Skyfire, the world’s only payment and identity network built for the AI Agent economy, has teamed up with Cequence Security, a leader in API security and bot management, to address a crucial gap in the digital economy. Together, they are enabling secure, compliant access for autonomous AI agents to digital services—unlocking new opportunities for data service providers. As AI agents continue to emerge as the next generation of digital consumers, traditional security measures have struggled to accommodate them. Skyfire and Cequence Security are solving this issue by combining their capabilities to ensure that AI agents can engage with digital services as securely and efficiently as human users.
Transforming Digital Services with AI Agent Verification
1. The Problem with AI Agents and Existing Security Models
AI agents are rapidly becoming key players in the digital world. However, many digital services—from paywalled websites to gated APIs—were originally designed with human users in mind. This means AI agents, which don’t have traditional human credentials, are often blocked by systems designed to prevent scraping, fraud, and abuse.
Without identity and verified credentials, AI agents face barriers that prevent them from interacting with valuable digital content, making it difficult for them to engage in transactions, subscribe to services, or access APIs.
2. Skyfire’s Identity and Payment Infrastructure
Skyfire offers a solution to this problem by providing agent-first infrastructure for identity and payments. With Skyfire, autonomous AI agents can programmatically present verified credentials and payment methods, allowing them to access digital services just like human users. This solution enables secure, peer-to-peer access to everything from public web content to private APIs, without requiring manual account creation or contracts.
Through Skyfire’s protocol, AI agents are assigned programmable wallets with funding sources (such as cards, ACH, wire, USDC), identity credentials, and enterprise-grade payment rules.
3. Cequence’s Bot Management and API Security
Cequence Security, with its expertise in API security and bot management, secures over 8 billion API interactions daily. Its platform protects more than 3 billion user accounts across Fortune 500 companies. Cequence’s technology uses multi-dimensional machine learning to evaluate behavior, context, and intent, distinguishing between bad bots and good bots.
Now, with the Skyfire integration, Cequence can identify trusted Skyfire-verified AI agents, enabling a new level of programmable access to websites, APIs, and applications. This partnership is essential for data service providers, allowing them to monetize AI agents without sacrificing security or performance.
Benefits of the Skyfire-Cequence Partnership
1. Secure, Compliant Access for AI Agents
The collaboration between Skyfire and Cequence Security introduces a new era where AI agents are treated as first-class participants in the digital economy. By recognizing and verifying trusted AI agents, businesses can now confidently serve them—offering secure, compliant access to their services, including subscription-based models, APIs, and paywalled content.
This transformation opens up new revenue streams for businesses and data service providers, enabling them to offer services to both human and AI users without compromising security.
2. Seamless Integration of Identity and Security Protocols
The integration ensures that AI agents can interact with digital services in the same way human users do—while keeping scraping, fraud, and abuse at bay. Cequence’s security platform continuously evaluates the intent and context of each AI interaction, ensuring that the agent is both legitimate and monetizable.
3. Reducing Barriers to AI Agent Interaction
The partnership addresses one of the most pressing issues in the emerging AI economy: the inability of AI agents to interact with the vast majority of digital content behind login walls, compliance layers, or anti-bot protections. By allowing AI agents to be verified and trusted, businesses can now open the door to autonomous transactions, subscriptions, bookings, and purchases.
The Future of API Security and AI Agent Access
As AI agents become increasingly important players in the digital world, the future of API security is evolving. What was once focused on preventing attackers is now expanding to include recognizing and securing trusted automation. Cequence Security is paving the way for this shift with its advanced security platform that is capable of not only blocking malicious traffic but also recognizing trusted, verified AI agents.
“Security should never be a barrier to business,” said Ameya Talwalkar, CEO of Cequence. “Through this partnership with Skyfire, we now have a shared framework to verify and trust additional non-human users at the edge, unlocking a new era where businesses can serve AI agents securely, seamlessly, and at scale.”
The Skyfire-Cequence Security partnership marks a pivotal moment in the AI agent economy, enabling autonomous agents to securely access digital services while protecting businesses from the threats of scraping and fraud. By combining Skyfire’s identity and payment infrastructure with Cequence’s advanced bot management and API security, the two companies are creating a safer, more efficient environment for AI agents to interact with the digital world.
This collaboration unlocks new opportunities for data service providers and paves the way for the future of secure AI transactions and autonomous interactions.
