The acceleration of AI development has made API security a board-level imperative — yet most enterprises are managing a sprawling, poorly understood API estate with tools built for a different era. The 2026 Akamai API Security Impact Study draws on exclusive research about the views and experiences of more than 1,800 global security professionals to surface the vulnerabilities that threat actors are already exploiting at scale. You will learn: How 87% of enterprises suffered an API security incident last year Why only 23% of organizations know which of their APIs return sensitive data How LLM-linked APIs became prime targets for threat actors What your peers are doing to protect their API estates
