API Security,
Bot Management,
and AI Protection

Protect what connects you.

Cequence protects an organization’s applications and APIs from attacks, business logic abuse, fraud, and AI, with unified API discovery, compliance, and application protection.
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Making applications agent-ready in minutes – securely, without coding

The Cequence AI Gateway enables organizations to unlock the promise of agentic AI productivity by easily and safely connecting agents to enterprise and SaaS applications.
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MCP-enable applications in minutes, without coding

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Cequence Explained in 2 Minutes

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Cequence Security Explained in 2 Minutes

In today’s connected world, our applications need to work together seamlessly…fetching information, translating it through AI, and delivering it…all while keeping our data secure.

But these connections create security challenges. Unknown or unsecured APIs open the door for bot attacks, leading to infrastructure strain, revenue loss from account takeover attacks, scraped data, and fraud. And blocking bot traffic without precision could accidentally shut out the good traffic—cutting off access to your applications and leaving your business behind.

We believe that securing your connections can enable your applications to leap into the AI age intelligently, meeting the demands of your customers, and fueling your growth.

Meet Cequence—a new breed of intelligent security solutions that protects the critical connections powering your applications, from APIs to agentic AI.

Through our unique network-based approach, Cequence analyzes your traffic with real-time behavioral fingerprinting to detect and stop the most sophisticated attacks.

See risks through the lens of an attacker, so you can quickly prioritize and fix what matters most.

Our foundational strength is protecting your applications and APIs from attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud — all while making it possible to safely extend agentic AI access to enterprise and SaaS applications.

But don’t take our word for it. Top telecom, banking, and retail companies already trust Cequence to protect 10B connections daily.

Cequence. Advanced API Security, Bot Defense, and AI Protection – Protect what connects you.

Meet Cequence—a new breed of intelligent solutions that secure the critical connections powering your applications, APIs, and AI. Watch the video for a 2 minute summary of how Cequence protects what connects you.

Bring the Power of Cequence Protection to Your Organization

Organizations of all sizes and verticals benefit from the collective experience of our customer base. Analyzing billions of anomalous, suspicious, and malicious transactions each day fuels our threat research and informs our machine learning models, constantly improving the real-time protection afforded to our customers’ applications and APIs.
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10B

daily API interactions secured

4B

user accounts safeguarded

1 in 15

global mobile users protected

Simple solutions targeting complex threats

Complex API and bot threats need powerful but simple solutions. Explore some of the common use cases for both below.
API Security

API Security

Provides vision into the API attack surface and the risk it represents; tests APIs for conformance to specification; protects APIs from attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud.
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API
Discovery

Internal, external, and third-party API attack surface assessment.
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API Security Posture Mgmt

Adhere to internal governance and external regulatory compliance.
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API Security Testing

Test APIs to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and coding errors.
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BOLA
Attacks

Put an end to critical authentication coding errors.
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Business Logic Abuse

Detect application workflows that are vulnerable to manipulation.
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Sensitive Data Exposure

Prevent damaging data loss.
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Bot Management

Bot Management

Protects applications by detecting automated threats and attacks, then mitigates through blocking, rate-limiting, header injection, or deception.
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Account
Takeover

Curtail ATO attacks to limit downstream fraud and theft.
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E-Commerce
Bots

Protect customers and end automated inventory fraud and hoarding.
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Content
Scraping

Stop intellectual property loss and data extraction.
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Unified API Protection

Unified Application Protection

Cequence unifies API discovery, compliance, and protection capabilities in a single, powerful platform to defend applications and APIs against attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud.
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Cequence Product Family

Cequence solutions enable organizations to realize the full capabilities of their applications, APIs, and data without fear of attacks, business logic abuse, or fraud. A deep understanding of application and API behavior makes Cequence uniquely qualified to safely and securely enable agentic AI access, allowing enterprises to unlock the promise of AI-fueled productivity and growth. Cequence’s integrated solutions ensure compliance with governance, security, and access policies, enabling organizations to maximize focus on their true mission.
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Bot Management

