Akamai just paid $205M because your security team is blind to how employees use AI

Your employees are feeding proprietary data into ChatGPT, Claude, and a dozen other AI tools right now.

Your security team can't see any of it.

Akamai just completed its acquisition of LayerX for $205 million. Not for its revenue. LayerX only has $10M ARR. Akamai bought it for one reason: visibility into what employees actually do inside browsers when they interact with AI.

Akamai's own EVP said it plainly: "Their existing controls cannot see how employees are interacting with AI tools and sharing with large language models."

This is not a niche problem. LayerX's technology sits inside the browser — the exact point where employees paste code into Copilot, upload documents to Gemini, and share sensitive prompts with third-party AI agents. Traditional security tools operate at the network or proxy level. By the time they see the data, it has already left your environment.

The deal signals where enterprise security is heading. The browser is the new perimeter. Every AI interaction happens there. If you cannot see, govern, and control what flows through that layer, you are operating blind in the AI era.

Audit your AI usage visibility today. If your DLP, CASB, or ZTNA stack cannot see browser-level AI interactions, you have a gap. Akamai just spent $205M to close theirs. What is your plan?