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Akamai Report: Securing Agentic AI Requires Shift to Behavioral Governance

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Akamai released its latest State of the Internet (SOTI) Security report, titled "Speed, Scale, and Nonhuman Identity: The Agentic Threat Landscape," which focuses on emerging AI security challenges.

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Key takeaways CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As organizations deploy agentic AI to execute tasks across APIs and systems, enterprises face a fundamental shift in risk. Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) today released its latest State of the Internet (SOTI) Security report focused on emerging AI challenges. Targeted to a CISO audience, Speed, Scale, and Nonhuman Identity: The Agentic Threat Landscape explains that securing modern business has evolved from solely identity and access management for people into a challenge of behavioral governance over nonhuman entities. The report highlights two critical challenges: the difficulty of setting guardrails for autonomous agents, and the speed at which AI models discover vulnerabilities - often outpacing human patch cycles. Key findings from the SOTI report "AI presents an 'everything, everywhere, all at once' moment for the security ecosystem as a whole," said Boaz Gelbord, Chief Security Officer at Akamai. "You have this triple threat: First, internal usage of AI across the organization, whether that's AI generated code or leveraging AI productivity tools. Second, you have the integration of AI directly into customer-facing products and cloud workloads, which reshapes your operational risk profile. Third, you have AI-driven attacks targeting the enterprise. Security programs need to adapt to this rapidly evolving reality...

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