Software engineering leaders must prepare now—building API strategies designed for autonomous consumption, while strengthening protection against emerging threats from AI-driven workloads.
In this research, you’ll learn:
- Why MCP and A2A will drive more API usage, not less
- How agentic AI shifts API management focus from developer experience to agent experience
- What challenges organizations face with versioning, discovery, and sprawl in an agent-driven world
- How to double down on API security to protect against prompt injection, access control gaps, and novel attack vectors
Key Stats
- By 2028, 80% of organizations will see AI agents consume the majority of their APIs
- Through 2029, over 50% of successful attacks against AI agents will exploit access control issues
Download How MCP and the A2A Protocols Impact API Management to discover how to:
- Adapt your API program for agentic consumption
- Deliver secure, scalable API access to AI agents
- Implement the right security controls to defend against evolving attack surfaces
- Build a foundation for agent-to-agent interoperability
Set your API strategy on the right course for the age of agentic AI—start with the latest Gartner research.
Gartner, How MCP and the A2A Protocols Impact API Management, Shameen Pillai, Mark O'Neill, Aaron Lord, 25 August 2025
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