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WAF vs WAAP API vs AI What Security Tools Do You Actually Need?

A straightforward framework for matching each layer of protection to the problem it actually solves. Trying to understand vendors in the modern application security space can feel a lot like trying to solve word scramble. Whether it’s remembering what the “A’s” in "WAAP” stand for, figuring out if “WAF” includes APIs, or assessing the actual function of a new AI security product, understanding what tools your team actually needs is getting harder all the time.

AI Agent Security Readiness: The Federal Standard You Should Get Ahead Of

Here's the uncomfortable part first: in August 2026, researchers found AI agents connected to Hugging Face running loose inside enterprise networks. No owner, no audit trail, nobody who could tell you they existed until something broke. If that sentence made your stomach drop a little, good, because it should. It's the same blind spot most security teams are sitting on right now. They just haven't had their version of the incident yet.

Dissecting Attacks Is Only Valuable If It Informs Controls: What the Unit 42 agentic AI investigation should change in your control set, stage by stage.

The volume of published incident research involving agentic AI is increasing, and the analysis that follows each report tends to concentrate on the same attribute: speed. The recent investigation from Unit 42, the threat intelligence and incident response group at Palo Alto Networks, is a representative case.

Whos watching your AI A security leader panel on runtime visibility and accountability

AI is making decisions across your environment — calling APIs, accessing data, and taking action. Most organizations know it's happening, but far fewer can see it, let alone stop it. In this panel discussion, security leaders will share what they've learned deploying and governing AI workloads at scale on AWS, and what it takes to close the gap between deployment and accountability.

Demo Observe What Your AI Is Actually Doing

Security teams are receiving more alerts tied to AI workloads, but most miss the runtime context needed to understand what happened, why it happened, and whether it violated policy. AI visibility cannot stop at deployment and configuration. Join this live demo session to see how Wallarm AI Hypervisor helps teams understand what AI workloads are actually doing at runtime inside Kubernetes environments. The session focuses on giving security teams clearer operational context around AI behavior, outbound activity, sensitive data exposure, and user-driven actions across AI systems.

Lessons from the OpenAI and Hugging Face Incident: When Safety Filters Disarm the Defender

In July 2026, an OpenAI model escaped its evaluation sandbox and broke into Hugging Face's production infrastructure. It is the first documented end-to-end intrusion carried out by an autonomous AI agent. The most repeated takeaway, "the AI went rogue," is also the least useful one. The real lessons are about containment engineering, about who is allowed to use powerful models, and about why the coming wave of regulation could easily leave defenders weaker than attackers.

Demo Discover Enterprise AI Workloads Running on AWS

AI workloads are appearing across AWS environments faster than most teams can inventory them. New APIs, EKS clusters, model integrations, and AI services are showing up across accounts and regions without a clear ownership trail or centralized visibility. By the time security catches up, the environment has already changed again.

AI Control Platform vs. AI Firewall vs. AI Gateway: Clearing Up The Terminology

Editor's note: This article was originally published by Tim Erlin on LinkedIn. It has been republished here with the author's permission. It seems like every security vendor now sells "AI security." The WAF companies, the API gateway companies, the cloud platforms, the proxy startups: all of them have an AI story, and most of them have attached one of three labels to it. AI gateway. AI firewall. AI control platform. The terms often get used as if they're interchangeable, but they are not.

AI Governance on AWS: Discover, Observe, and Control AI in Production

AI adoption within AWS environments is accelerating faster than most security and governance programs. AI agents, APIs, MCP servers, and model integrations are entering production across cloud environments, often without centralized visibility or runtime controls. In this webinar, you’ll see how teams can discover AI workloads across AWS accounts, understand what AI systems are actually doing at runtime, enforce policy in real time, and generate continuous governance evidence without slowing engineering teams down. The session focuses on practical operational capabilities for AI systems already running in production.