India, Dec. 18 -- Agentic commerce security is becoming a central concern for digital merchants as autonomous AI agents increasingly browse, compare, and transact across online storefronts. A new collaboration between Akamai Technologies and Visa is aimed at addressing identity verification, user recognition, and security challenges associated with this emerging commerce model.

The integration combines Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai's edge-based behavioural intelligence, user recognition, and bot and abuse protection capabilities. The companies say the goal is to give merchants stronger identity, authentication, and fraud controls as AI agents take on more active roles in commerce workflows.

As AI agents begin interacting dir...