As autonomous AI agents drive 100x API traffic growth, enterprises face unprecedented security challenges: exponential attack surfaces where agentic systems establish complex 1:many connections across distributed infrastructure

This session demonstrates how AWS provides defense-in-depth architecture for protecting agentic AI workflows at hyper-scale, addressing the insight that "you cannot secure AI without securing APIs."

Attendees will learn: (1) How three core components—LLMs, MCP servers, and autonomous agents—create attack vectors across 15 OWASP threat categories, (2) Real-world attack scenarios showing how traditional LLM guardrails protect models but leave the "agentic action layer" vulnerable, (3) Integrated AWS security architecture combining WAF Bot Control, Shield Advanced, API Gateway rate limiting, Network Firewall, GuardDuty, and Security Hub.

The presentation demonstrates the 4A Framework—Assess, Architect, Automate, Adapt—with specialized API protection strategies including automated discovery, behavioral threat detection, posture governance, and real-time blocking for securing the agentic AI ecosystem.