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Akamai offers security products to protect against threats from generative AI, AI-powered automation and AI agent ecosystems.

“Protection and Zero Trust Network Security – designed to address the expanding and evolving threat landscape facing modern enterprises. Our portfolio encompasses mature, market-leading security products including web application firewall ("WAF"), bot management, distributed denial-of-service ("DDoS") protection and domain name system ("DNS") security, complemented by fast-growing solutions in application programming interface ("API") security and network segmentation. As chief information security officers and security teams navigate increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments, the proliferation of generative AI interfaces, AI-powered automation, and emerging AI agent ecosystems, Akamai's platforms aim to deliver real-time protection across applications, APIs, networks and private access infrastructure. Our solutions are designed to serve businesses across every vertical, providing security controls to support both cloud-native application development and the rapidly expanding surface area introduced by AI-driven technologies.”

In 2025 Akamai launched Firewall for AI to protect AI applications, LLMs and AI agents from unauthorized queries and attacks.

“In 2025, Akamai launched Firewall for AI, a new solution that is designed to provide protection for AI applications against unauthorized queries, adversarial inputs and large-scale data-scraping attempts. Organizations are quickly deploying large language models ("LLMs"), AI agents and generative AI interfaces and tools, which introduces new security vulnerabilities, such as adversarial attacks, model extraction, prompt and API abuse and large-scale data scraping. Existing WAFs are not designed to mitigate these threats. Akamai Firewall for AI addresses this gap. The purpose-built security solution is designed to protect AI-powered applications, LLMs and AI-driven APIs from emerging cyberthreats by helping to secure inbound AI queries and outbound AI responses.”

In 2025 Akamai launched Akamai Inference Cloud for low-latency edge AI inference to support agentic workloads.

“Also in 2025, Akamai launched Akamai Inference Cloud ("AIC"), a platform that expands AI inference from core data centers to the edge of the internet. AIC is designed to provide low-latency, real-time edge AI processing on a global scale, redefining where and how AI is used by bringing intelligent, agentic AI inference close to users and devices. Agentic workloads increasingly require low-latency inference, localizable context, and the ability to rapidly scale across regions. AIC addresses this need by leveraging Akamai’s expertise in globally distributed infrastructure and other architectures, such as those provided by NVIDIA, to place AI inferencing capacity and performance closer to where data is created and decisions need to be made.”

Akamai provides scalable secure low-latency AI inference to power agentic and physical AI.

“Provides scalable, secure, and low-latency AI inference globally, to power the wave of Agentic and Physical AI”

Akamai launched Inference Cloud for intelligent agentic AI inference at the edge using NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure.

“Akamai Inference Cloud enables intelligent, agentic AI inference at the edge, close to users and devices. Unlike traditional systems this platform is purpose-built to provide low-latency, real-time edge AI processing on a global scale. This launch of Akamai Inference Cloud leverages Akamai’s expertise in globally distributed architectures and NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure to radically rethink and extend the accelerated computing needed to unlock AI's true potential.”

Akamai launched Inference Cloud, a distributed generative edge platform for agentic AI inference using NVIDIA stack.

“The next generation of AI applications, from personalized digital experiences and smart agents to real-time decision systems demand that AI inference be pushed closer to the user, providing instant engagement where they interact, and making smart decisions about where to route requests. Agentic workloads increasingly require low-latency inference, local context, and the ability to scale globally in an instant. Built to power this transformation, Akamai Inference Cloud is a distributed, generative edge platform that places the NVIDIA AI stack closer to where data is created and decisions need to be made.”

Akamai launched Inference Cloud combining NVIDIA RTX PRO servers, BlueField DPUs, AI Enterprise software and its edge network.

“Akamai Inference Cloud redefines where and how AI is used by bringing intelligent, agentic AI inference close to users and devices. The platform combines NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software with Akamai's distributed cloud computing infrastructure and global edge network, which has over 4,200 locations worldwide. Akamai Inference Cloud will drive Akamai's vision for highly scalable, distributed AI performance worldwide by leveraging NVIDIA’s latest technologies — including the recently announced NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU -- to further accelerate and secure data access and AI inference workloads from core to edge.”

Akamai Inference Cloud enables streaming inference and agents for instant insights and real-time decisioning.

“● Enabling Streaming Inference and Agents to provide instant financial insights and perform real-time decisioning - AI agents require multiple sequential inferences to complete complex tasks, creating delays that erode user engagement. Agentic AI workflows require several inference calls, and if each call creates a network delay, it makes the experience feel sluggish or too slow to meet machine-to-machine latency requirements. Akamai Inference Cloud's edge-native architecture delivers virtually instant responses, enabling AI agents to operate with human-like responsiveness across multi-step workflows. This can be useful in detecting fraud, accelerating secure payments, and enabling high-speed decisions for industrial edges.”

Akamai describes example use cases of agentic AI in mobile apps for its cloud customers.

“23© Akamai | Published on February 20, 2025 Customers are looking for brands that not only meet their AI needs, but who do it in a cost-effective and scalable manner, with low latency and massive throughput. This is where Akamai excels. Akamai Cloud Computing Powers AI Needs Advertising Video Content AI algorithms generate short-form promotional videos and iteratively optimize them to support advertising campaigns Actioning User Behavior Insights AI predicts the outcome of promotional ideas by predicting human social engagement and buying behavior User-Generated Content AI algorithm processes images using Akamai Cloud GPUs before they are uploaded to the website and rendered Agentic AI in Mobile App Inference over fine tuned inventory and promotion data model leveraged for speech recognition to improve the user experience EXAMPLE USE CASES IN ACTION TODAY:”