Proofpoint introduced an AI agent for security operations that turns plain-language questions into structured, traceable investigation findings, aimed at the analysts who monitor company networks for attacks. Instead of manually piecing together logs, an analyst can ask a question and receive an organised answer with its steps recorded.
Making the AI's reasoning traceable is the important detail: in security, an answer you cannot check is not much use, because you must be able to prove what happened.
What it means: the most trustworthy business AI shows its work. Whether for security, accounting or customer records, prefer tools that let you see how they reached an answer and trace it back to the source, so a person can verify it rather than take it on faith.