Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) have created hype in the AI and API development world. Organizations were largely unprepared for the surge in agent-driven API use, intensifying challenges in security, management, and scalability. This Gartner report cuts through the noise to show why robust APIs are now more essential than ever.

This whitepaper will help you:

• Understand why MCP and A2A rely on existing APIs for data, context, and resources.
• Prepare your API management strategy to support the agent experience, not just the developer experience.
• Double down on API security to address unproven protocols and mitigate the risk of agentic abuse.