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More than a third of enterprises only discover API breaches through external notification. The detection gap is not a monitoring tool problem. It is a gateway architecture problem — one that starts with what your request logs actually contain.
Privileged access, untrusted input, and an external communication channel. When all three meet without a governed gateway, the result is data exfiltration—as proved in production. What enterprises must enforce at the edge for AI clients in 2026.
Read articleResearch on multi-agent system failures found that a single compromised agent can poison 87% of downstream decision-making within four hours. The only reliable containment layer is the API gateway — if it's built for agent-level identity and per-client blast-radius controls.
Read articleEnterprise access reviews are built around human users. But the identity surface has inverted: for every employee, there are now an estimated 82 machine identities operating against your APIs. Without a machine-identity-aware gateway model, your access reviews are compliance theatre.
Read articleThe 1H 2026 State of AI and API Security report found that nearly half of organizations are blind to non-human API traffic. As agentic AI deployments accelerate, that visibility gap is becoming the most exploited control failure in enterprise infrastructure.
Read articleAI agents are hitting enterprise APIs at scale in 2026 — and breaking them. Here's what fails at the auth, rate limiting, observability, and security layers, and how to fix it.
Read article40% of enterprise apps will include AI agents by 2026. MCP downloads hit 8 million in five months. When autonomous agents become your primary API consumers, the traditional versioning contract — email notice, six-month window, hard sunset — breaks down completely.
Read articleWallarm's 2026 API ThreatStats report shows 43% of newly added CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2025 were API-related. 59% required no authentication to exploit. Here is what the data means for how you configure your gateway.
Read articleOn-premises or cloud API gateway? For regulated enterprises in banking, healthcare, and government, the choice has real compliance consequences. Sovereignty inquiries surged 305% in H1 2025 and GDPR fines have crossed €7.1 billion. Here's how to decide.
Read articleLarge enterprises now manage an average of 1,800 APIs — with only 58% formally documented. 99% hit API security issues last year. And 40% of enterprise apps will include AI agents by 2026. Here's what an enterprise API gateway does and what to look for when buying one.
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