Why the Security Controls Built Into LLMs Aren’t Enough
LLM vendors are increasingly building security features and guardrails into their models. However, the controls inside the model are designed for a contained, request-response world. A user sends a prompt, and the ...
When the Token Theft Hides in Plain Sight: Why Agent Containment Stops the Claude Code MCP Attack
Researchers at Mitiga Labs recently demonstrated a five-step attack that quietly hijacks Claude Code’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic and steals the OAuth bearer tokens that grant access to platforms like Jira, ...
The Market Arrived. We Were Already Here: Cequence Posts Record Quarter on Surging Agentic AI Security Demand
There’s a moment in every technology cycle when the market stops asking “what if” and starts asking “how fast.” For agentic AI security, that moment is now. And for Cequence, Q4 FY26 ...
The Success Penalty: Why Bot Defense Pricing Is Breaking
Your business didn’t grow 40%. Your customers didn’t grow 40%. Your revenue didn’t grow 40%. But your bot traffic did. And if your bot defense contract is priced on total traffic, your ...
2026 Verizon DBIR: AI Bot Threats vs. API Layer Attacks
Every year, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report gives the security industry a shared set of facts to argue about. This year’s edition is no different, and the AI threat numbers are ...
Agents are the new channel. Behavior is still the only signal that matters.
Every few years, the enterprise opens a new channel. The web. Mobile. APIs. Each one expanded the surface where customers could transact, and each one brought threats the previous generation of security ...
A Reference Architecture for Containing Agents: What Cequence Built and Anthropic Arrived At Independently
Two searches are running hot in every enterprise security team right now. One is for prompt injection detection. The other is for a gateway that handles agent tool access through delegated identity ...
What Happens When Your Entire Company Learns AI Together? We Found Out.
Creative Ideas Born from Shared Challenges At Cequence, we did something a little unusual at our Sales Kick-off this year. We ran a company-wide AI hackathon — and the rule was simple: ...
Agentic AI Does Not Mean Abandoning Zero Trust
For the last several years, security leaders have wrestled with a difficult question: how do you embrace AI-driven progress without creating massive new security risks? As one of the founding fathers of ...
What the Verizon 2026 DBIR says about bots, APIs, and the AI threat surge
The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) lands with some numbers that are hard to sit with if you’re in the business of defending web applications, APIs, and data. AI-driven bot ...
