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Agents, Robotics, and Auth – Oh My!

Introduction

2025 will be the year of the futurist. I never thought that I’d be writing a blog post about AI and robotics at this point in my career, but technology has advanced so much in the lat 12 months setting up 2025 to be a landmark year in terms of the tech industry. Self driving cars, robots, AGI – these are all things that have a realistic chance of shipping this year which is super exciting for me as a futurist. That said, Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) agent technology, robotics, and APIs are transforming the way we live and work, but they also present new challenges for web application and API security. Traditional Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are going to struggle to keep pace with these changes, leading to the rise of API Native WAFs and WAF Agents as superior solutions. This article will explore the new threats to WAFs in 2025.

New Threats to WAFs in 2025

The increasing sophistication of AI agent technology, robotics, and APIs has given rise to a new generation of cyber threats. These threats are more complex, adaptive, and difficult to detect than ever before. The following table summarizes some of the key threats facing WAFs in 2025:

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AI-Powered Attacks

There is a distinction between AI-powered and AI-assisted threats. AI-powered attacks, like deepfake video scams, have been limited to date. AI-assisted threats are more common, where AI helps threat actors create variants of existing malware or better phishing email lures⁷. However, by 2025, malicious use of multimodal AI will be used to craft an entire attack chain. As multi-modal AI systems gain the ability to integrate text, images, voice, and sophisticated coding, threat actors will leverage them to streamline and automate the entire pipeline of a cyberattack⁷.

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One example of an AI-powered attack is the use of deepfakes to scam individuals. In one instance, scammers impersonated a company’s chief financial officer during a video conference call and convinced a finance worker to pay them $25 million². AI can also be used to automate social engineering

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