India, Sept. 23 -- Enterprise AI is moving from tools that assist employees to agents that can act across APIs, applications and business systems. That shift is creating a security problem that traditional identity and access controls may not fully address.

Akamai's latest State of the Internet Security report argues that securing agentic AI enterprise environments now requires a stronger focus on behavioural governance. The concern is no longer only who has access, but what autonomous systems are doing, how they behave and whether their actions can be verified.

As AI agents take on more tasks, enterprises are dealing with a growing population of nonhuman entities. Akamai identifies this as a shift from managing human identities towards...