Salt-State-of-API-Agentic-AI-2026.md

Salt Security's 1H 2026 report argues that APIs have become the operational backbone of AI-driven and agentic systems, identifies large visibility and security gaps (rapid API growth, authenticated machine-origin attacks, high incidence of sensitive data exposure and misconfigurations), and recommends building an Agentic Security Graph, real-time behavioral monitoring, identity-aware intent analysis, and IDE/CI/CD guardrails to secure AI-integrated development and runtime.