Bot Management

Bot Detection, Mitigation, and Fraud Prevention
API Security

API Security

API Security Posture Management, Compliance, Testing, and Remediation
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AI Gateway

Securely AI-Enable Enterprise Applications and Data

Industry Leaders Trust Cequence

“Through the Cequence UAP solution and managed services, our security team was able to achieve an application security defense-in-depth approach that provided comprehensive security to defend our entire application portfolio.”
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Video Transcript: Ulta Beauty Customer Testimonial

My name is Diane Brown and I work for Ulta beauty, I’ve been there for 14 years.

API security is very importand and that’s one of the things that’s been on our road for 2022.

We are currently out a path to change our e-commerce platform and we decided to go more microservice like everybody else.

That is the go forward patch give the business the agility they need to continue to drive revenue but with that also comes the API world, the world of API.

The question we asked Team today. How many do you think we have? And they’re like, eah, well, maybe 100. I’m like, I think we’re going to be surprised.

I think that we think it’s one number because that’s what we ourselves introduced, but now with SaaS, it’s so easy for the business partner with people and get this set up without a lot of IT involvement.

And I think things are going more unnoticed than they had in the past, like with Log4J that came out, I think that was an eye opener for the entire world becasue it was so hard to find.
And even your different partners that you delt with they didn’t even know they had Log4J in their tools or in their solutions.

We’re finding these things out later in life and it’s more difficult for us to stay ahead and manage that that’s why having partners coming up with tools for us that help us in this microservices journey path we’re on right now, it’s kind of scary.

Lots of things that are new out there, but with this API security, the Spyder API security, we’re really hoping that we can get in there and help ease our mind when it comes to our customer and the data.

It’s all the customer data and making sure we’re protecting our guests.

So precursor for us, looking at a bot manangement solution actually was the whole account takeover and the fact that the business thought that we need to help our guests and experience that they have.

At that time we were really new to the whole bot management so what we did is we first started tweaking our web application firewall and we found out that was a lot of work, and it doesn’t really work as well, we’re like ok there’s got to be another solution out there.

Security vendors in general all start with that statement is they can look through the eyes of the CISO and what their role is.

We get contacted all the time by your competitors and they’re like, What do we need to do? What do we need to do? And at this point, the team is like we’re not even looking.
We struggle with organized crime, as with most retailers in how to actually get ahead of the game. We hae fragrances in our stores. Everybody loves fragrances. They’re, you know, quite expensive.

And we get people that come in there around a quarter to nine at night right before the store closes and clean us out.
And we were actually able to find using Cequence, a web scraping tool that was actually scraping inventory at our stores trying to decide which of the stores had a lot of inventory for fragrance.
And because Cequence was able to find that, we were able to tie that together with some of the organized crime had been happening in that area.

And they were actually able to provide information to the authorities. And as a CISO that’s one thing I look for is like how do I continue to value out of a partnership, without just having to continue to lay out money?

You know, I can pay for things, that’s really easy to hand people money, but money doesn’t alwasy get you that value and get you that value add.

And I think that’s one of the great things with the partnership with Cequence is that value add that we get and I feel that they’re, the team at Cequence is an extension of our Ulta team.

“We chose Cequence because they were doing things differently. The approach was different than what we were seeing elsewhere in the market. We went from two weeks to protect a single API to 30 minutes to protect an entire domain that could be thousands of APIs.”
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Video Transcript: Poshmark on Preventing Account Takeovers and Bot Protection

I’m director of what we call the digital platform enablement, which includes our API Center for Enablement, as well as our digital platform services. And I’ve been with T-Mobile for 25 years. The industry has changed drastically over that time period. Everything has gone from being in-person retail experiences to more digital, internet-based, web-based experiences. We are focused primarily on how the customer interacts with us, whereas before it was all people-based.

