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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
Winning Accelerator Playbook 2026 by BambuUP
EDTECH: LEVERAGING AI-POWERED TECHNOLOGIES TO TRANSFORM THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
1. Technology overview
Cequence Security is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Santa Clara, California that governs human, bot and AI agent interactions with applications and APIs. It focuses on fraud, abuse and account takeover, and its release states it protects more than 10 billion daily API interactions and 4 billion user accounts.
The platform combines Bot Management, API Security, WAAP and an AI Gateway. The October 2026 Agent Trust capability keeps an inventory of detected agents, verifies identity through an issuer registry and applies transaction-level policies. Customers named on the site include docomo, Poshmark, Ulta Beauty and Garmin.
2. Highlighted features & specifications
- Bot Management: protection against automated attacks and fraud.
- Agent Trust: live inventory of agents, including those that do not identify themselves.
- Intent Graph: behavioral profiles that separate real agents from impostors using stolen tokens.
- Transaction-level enforcement: block, rate-limit or challenge specific actions.
- API Security and AI Gateway: API discovery, testing and agent governance.
3. Potential application
A Vietnamese bank can protect login and password-reset APIs of its mobile app from credential stuffing. A telco or e-commerce platform can control which AI agents may access pricing and checkout endpoints.
4. Benefits
Blocks account takeover and automated abuse while letting legitimate agents continue their tasks. Policies act on individual risky requests such as account email changes, with account holder confirmation on their own device. Covers bots and APIs in one platform.
5. Market trends & opportunities
AI agents now browse and transact on behalf of customers, and many present as ordinary browsers, which strains bot defenses built on user-agent checks. Vietnamese banks and e-commerce platforms exposing APIs to apps and partners face the same blend of bot abuse and agent traffic.
6. Other information
Headquartered at 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, California. Industries served include financial services, retail and telecom; docomo is listed as a customer. Founding year is not stated on fetched pages.
