The Governance Gap: How the EU AI Act Makes API Security a Compliance Imperative

## Executive Summary This blog post explains how the EU AI Act elevates API security and governance into a compliance imperative, emphasizing the need for granular visibility, continuous discovery of AI-related APIs (including undocumented "shadow" APIs), real-time monitoring for manipulation or data exfiltration risks, and board-level reporting. It argues that organizations must produce defensible evidence of controls and proposes combining automated API discovery/monitoring with governance processes, citing Wallarm Security Edge and Consulteer InCyber as practical solutions.