Most organizations are moving faster on agentic AI than they are on governing it.. Akto has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as an AI Corporate Member to help address this gap.
CSA is the world's leading not-for-profit organization dedicated to AI, cloud, and Zero Trust cybersecurity education.
Through this membership, Akto will contribute to the security standards, frameworks, and benchmarks that guide how enterprises deploy AI agents. Akto CEO and Co-Founder Ankita Gupta is joining CSA's AI Safety Ambassador Program council, bringing Akto's practical experience in agentic AI and MCP security to the working groups developing these practices.
The Security Gap in Enterprise AI
Enterprises are deploying autonomous AI agents into production, often connected to sensitive systems through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This creates a new attack surface that traditional tools were not built to address. According to Akto's State of Agentic AI Security Report, 79% of organizations deploying AI agents lack visibility into what those agents access and do.
What Akto Does
Akto is an AI Agent Security platform built for this environment. Akto works with Fortune 1000 security teams to govern the adoption of AI agents and MCPs across employee environments and to help enterprises build them securely in the cloud. Akto was the first vendor to launch a purpose-built MCP Security solution and has been developing in this area since its early days.
Akto secures every layer of the agentic ecosystem through one integrated platform.
It automatically discovers and catalogs every MCP server, AI agent, tool, and data source across cloud, on-premise, and employee environments, assigning a risk score to each. Its red teaming covers the full OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI, LLMs, and MCPs, plus 4,000 additional probes, identifying threats such as prompt injection, memory poisoning, and tool misuse before attackers can exploit them. At runtime, Akto monitors AI traffic and enforces guardrails that block prompt injection, prevent data exfiltration, apply least-privilege access, and mask sensitive data.
Agentic AI is not a future risk; it is a present one. Enterprises today are deploying autonomous agents, often with no runtime visibility and no controls in place," said . Joining the CSA as an AI Corporate Member enables us to further our commitment to helping enterprises build concrete, implementable controls for their agentic AI deployments, before their first incident, not after.
Ankita Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Akto
Akto's Contribution to the CSA
Through the AI Safety Ambassador Program, Akto will apply its hands-on experience to the standards that the broader industry will rely on. Specifically, Akto will contribute to:
AI security benchmarks that give enterprises a clear standard to measure their deployments against.
MCP security guidance that helps organizations adopt the protocol while managing its risks.
Agentic AI red teaming standards for the pre-deployment testing of autonomous systems.
The security risks surrounding agentic AI are real and growing, and enterprises need clear, actionable guidance to stay ahead of them. We're excited to welcome Akto to the Cloud Security Alliance. Their expertise in runtime agent behavior, MCP security, and AI red teaming will be a valuable addition as we work together to advance practical solutions for securing enterprise AI deployments
Jim Reavis, CEO, CSA
About the Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world's leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, training, certification, events, and products. CSA's activities, knowledge, and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud - from providers and customers to governments, entrepreneurs, and the assurance industry - and provide a forum through which different parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org.
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