As AI agents move from experimental tools to production workhorses, enterprises are facing a security dilemma: how do you control systems that can act autonomously across APIs, tools, and sensitive data? Akto believes it has the answer. Today, the company announced the launch of the Agentic Security Platform, a purpose-built, end-to-end solution designed for the age of autonomous AI agents.
“AI agents are no longer experiments—they’re touching sensitive data, financial systems, and customer interactions,” said Ankita Gupta, Akto’s Co-Founder and CEO. “Enterprises risk shipping agents without visibility, controls, and continuous assurance. Agentic Security Platform provides guardrails for this new Agentic-first era.”
A New Security Frontier
Traditional application security tools were designed for web apps and APIs. They weren’t built to handle autonomous agents that chain multiple tools, make independent decisions, and access confidential data. This shift introduces an entirely new attack surface: prompt injections, poisoned memory, cascading hallucinations, and unauthorized tool use—all risks that legacy AppSec solutions often miss.
As companies scale multi-step agents and adopt the Model Context Protocol (MCPs), the challenge intensifies. The Agentic Security Platform is positioned to fill that gap, offering real-time visibility, continuous stress-testing, and runtime enforcement to keep agents in check.
Three Pillars of Agentic Security
The platform rests on three core capabilities:
1. Agentic Visibility & Discovery
Automatically inventories all agents, MCP servers, tools, and data sources, while tracking lineage and dependencies to surface hidden risks.
2. Agentic Red Teaming
Runs continuous simulations using Akto’s AI Agent Attack Matrix, a database of over 1,000 real-world agent exploits, identifying vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
3. Guardrails & Runtime Protection
Enforces enterprise policies in real time, stopping risky agent behaviors, unauthorized tool usage, or dangerous multi-step chains before they can cause damage.
“We’re seeing enterprises adopt agents faster than they can secure them,” said Ankush Jain, Akto Co-Founder and CTO. “With Akto, security teams can finally get ahead—discover every agent, continuously stress-test them, and enforce guardrails before an incident occurs.”
Why It Matters
For organizations relying on autonomous AI, the stakes are high. One rogue agent could compromise sensitive financial data, leak customer information, or cascade errors across multiple systems. Akto’s approach is proactive, blending visibility, simulation, and enforcement into a single platform—a sharp contrast to the reactive patchwork typical of traditional AppSec.
As enterprises race toward agent-first architectures, the question isn’t whether AI will change security—it’s whether security can keep up. Akto is betting it can.
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