Name: AI & Microsegmentation: Leveling the Playing Field
Start: 2026-02-11T15:00:00Z
End: 2026-02-11T15:00:45.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn.

In this If APIs Could Talk episode, we’ll explore how Akamai API Security Active Testing helps teams maintain strong API security as developers increasingly rely on AI co-pilots to write code faster. While AI-assisted development accelerates delivery, it can also introduce subtle API weaknesses, misconfigurations, and security gaps that are easy to miss during reviews. This session will show how Active Testing continuously analyzes API implementations, detecting authentication issues and other vulnerabilities early, before they reach production. We’ll discuss where AI-generated code commonly introduces risk, how Active Testing fits into modern development workflows, and how teams can use it to ensure APIs remain aligned with security standards and best practices without slowing down developer velocity.

Ep. 23 - Ensuring AI-Generated Code Is Secure with Active Testing

LLMs are becoming high-value attack surfaces — vulnerable to prompt injection, data exfiltration, AI-specific DoS, and output manipulation. Traditional security stacks have to evolve to see, understand, or stop these threats.

In this episode, we’ll take you under the hood of Akamai’s Firewall for AI — a purpose-built solution designed to protect generative AI and LLM applications from real-time exploitation. We’ll walk through the system’s architecture, policy models, and detection capabilities — and showcase a live demo of how it stops AI-layer threats otherwise missed.

You’ll learn:
- How Firewall for AI enforces security policies against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and abuse
- How configurable context-aware detections protect AI APIs and chat interfaces
- How organizations can monitor, control, and secure LLMs without disrupting performance or innovation

Whether you're deploying third-party models, fine-tuned internal copilots, or exposing AI via APIs — this session shows how to make AI defenses operational, scalable, and resilient by design.

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Firewall for AI: The Next Gen-AI Protection is Here

Watch this video to learn how scalable, distributed AI infrastructure forms the backbone of the AI era, powering workloads from the data center to the edge.

AI Infrastructure

This expert Year in Review webinar brings together some of Akamai’s top security leaders to break down 2025’s biggest threat shifts — from multi-terabit DDoS to AI-powered attacks — and outline what security teams must prepare for in 2026. Learn how attackers changed tactics, where resilience broke down, and which emerging risks now demand priority.

You’ll learn:
• How AI accelerated attack speed, scale, and precision
• Where API, bot, and DDoS risks are trending in 2026
• Which operational gaps security leaders see most often

Moderator: 
•  Richard Meeus, Director of Security Technology and Strategy, EMEA, Akamai
Panelists:
•  Kimberly Gomez, Director, Security Research, Akamai
•  Roger Barranco, Vice President, Global Security Operations, Akamai
•  Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO, Akamai

Register now to secure your spot.

Akamai is an approved ISC2 CPE Submitter Partner. Earn CPE Credits by watching our Webinar and providing us with your ISC2 Member ID number either in the 'Question' or 'Rate this' section.

AI, APIs and Audacity: From 2025’s Attacks to 2026’s Threats

Cyber insurance premiums continue to rise, and insurers are increasingly refusing coverage to organizations with weak security postures. In this session, we will explore how Microsegmentation directly influences security readiness, premium costs, and coverage eligibility.

Join this engaging session to delve into:
- Methods of security evaluation by cyber insurers
- The impact of security readiness on insurance premiums and coverage eligibility
- Case study insights on the successful maintenance of insurance terms post a cyber-attack
- Strategies that turned network vulnerabilities into opportunities

Akamai is an approved ISC2 CPE Submitter Partner. Earn CPE Credits by watching our Webinar and providing us with your ISC2 Member ID number either in 'Question' or 'Rate this' section.

Lower Premiums, Stronger Security: Microsegmentation for Cyber Insurance

As AI continues to accelerate software development, new risks are emerging faster than most security teams can respond. Developers are building faster with AI-generated code, giving rise to “Shadow AI”: unsanctioned tools, agents, and automations that operate beyond the reach of visibility and governance. Every one of these AI workflows depends on APIs, and every hidden API represents potential exposure.

In this next session of Akamai’s “APIs in the Age of AI” series, experts from Akamai and Snyk unpack how to bring security back into focus. You’ll learn how AI is changing the way applications are built, why visibility into API schemas is the foundation of control, and how organizations can close the gap between AI-driven development and traditional AppSec.

