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Visa and Akami aim to secure agentic transactions.
It's another layer of protection for AI-led shopping.
AI shopping experiences create new security risks.
If you've been holiday shopping online, you may have noticed that this year, you have the option to use AI like a shopping assistant. This is just one step toward the ultimate goal of autonomous, agentic AI transactions -- which, while convenient, open up a whole new set of vulnerabilities.
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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.
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