Proofpoint Acquires Nuclei for Enhanced Communications Capture and Archiving

Proofpoint, Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity and compliance company, has announced the acquisition of Nuclei, Inc., a U.S.-based technology company specializing in compliance archiving and AI-driven data enrichment.

With this acquisition, Proofpoint expects to enhance its digital communications governance (DCG) offering with capabilities to capture, retain, and analyze communications across workspace collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, Webex, WhatsApp, and RingCentral Voice. In addition, Proofpoint will continue to support integration with a broad range of archive and data governance platforms to ensure delivery of interoperability across diverse customer environments.

The Nuclei platform is designed to capture and archive data from more than 100 applications including messages, attachments, and metadata across collaboration tools. The platform also offers speech recognition in over 120 languages, real-time transcription, automatic translation, and video analysis. Vendor integrations include Proofpoint, Smarsh, Global Relay, Arctera, and Microsoft Purview. It also offers end-to-end encryption to protect data in transit, encrypting content from point of capture to storing in the archive.

“At Nuclei, our mission is to democratize access to the world’s most valuable data by transforming workplace communications into structured, compliant, and actionable information,” said Eric Franzen, CEO of Nuclei, Inc. “Partnering with Proofpoint allows us to extend that impact by helping the world’s largest organizations boost productivity across hundreds of collaboration platforms while staying ahead of growing regulatory requirements.”

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The combined offering is expected to boost compliance archiving while unlocking insights from conversational data.