Protect every AI interaction
Black Hat
August 4–6, 2026
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Las Vegas | Booth 2561
Introducing Akamai Workforce Protector (Formerly LayerX)
AI has changed how we get our jobs done, introducing countless interactions between users, applications, data, and AI that aren’t covered by traditional controls.
To protect every AI interaction, you need security that follows the work.
Join us at Black Hat for the launch of Akamai Workforce Protector (formerly LayerX), the browser-first interaction security solution that allows you to:
- Discover shadow AI and agentic workflows
- Stop prompt-based data leakage
- Govern AI usage across users and agents
- Protect interactions without changing browsers or workflows
At Booth 2561, you can also explore how the broader Akamai Security portfolio helps you secure AI from interaction to infrastructure, including how to:
- Contain AI-driven attacks
- Discover AI-powered APIs
- Stop abuse, bots, and API attacks
- Apply runtime guardrails for AI apps
More reasons to visit booth 2561
Product demos
Akamai swag
Meet experts at our booth 2561 and demo Akamai Workforce Protector.
Take home limited edition Akamai swag. First come, first served.
Your 1:1 with Akamai Workforce Protector
Schedule a meeting with an Akamai expert to discuss how you can secure every AI interaction.
Meeting suite:
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Las Vegas
Akamai led executive roundtable
Patrick Sullivan
Senior Vice President,
Chief Technology Officer of Security Strategy
Empowering Security Teams: Achieving Resilience in the Frontier LLM Era
Frontier LLMs are industrializing cyber exploitation, creating sophisticated threats—like prompt injection, tool poisoning, and autonomous agent vulnerabilities—that traditional defenses simply cannot stop. This exclusive executive roundtable cuts through the noise to help you shift from reactive patch management to foundational architectural defense.
Together with fellow security leaders, we will explore how to strategically re-allocate cyber budgets, prepare for upcoming federal AI mandates, and secure the emerging agent economy.
Featured session
Ryan Barnett
Senior Threat Research Manager
Isabella Barnett
Security Researcher
Beyond Normalization: The Expanding Unicode Attack Surface
Unicode exploitation does not end with normalization. Modern web applications process input through layered pipelines—from WAF transformations and framework parsing to database collation and LLM preprocessing. When these layers make divergent assumptions about character validity, security boundaries fail.
Building on our Black Hat USA 2025 Briefing, this session reframes Unicode from a simple encoding footnote into a critical architectural attack surface. Through real-world telemetry, live demos, and hands-on labs, we expose a new class of distributed parsing vulnerabilities.
Discover how attackers weaponize illegal UTF-8 sequences, bypass __Host/ cookies via whitespace desynchronization, exploit MySQL zero-weight collisons, and abuse invisible variation selectors to jailbreak LLMs and trigger RCE (including CVE-2025-55182). Attendees will leave with the advanced tooling and insight required to defend the entire modern application pipeline.
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