What happened
On Oct 8 Cequence shipped Agent Trust in Cequence Application and API Protection: a detected-agent inventory, protocol-agnostic issuer registry, request-level activity log with behavioral profiling, and transaction-level enforcement (block/rate-limit/challenge a single action rather than the agent). Research driving the launch found Meta's Muse passed as a normal Chrome browser, completed MFA at financial institutions, and reached 50%+ of studied customers' traffic within two weeks.
Why it matters
Agent Trust tackles the invisible-agent problem: consumer AI agents that don't self-identify defeat standard bot checks, so enterprises can neither count nor selectively control them. Request-level enforcement plus biometric human confirmation lets businesses block the malicious action without turning away legitimate agent-driven customers.
Applicability
Bot/API-protection customers (finance, retail, travel) should evaluate Agent Trust to inventory consumer agents reaching their properties and to build transaction-level allow/challenge policies before agent traffic scales.