USE CASE

AI Protection and Security

Making Your Business AI Ready

Enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) – both generative AI (GenAI) and agentic AI – brings powerful business benefits, but also introduces new risks. Cequence helps discover AI use and assess its adherence to relevant governance and compliance while ensuring sensitive data, intellectual property, and machine learning models are properly protected.

AI Runs on APIs

GenAI and agentic AI are deeply connected, each powering the other. Together, they form workflows that drive powerful new capabilities.

GenAI accepts user prompts and generates responses.
Agentic AI uses those responses to take action within workflows.
The two reinforce each other, powering dynamic and autonomous processes.

Most third-party AI tools are delivered via SaaS or on-premises models, and APIs are the primary – often the only – way to interact with them. That makes it essential to ensure these APIs and the sensitive data they handle are discovered, monitored, and protected.

AI Offers New Opportunities – and New Risks

Cequence customers are using our platform to improve customer satisfaction, reduce administrative efforts, prevent compliance violations and positively impact overall revenue.
Key questions often go unasked, let alone answered:

Monitoring

What applications and APIs are using or being used by AI?

Sensitive Data

Is sensitive data being shared inappropriately both with and via AI?

Compliance

Do we have proper controls governing AI use, including API documentation?

Testing AI APIs

Are we testing our AI APIs for governance, risk, and compliance?

Protection

Are we protecting our Large Language Models (LLMs) from malicious access?

Securely connect AI agents to your enterprise applications, without coding, in minutes.

The Cequence AI Gateway unlocks the promise of agentic AI productivity by easily and safely connecting agents to enterprise and SaaS applications.

Cequence Makes Your Business AI Ready

Cequence’s network-based approach monitors all API transactions to protect against superpowered AI bot attacks, unwanted IP scraping, and sensitive data exposure. It requires no application modification and can mitigate issues in real time, ensuring your business is AI ready.

Discover

In cybersecurity, we often say that we can’t protect what we can’t see, and that definitely applies here. To safely use either GenAI or agentic AI with a known quantity of risk, one must first understand where it’s being used. Cequence discovery identifies and inventories all APIs in use, whether they are internal, external, or third-party.

Comply

As organizations mature, they usually put internal governance in place – their own as well as applicable regulatory governance. For example, some organizations forbid their software engineers from using external AI to help write source code due to intellectual property concerns. Other organizations might allow AI use for marketing purposes but prohibit any sharing of sensitive data. Cequence actively monitors API transactions (including GenAI and agentic AI APIs) for inappropriate sensitive data flows.

Protect

There are two sides of the protection coin that deserve our attention. On one side, we want to protect the organization’s intellectual property, infrastructure, and systems from malicious AI. On the other side, we need to protect the organization’s own AI from malicious tampering and manipulation.

Protection from AI

For AI to deliver on its promise, it must “learn” with training data. However, that doesn’t mean your organization has signed up to freely provide access to its intellectual property without discussion or compensation.

Protection for AI

An organization’s sanctioned AI use must also be protected from abuse, excessive costs, and inappropriate or malicious activity.

Block AI Scraping Bots
Cequence leverages a continuously updated global list to detect and block AI bot activity – no configuration required.

Stop Business Logic Abuse
Prevent AI-enhanced attacks from misusing legitimate APIs for fraud or exploitation.

LLM Protection
Cequence uses AI to autonomously generate threat-mitigation policies, blocking attacks natively or via integrations (e.g., WAF) in seconds instead of minutes.

Prevent Denial-of-Wallet
Monitor and meter usage against enterprise policies to stop runaway costs from misconfigurations, errors, or malicious activity.

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Securing Agentic AI with Cequence and AWS

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