Experian has expanded its ecosystem to advance trusted AI commerce through a new partnership with Akamai Technologies. This partnership will enhance the security and scalability of digital transactions. Additionally, it is helping the increasing importance of AI agents in the commerce environment.
As AI agents increasingly handle transactions, businesses face rising trust challenges. For this reason, the company has developed a trust solution called Agent Trust™ that will assist in identifying and assigning responsibility. With this, it becomes easier to minimize any fraud while conducting AI commerce. Also, Akamai plays a significant role in this trust framework due to its edge computing and cybersecurity skills. It delivers security, tracks the agent’s actions, and defends transactions in real-time.
“Trust, security, and performance must scale alongside the growing role of AI agents in digital commerce,” said Kathleen Peters, Chief Innovation Officer at Experian. “Agentic commerce will not scale without trust. By adding Akamai to our partner ecosystem, we are strengthening the infrastructure to verify agents, the humans behind them, and their intent, enabling fast, secure, and accountable transactions. This reflects strong momentum across our ecosystem as we bring together leaders in identity, payments, and cybersecurity to shape the future of digital commerce.”
Strengthening Trust in AI-Driven Commerce
Moreover, the company, Akamai, and Skyfire are also part of the KYAPay movement. KYAPay is a standard that guarantees secure payments and provides clear guidelines on agent intentions. Hence, companies will be able to verify artificial intelligence agents and make sure transactions are secure. There is also the integration of a human-to-agent binding protocol. It links up authenticated humans, devices, and AI agents. In this way, enterprises can consistently trust their AI-based commercial systems.
“Agent-driven commerce introduces a new set of security expectations for businesses and consumers,” said Akamai’s Patrick Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer, Security Strategy. “Our work with Experian brings together identity intelligence and edge security so organizations can confidently interact with AI agents while maintaining performance and trust across every touchpoint.”
“Standardizing how AI agents declare intent and transact is key to unlocking the full potential of agentic commerce,” said Amir Sarhangi, CEO and co-founder of Skyfire. “Through our collaboration in Experian’s partner ecosystem and the KYAPay initiative, we enable secure, tokenized payments that unify identity, authorization, and execution in a trusted framework.”
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