Traditional CASB and SSE solutions were designed primarily to secure network traffic and applications access. AI changes where security needs to happen. Akamai brings security closer to where AI activity actually occurs: the point of interaction. This provides real-time visibility and control over human and agent activity, tied to identity, so organizations can deploy the security they actually need without inheriting the technical debt of legacy security stacks
OVERVIEW
Static perimeter defenses can’t keep up with the speed and scale of AI
Enterprise workflows are more dynamic and interconnected than ever before. Autonomous AI agents can work with unseen authority, allowing frontier AI-powered threats to easily outmaneuver traditional security models. Organizations need layered defenses that secure interactions at every level.
Discover, control, contain, and validate AI interactions with Akamai
From the employee to the application to the API to the network, Akamai Workforce Protector (formerly LayerX), Akamai API Security, and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation give organizations what they need to secure their AI interactions at every level.
Secure your workforce’s AI interactions with Akamai Workforce Protector
As employees use AI assistants and agents, these tools introduce new security risks and complex permissions. Akamai Workforce Protector secures these interactions, delivers granular authority over nonhuman agents, and enforces phishing-resistant authentication with Zero Trust controls.
Minimize app and API interaction risks with Akamai App & API Protector, Akamai API Security, and Akamai Firewall for AI
Continuous API calls make your apps targets. App & API Protector delivers web application firewall protections at the edge. API Security provides discovery, governance, and audits of APIs. Firewall for AI adds prompt injection defense, and protections against data exfiltration and toxic output.
Secure infrastructure breaches against AI-driven risks with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Akamai Prolexic
AI has scaled infrastructure attacks and turbocharged the speed at which a breach can move laterally. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation limits lateral threat movement using granular microsegmentation, while Akamai Prolexic defends infrastructure against volumetric DDoS and DNS attacks to maintain continuous availability.
How AI security works
How Akamai secures AI interactions across your workforce, apps and APIs, and infrastructure
Akamai’s AI security solutions, supported by a global edge platform and real-time threat intelligence, help you:
- Govern user and agentic AI interactions
- Protect your business-critical applications, APIs, and enterprise AI models
- Build resilient infrastructure that powers AI workloads and prevents the lateral movement of threats
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See how Akamai protects every AI interaction
Akamai helps you secure every interaction across your workforce, your applications and APIs, and your infrastructure. Get systematic visibility into these interactions, allowing you to reduce your exposure, contain attacks before they spread, and continuously validate controls.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Akamai aligns with frameworks like the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF), ISO/IEC 42001, and global data privacy mandates by providing real-time visibility into shadow AI usage, data exfiltration controls, and automated API governance. Continuous telemetry logging ensures security teams maintain auditable proof of all AI system interactions.
Akamai protects digital interactions where they occur — across your workforce, application and API layers, and underlying infrastructure. By placing active enforcement within live browser sessions, at the edge, and across internal workload paths, Akamai reduces exposure to AI-driven threats and stops attacks before they spread.
Employees regularly grant delegated authority to AI tools and agents that interact with enterprise systems at machine speed. Without real-time interaction controls, these nonhuman entities can expose sensitive data, introduce unauthorized extensions, and bypass static access policies.
Akamai applies continuous discovery, real-time behavioral telemetry, and edge-based WAF protections across every software interaction. Akamai Firewall for AI defends enterprise models against prompt injection, data exfiltration, and toxic outputs, while Akamai Bot Manager mitigates automated scraping and reconnaissance by adversarial agents.
Attackers can move laterally through internal network paths in under 30 minutes. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation applies granular, software-defined rules to isolate workloads and enforce least-privilege communications. This containment limits the blast radius of an intrusion and stops threats from traversing hybrid or multicloud infrastructure.
Akamai Prolexic and Edge DNS rely on a distributed edge network spanning over 1,000 Tbps of capacity across 130+ countries. Backed by 24/7 Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) experts, Akamai mitigates complex, hyper-volumetric DDoS and DNS attacks before traffic reaches your origin servers, providing 100% platform availability and zero-second SLAs.
Traditional perimeters rely on fixed network boundaries and point-in-time identity checks. Modern work flows continuously through dynamic API calls, cloud microservices, and autonomous agents. Effective security evaluates intent and enforces controls continuously during every active interaction rather than relying on boundary gates.
Akamai delivers enforcement across the entire interaction lifecycle — from global edge routing to active browser sessions and internal east-west traffic. Analyzing over 2,100 TB of security data daily gives Akamai immediate visibility into emerging threats, allowing new protections to deploy instantly across all protected customers
Prepare your defenses for frontier AI-driven risk
Frontier models can accelerate discovery, probing, and exploitation before teams can react. Talk to Akamai about how to:
- Identify exposed applications, APIs, and attack paths
- Contain lateral movement and reduce blast radius
- Stop bots, agents, and automated reconnaissance
- Protect applications and APIs while remediation is underway
- Strengthen layered defenses for AI-accelerated threats