AI has super-charged both innovation and abuse, transforming industries unevenly. Akamai’s latest State of the Internet: Fraud & Abuse report reveals a 300% surge in AI-driven automated traffic, with commerce alone seeing over 25 billion bot requests in just two months. While some bots enhance digital experiences, others scrape pricing data, mimic user behavior, and exploit APIs to commit fraud, creating compliance, brand, and revenue risks.
Drawing on these findings and insights from Expedia Group, this session explores the evolving intersection of AI automation, behavior-based fraud, and API-level defenses. Speakers will unpack how to identify when “helpful” automation turns harmful and why sustainability in security design, through continuous discovery, intent analytics, and adaptive controls, is the key to protecting both innovation and customer trust.
Key Takeaways:
- Detect fraud by analyzing behavioral patterns, not just bot signatures.
- Map API inputs/outputs to expose hidden abuse pathways.
- Build sustainable defenses that protect revenue and enable responsible AI innovation.