What you’ll learn:

•How “Shadow AI” emerges across enterprises—and why APIs are at the center of it
•The risks of AI-generated code and agent-to-agent communication
•How visibility and schema discovery can eliminate blind spots in your API landscape
•Practical steps to integrate continuous API testing and runtime protection
•How Akamai and Snyk’s joint approach helps secure both the APIs and the AI systems they power
 
Join us to explore how to go from Shadow AI to Secure APIs—and how to safely accelerate innovation in an AI-powered world.

Akamai is an approved ISC2 CPE Submitter Partner. Earn CPE Credits by watching our Webinar and providing us with your ISC2 Member ID number either in 'Question' or 'Rate this' section.

APIs in the Age of AI: From Shadow AI to Secure APIs

Michael Villar used to be an Akamai customer. Now he's a director of field security technology. Akamai's approach to segmentation sold him on the company, and in this interview he discusses the maturity of segmentation solutions and how to maximize value.

In this video interview with Information Security Media Group, Villar also discussed:

His background in segmentation technology;
Whether maturity is a technology challenge;
How to maintain momentum once value is created.
Villar joined Akamai as Director of Field Security Technology in the United States, previously Executive Director - Principal Engineer at Wells Fargo.

Segmentation and Zero Trust: The Maturity Challenge

Healthcare's AI moment has arrived, but most organizations are running next-generation intelligence on last-generation infrastructure. As digital health scales and AI agents become operational realities, the gap between innovation speed and infrastructure resilience is widening fast.

API sprawl, expanding attack surfaces, and compliance lag are existential risks that erode trust, slow adoption, and expose revenue to disruption.

Ari Weil from Akamai and Chris Notaro from Untangle Health will unpack how forward-looking healthcare organizations are turning infrastructure modernization into a competitive differentiator, capable of supporting:

millisecond AI operations;
real-time threat mitigation;
zero-downtime resilience during peak demand cycles

Converging Security, Performance, and Intelligence to Define Future-Ready Healthcare Operations

In this final If APIs Could Talk session of 2025, we’ll review the most impactful updates to Akamai API Security that improved visibility, control, and usability across the platform. We’ll revisit how APIs from Code expanded discovery into source repositories, the Compliance Dashboard simplified framework alignment, and Automatic Testing for APIs enhanced validation of authentication issues directly from the inventory. We’ll also discuss how GenAI and LLM endpoint tagging helps teams monitor emerging AI-related APIs, and highlight key UI improvements that make investigation and data analysis more efficient. This session is designed for practitioners who want a clear understanding of what has changed, why it matters, and how to maximize the benefits of these capabilities in their day-to-day operations.

Ep. 22 - 2025 Recap: Features That Delivered Real-World Impact

Watch our webinar On Demand in partnership with RetailWire. We were joined joined by industry experts to unpack how brands can move beyond traditional SEO and build lasting visibility and customer trust in an AI-powered world.

Redefining Customer Experience in the AI Era

Watch this video to learn how AI factories combine data, compute, and automation to continuously build, deploy, and evolve AI systems capable of delivering real-time intelligence at scale.

AI Factories

Cybercriminals are firmly on the naughty list this holiday season. From phishing emails to scams that exploit festive goodwill, social engineering remains one of the most effective tools in an attacker’s playbook.

In this on-demand episode of The SIG Download, Tricia Howard and Steve Winterfeld explore social engineering for both good and evil, counting down the “12 Threats of Christmas” and unpacking how these tactics are being used in real-world attacks.

In this session, you’ll learn:
- How social engineering drives modern attacks—and how it can also be used ethically
- Examples of real-world holiday-season scams and exploits
- Practical steps to help protect your organisation into the new year

Watch this festive and thought-provoking episode on demand.

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SIG Download: Episode 25 – The 12 Threats of Christmas – Social Engineering for Good and Evil

Generative AI spending is projected to surge nearly 75% in 2025, as enterprises race to stay competitive while pursuing low-risk adoption strategies. This on-demand session explores key findings from The State of Enterprise AI study, revealing how organizations are approaching AI to drive value securely and at scale.

The research shows that leading enterprises are prioritizing proven use cases to quickly build AI fluency, deliver measurable ROI, and minimize security and operational risks. This strategic approach enables safe experimentation and lays the groundwork for future innovation.

Key Takeaways:
- How to balance AI innovation with built-in risk mitigation.
- Which AI use cases are delivering fast, measurable value today.
- Why infrastructure is critical for secure, scalable AI adoption.

Watch now to gain strategic insights and actionable guidance for your organization’s AI journey.

