"Visa and cybersecurity company Akamai Technologies are collaborating to address a significant pain point in agentic commerce: verifying whether the bot conducting the transaction was sent by a human or is a malicious actor. The partnership, announced Wednesday, utilizes Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol in conjunction with Akamai Technologies' cybersecurity protections to create safer agent-based commerce experiences with better fraud controls."
""By combining Visa Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai's deep user recognition and threat intelligence, we're working to solve the dual-identity challenge that's crucial to AI commerce," said Patrick Sullivan, chief technology officer of security strategy at Akamai Technologies. "We prove both who the agent is and, critically, who it represents. This is what transforms AI agents from novelties into trusted economic actors.""
AI shopping assistants enable autonomous, agentic transactions that can perform purchases on behalf of users. Agentic transactions increase convenience but introduce new security risks, including malicious bots impersonating human-initiated agents. Visa and Akamai Technologies are partnering to verify whether a transaction-initiating bot was sent by a human and to prove both the agent's identity and who it represents. The collaboration pairs Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai's deep user recognition and threat intelligence to create safer agent-based commerce and stronger fraud controls. Card networks are also implementing protocols and tokenization, such as Visa's Intelligent Commerce and AI-ready tokenized cards.
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