APIs have become the backbone of modern digital transformation, powering everything from mobile apps to customer portals. But with that innovation comes risk. Security teams face significant challenges in protecting API applications, especially with their rapid deployment across multiple cloud environments. Unmanaged and unprotected APIs often expose critical vulnerabilities, while inconsistent security postures across the application landscape add further complexity and risk.

Cequence Security’s UAP platform helps organizations gain visibility into their API traffic, ensure API compliance, test for security gaps, and stop automated threats such as credential stuffing, scraping, and fake account creation. While doing so, the Platform also ensures that it does not block good bots, alter development cycles, or disrupt the business or user experience.

“Our customers are under pressure to secure their APIs, manage risk, and meet growing compliance demands across geographies,” said Geetanjali Sethi, President – Strategy and Growth at Inspira. “By partnering with Cequence, we’re expanding our portfolio to offer API security and bot protection as a fully managed service, combining cutting-edge technology with our global expertise and 24/7 operational support.”

“Cequence is proud to join Inspira’s trusted partner ecosystem, helping them bring outcome-driven API protection and bot mitigation to customers worldwide. Customers can now detect and stop sophisticated API attacks, enhance API governance and security testing, improve visibility and response time, secure APIs during open banking transitions, and meet stringent data sovereignty requirements,” the company said in a statement.

“This partnership is rooted in delivering real outcomes,” said Arun Gowda, VP of Business Development at Cequence Security. “With Cequence, customers already get a world-class platform to secure their APIs and defend against automated attacks. Now, paired with Inspira’s global reach and service capabilities, organizations can consume the platform as a managed service, enabling faster implementation, management, and threat monitoring.”

As part of the partnership, Inspira is augmenting its cybersecurity portfolio with industry-leading API security and bot management capabilities, offering not only the Cequence Platform but also the managed security services wrapped around it. Inspira will provide expert deployment, advisory support, ongoing monitoring, and full lifecycle threat management to help customers adopt and operate the solution with ease. The joint offering delivers a full-stack approach to API protection and bot defense, backed by Inspira’s white-glove service model and global Cyber Fusion Centers.

There is no AI without APIs, and the rapid growth of agentic AI applications has amplified concerns about securing sensitive data during their interactions. These AI-driven exchanges can inadvertently expose internal systems, create significant vulnerabilities, and jeopardize valuable data assets. Recognising this critical challenge, Cequence has expanded its UAP platform, introducing an enhanced security layer to govern interactions between AI agents and backend services specifically. This new layer of security enables customers to detect and prevent AI bots such as ChatGPT from OpenAI and Perplexity from harvesting organizational data.

Internal telemetry across Global 2000 deployments shows that the overwhelming majority of AI-related bot traffic, nearly 88%, originates from large language model infrastructure, with most requests obfuscated behind generic or unidentified user agents. Less than 4% of this traffic is transparently attributed to bots like GPTBot or Gemini. Over 97% of it comes from U.S.-based IP addresses, highlighting the concentration of risk in North American enterprises. Cequence’s ability to detect and govern this traffic in real time, despite the lack of clear identifiers, reinforces the platform’s unmatched readiness for securing agentic AI in the wild.

Key enhancements to Cequence’s UAP platform include:

• Block unauthorized AI data harvesting: Understanding that external AI often seeks to learn by broadly collecting data without obtaining permission, Cequence provides organizations with the critical capability to manage which AI, if any, can interact with their proprietary information.
• Detect and prevent sensitive data exposure: Empowers organizations to effectively detect and prevent sensitive data exposure across all forms of agentic AI. This includes safeguarding against external AI harvesting attempts and securing data within internal AI applications. The platform’s intelligent analysis automatically differentiates between legitimate data access during normal application usage and anomalous activities signaling sensitive data exfiltration, ensuring comprehensive protection against AI-related data loss.
• Discover and manage shadow AI: Automatically discovers and classifies APIs from agentic AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce, presenting a unified view alongside customers’ internal and third-party APIs. This comprehensive visibility empowers organizations to easily manage these interactions and effectively detect and block sensitive data leaks, whether from external AI harvesting or internal AI usage.
• Seamless integration: Integrates easily into DevOps frameworks for discovering internal AI applications and generates OpenAPI specifications that detail API schemas and security mechanisms, including strong authentication and security policies. Cequence delivers powerful protection without relying on third-party tools, while seamlessly integrating with the customer’s existing cybersecurity ecosystem. This simplifies management and security enforcement.

“Gartner predicts that by 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously. We’ve taken immediate action to extend our market-leading API security and bot management capabilities,” said Ameya Talwalkar, CEO of Cequence. “Agentic AI introduces a new layer of complexity, where every agent behaves like a bidirectional API. That’s our wheelhouse. Our platform helps organizations embrace innovation at scale without sacrificing governance, compliance, or control.”

These extended capabilities will be generally available in June.