Forrester Insights: The State of Enterprise AI Adoption and Risk Management

Smarter, faster-moving cyberthreats, tighter regulations, and rising insurer demands have put network segmentation strategy back in the spotlight, but many enterprises are struggling to keep pace. Enterprise segmentation adoption is high, at a basic level. However, maturity, in the form of microsegmentation, remains low. Why the disconnect?

Independent research commissioned by Akamai reveals a clear gap between segmentation intent and execution, a gap leaving many enterprises exposed. Many enterprises still rely on legacy north–south segmentation approaches, making them vulnerable to growing cyberattacks, including those using generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI).

Join us as we deep dive the data, and learn how early adopters, particularly large organizations with mature security operations, are already realizing multiple advantages:
- Lower insurance premiums
- Faster claims processing
- Stronger audit readiness
- Better ransomware outcomes

Akamai is an approved ISC2 CPE Submitter Partner. Earn CPE Credits by watching our Webinar and providing us with your ISC2 Member ID number either in 'Question' or 'Rate this' section.

Segmentation Impact Study 2025: Why Microsegmentation Matters Now

AI is redefining both innovation and attack surface. The rise of Agentic AI systems and autonomous AI bots has unleashed a new wave of threats — from intelligent scraping and adaptive fraud to Offensive AI models like FraudGPTand GhostGPT that automate reconnaissance and exploit generation.

This session explores the complex duality of AI as both attacker and target, examining the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and highlighting a commerce-sector case study. Join Ryan Gao who uncovers how threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and model denial-of-service — and how organizations can enhance visibility, safeguard AI-driven traffic, and implement stronger controls to protect their AI environments.

Key Takeaways:
- Uncover AI’s dual risk — attacker and target.
- Understand the mechanics of Offensive and Agentic AI threats.
- See how AI-based bots operate in a real commerce case study.
- Explore the OWASP Top 10 for LLM vulnerabilities.
- Gain practical strategies to strengthen AI resilience.

Akamai is an approved ISC2 CPE Submitter Partner. Earn CPE Credits by watching our Webinar and providing us with your ISC2 Member ID number either in 'Question' or 'Rate this' section.

The Dual Nature of AI: Understanding AI as Both Target and Threat

DDoS attacks remain a persistent threat to network responsiveness and profitability. But they not only represent risk, they’re also an untapped opportunity.

Join Akamai and Corero Network Security for a 30-minute, informative conversation exploring DDoS challenges, and how they can become growth opportunities. 

You’ll discover:
-Four hidden challenges driving DDoS-related costs in service provider networks
-Why sub-second mitigation, in-network visibility, and distributed protection are essential
-How to create tiered DDoS protection offerings that your customers will pay for

This discussion will give you a framework to turn those DDoS disruption pain points into business advantages.

Turning Today's DDoS Challenges into Opportunities

Join Tricia Howard and Ryan Barnett for Episode 24 of The SIG Download. Ryan shares findings from his recent Black Hat research on how attackers exploit Unicode and encoding quirks to conceal malicious activity. They also break down the most significant attacks observed over the past 30 days and offer practical guidance on how to defend against them.

In this on-demand session, you’ll learn:
- How seemingly normal text can be weaponized
- The impact of Unicode confusables, casing, and truncation
- Recent real-world attacks and actionable mitigation strategies

Watch now to get the insights you need to strengthen your defenses.

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SIG Download: Episode 24 - Lost in Translation: When Benign Text Turns Malicious

AI is reshaping cyber risk on both sides of the field. Attackers are using generative AI to move faster, automate lateral movement, and exploit gaps in flat networks, while defenders are increasingly looking for AI-driven tools to mitigate these risks. In this new reality, microsegmentation and Zero Trust aren’t optional architecture choices—they’re the foundation for containing AI-accelerated attacks.

In this webinar, we explore how AI is transforming both the threat landscape and the way organizations design, implement, and operationalize microsegmentation. A leading Forrester analyst and the product marketing lead for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation will connect market trends with real-world customer experiences to help you chart a practical path forward.

Join us for an engaging session as we delve into:
- How AI is changing attacker tactics, dwell time, and lateral movement patterns.
- Forrester’s latest perspective on microsegmentation, Zero Trust, and AI’s role in future-ready architectures.
- Real-world examples of how AI and automation are reducing friction in segmentation design and rollout.
- Guidance on how AI-assisted microsegmentation can further reduce blast radius and improve overall resilience.

Akamai is an approved ISC2 CPE Submitter Partner. Earn CPE Credits by watching our Webinar and providing us with your ISC2 Member ID number either in 'Question' or 'Rate this' section.

AI & Microsegmentation: Leveling the Playing Field

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