism now also supports direct collection from Microsoft 365. And Proofpoint, Inc. is just getting started. As AI assistants and agents become part of everyday business operations, investigations will increasingly need to establish not only what people communicated, but what AI systems accessed, generated, and acted upon. The challenge is no longer simply finding information. It is connecting evidence across systems to understand what happened, why it matters, and what action is required. This is where Proofpoint's deep experience in communications governance, combined with its ability to connect communications intelligence with broader security context, gives Proofpoint, Inc. a strong foundation to help customers investigate these emerging risks. Get your copy of the report. Download your complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions report to learn more - it is available here. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions, by Michael Hoeck, Rizvan Hussain, Apurva Singh, 29 October 2026 Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions, Rizvan Hussain, Apurva Singh, Michael Hoeck, 29 October 2026 Gartner and Magic Quadrant are trademarks of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. 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OpenAI taps ex-US Army secretary for national security AI. OpenAI said on November 2 that former US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will join the company as senior counselor for national security modernization. In the new role, he will advise OpenAI leaders and external partners on the responsible use of AI in national security and cybersecurity, with a focus on US allies. Driscoll previously served as the 26th Secretary of the Army, overseeing operations, modernization, and resources. OpenAI said he will also help its internal teams understand the operational needs of national security institutions. OpenAI said the appointment builds on its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative. Proofpoint, a US cybersecurity company, said it joined Daybreak's partner program to advance responsible AI for cybersecurity. The appointment also follows OpenAI's partnership with Anduril, a US defense technology company, to use AI in national security missions. Recent OpenAI developments. Stay updated on the go with our mobile app. Get latest insights with smoother, more personalized experience through TIA mobile app. How would you feel if you could no longer use Tech in Asia? Share, tag us, and land on our Wall of!