Now it’s becoming more and more internet-based or digital-based. It’s completely changed the dynamic. Go back ten, twenty years ago, all this stuff was paper. We remember the credit card machines where they slide the thing over the takes a copy of your credit card information. Not terribly secure, but you have, it’s something you have to physically go and get.

Whereas nowadays that’s not the case. Everything’s electronic, everything’s stored somewhere. Top three priorities for mitigating risk: Being secure from the get go. Building secure solutions out of the gate. Going in and fixing tech debt. Addressing that tech debt as fast as possible. And preventing it. And then being agile. Just being agile to not only the shifting needs of the business, but the shifting landscape of the threats that come in from outside and even inside to make our lives better.

It’s getting ahead of the curve. These attackers are constantly evolving. I think back to the story I read – it’s probably a couple of years ago, and it was about somebody who hacked into a casino and the way they did it, is they accessed the Wi-Fi water temperature thermometer in the fish tank of the casino and then wormed their way past the security into the casino’s Wi-Fi network and then ultimately violated their computer systems.

That level of thinking coming from these attackers is just crazy in my mind. And so it’s being ahead of that curve, thinking like they would or they do. So we can be ahead of where they’re going and prevent the attacks before they come up with them or prevent those threat vectors before they come up with them.

“After implementing the Cequence UAP solution, we were able to block automated attacks in real time before they reached our applications. This enabled us to ensure that only legitimate users were on our platform.”
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Video Transcript: Poshmark on Preventing Account Takeovers and Bot Protection

I’m senior director, security engineering, and I’m really responsible for all aspects of security at Poshmark. The growth in APIs has had a huge impact on security. Apps are available to public, the business functionalities are expanding and the bad actors are really trying to abuse the API functionality to do account takeovers, fraud or commit any other fraud across the industry. Some of the things we see is the content integrity. We want to make sure that appropriate content is posted. The second one we see is, we are an e-commerce platform. We want to minimize any financial risks settling audits, right, be it credit card fraud, account takeovers, what have you. This is something that we are seeing across the e-commerce space. We are using Cequence primarily for bot defense, and some use cases are ATOs, reducing bots on our high performing APIs. Before Cequence, there were bot attacks where we could not really respond. After Cequence, we had this tool which helped us respond to most of the attacks, and as we matured Cequence, Cequence is able to automatically block 80 to 90% of the traffic. Right now we have the confidence that we have a bot solution that would work for us, that will scale for us. We had outages because of bots, right? We have reduced our outages which has directly or indirectly improved user experience and conversion rates. And we have reduced ATOs which improve our reputation because Cequence is responding to 80% of the traffic automatically. The security engineers are working less and less on the bots. Cequence is helping business and security. From a business standpoint, we have better availability now and we have better customer satisfaction because we don’t see any account takeovers, what have you. From a security standpoint, because our account takeovers are reduced, there is less data leakage and security folks are able to focus on other priorities. Bots have more moved away from Poshmark platform and 80 to 90% of the traffic is automatically reduced. I would say at least one FTE is reduced who was working on bots. From an operational standpoint, we required less compute, because a lot of bots are getting blocked on the bot solution. Cequence definitely helped reduce bots. We are able to sleep better at night and we are confident that if the new bot comes in we can respond to those bots.
Some of the most notable companies worldwide trust Cequence to protect their applications, their infrastructure, and their revenue from the risks associated with API vulnerabilities and bot attacks. But we don’t just protect the largest companies – our solution secures applications and APIs from attack for companies large and small.

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Technology Fast 500 Award
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Global Infosec Awards Winner - Cyber Defense Magazine - 2024
The Cyber - Top 20
Datos Insights vendor evaluation - Best in Class - API Security
Globee Awards Bronze Winner - Cybersecurity 2023
Cyber Security Excellence Gold Winner 2023
Cyber Security Excellence Silver Winner 2023
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Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award 2023
CISO Choice Awards - API Security finalist 2022
The ON24 Experience
Tracxn Emerging Awards
Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award 2023
SINET16 Innovator 2021
TAG Cyber Distinguished Vendor 2021

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