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- 48.9% of Enterprises Can't See What Their AI Agents Are Doing to Their APIs
- ai
- api-security
- observability
The 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 article - The MCP trifecta: three conditions that turn AI agents into your riskiest API clients
- security
- ai
- api-management
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 article - Zerq vs Kong vs AWS API Gateway: a no-BS comparison for enterprises
- comparisons
- enterprise
- architecture
Same words, different animals: self-hosted platform vs gateway with plugins vs regional AWS managed API front door. Dimensions to compare—without pretending one SKU fits every estate.
Read article - 38% of Organizations Learn About Their API Breaches From Outsiders
- api-security
- observability
- governance
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.
Read article - On-Premises vs. Cloud API Gateway: Which Is Right for Regulated Industries?
- api-gateway
- compliance
- on-premises
On-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 article - What Is an API Gateway? An Enterprise Buyer's Guide (2026)
- api-gateway
- enterprise
- compliance
Large 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.
Read article - AI Agents Are Calling Your APIs. Your Infrastructure Wasn't Built for Them.
- ai
- security
- mcp
AI 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 article - Zerq vs Kong: which API gateway is actually built for regulated enterprises?
- comparisons
- enterprise
- governance
Regulated teams need audit evidence, deployment boundaries, and one metrics story—not only a fast proxy. How Zerq and Kong compare on the dimensions compliance reviews actually probe.
Read article - 43% of New CISA Exploited CVEs in 2025 Were API Vulnerabilities — The Gateway Controls That Matter
- security
- api-management
- threat-intelligence
Wallarm'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.
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