Weak API controls are one of the biggest threats in the agentic AI era
Artificial intelligence agents are already running inside your enterprise workflows, whether you know it or not.
International Data Corp. projects full agentic AI deployment across the enterprise by 2027. Gartner Inc. estimates 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific agents by the end of this year, up from less than 5% in 2025.
The application programming interfaces these agents depend on weren’t built for them. They were designed for human-driven applications that assume the implicit judgment a developer exercises. But enterprises now manage thousands of APIs across teams, vendors and legacy systems, many of which are undocumented and ungoverned. That sprawl was already a problem; agents make it a crisis.
These systems can hallucinate actions, not just text, and that can be amplified dramatically by poorly defined APIs. An agent connected to a financial system that misinterprets a request can initiate an unauthorized payment, modify records incorrectly and expose sensitive data — all through a misused API endpoint.
