Akamai Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LayerX, a leading provider of browser‑based AI usage control and secure enterprise browser (SEB) technology, for approximately $205 million. The acquisition marks a major expansion of Akamai’s Zero Trust portfolio, extending protection directly into the browser—now the primary workspace for enterprise users and a critical control point for generative AI tools, SaaS AI applications, and agentic AI systems.
LayerX delivers deep visibility and control across the most widely used browsers, avoiding the disruption associated with proprietary enterprise browsers that force organizations to switch environments. This approach allows employees to continue using their preferred browsers—including emerging agentic browsers such as Atlas and Comet—while enabling security teams to monitor and govern interactions with web content, prompts, file uploads, and SaaS applications in real time. LayerX achieves this without infrastructure changes or adding friction to the workforce.
“Our customers are adopting AI at record speed, and they’re telling us the same thing: Their existing controls cannot see how employees are interacting with AI tools and sharing with large language models,” said Mani Sundaram, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Security Technology Group, Akamai. “The acquisition of LayerX helps close that gap, providing Akamai with a control layer that governs AI at the point of use so enterprises can move at AI speed without compromising safety and compliance.”
By combining LayerX with Akamai’s existing Zero Trust capabilities—including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), runtime protection for AI applications, and workload‑level segmentation for AI inference—Akamai will deliver AI usage control that spans the user, the application, and the infrastructure. This unified approach strengthens Akamai’s position as a global leader in high‑performance, scalable security.
“Securing human and agentic AI usage has become one of the defining challenges in enterprise security,” said Or Eshed, CEO and Co‑Founder of LayerX. “We’re excited to bring LayerX’s technology together with Akamai’s Zero Trust portfolio and global edge platform to help enterprises deploy AI safely at scale.”
LayerX employees, including Co‑Founders Or Eshed and David Vaisbrud, will join Akamai’s Zero Trust organization. This marks Akamai’s fourth cybersecurity acquisition in Tel Aviv in five years, further expanding its regional innovation hub.
The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2026, subject to customary conditions. The acquisition is anticipated to be dilutive to Akamai’s non‑GAAP EPS by approximately $0.12 for fiscal year 2026, with LayerX projected to reach roughly $10 million in ARR by year‑end.