Cyber Defense Radio – Ankita Gupta - Co-Founder & CEO of Akto – Hotseat Podcast – 2026

🚨 New Episode of Cyber Defense Radio is LIVE!

🎙️ Hosted by Annabelle Thomas, Cybersecurity Champion of @CyberDefenseMag

In this powerful Hotseat Podcast interview, Ankita Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Akto, joins Cyber Defense Radio to discuss one of cybersecurity’s fastest-growing challenges: securing AI agents, MCP environments, LLM-powered applications, and the APIs that connect them.

Learn how Akto helps organizations:

✅ Discover AI agents, MCP servers, APIs, and previously unmanaged attack surfaces

✅ Secure Model Context Protocol environments as AI agents connect directly to enterprise tools and sensitive data

✅ Identify risks such as prompt injection, excessive permissions, insecure authentication, tool abuse, and unauthorized API access

✅ Continuously test AI agents, MCPs, and APIs for emerging vulnerabilities

✅ Apply security controls and runtime protections to reduce the risk of dangerous agent actions

✅ Gain greater visibility into shadow AI and unmanaged infrastructure across enterprise environments

✅ Protect the APIs that increasingly connect AI agents, applications, data, and business systems

💡 As AI agents move from simply generating answers to actually taking actions, enterprises need a new security model built around continuous discovery, testing, visibility, and protection.