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Cequence Security

Protect enterprise APIs, applications, and agentic AI workflows from automated threats, business logic abuse, and rogue autonomous agent actions.

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About Cequence Security

Cequence Security is an enterprise cybersecurity platform designed to protect web applications, APIs, and modern agentic AI environments. As automated traffic and AI agents become more prevalent in corporate workflows, Cequence monitors interactions across humans, bots, and agents. The platform evaluates traffic based on behavioral intent, stopping malicious attacks such as account takeover, content scraping, and business logic abuse while allowing legitimate traffic and authorized autonomous agents to operate unimpeded. The system integrates API security posture management, bot defense, web application and API protection (WAAP), and an AI Gateway. In agentic environments, it implements Zero Trust controls by applying the policy enforcement point pattern. It establishes an OAuth 2.1 authentication entry point, provides backend credential mapping, isolates stateless requests, and imposes per-user and per-tool rate limiting to restrict AI agents strictly to their assigned toolsets and intended operational scope. Cequence is engineered for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), application security engineers, and enterprise security teams operating at massive scale. It specifically addresses organizations across industries like financial services, e-commerce, healthcare, telecommunications, and the public sector facing high-volume transactions and automated threat surfaces. Unlike traditional web application firewalls and basic bot management tools that rely heavily on disruptive CAPTCHAs or static access credentials, Cequence focuses on intent-based behavioral analysis. It specifically addresses the security blind spots created by autonomous and headless AI agents, ensuring that even if an agent possesses legitimate user permissions or the ability to bypass traditional challenges, it cannot exceed its mandated boundaries.

Cequence Security pros & cons

Pros

  • Scales to secure over 10 billion daily application interactions and 200 million agentic interactions.
  • Implements Zero Trust architectures specifically designed for agentic enterprise environments.
  • Reduces reliance on CAPTCHA challenges by 99.3% through behavioral intent analysis.
  • Provides backend credential mapping supporting OAuth, API keys, basic authentication, and pass-through.

Cons

  • Public pricing details are not available online and require contacting sales.
  • Designed primarily for large enterprises, which may introduce complexity for small teams or solo developers.

Cequence Security use cases

  • Enterprise security teams can deploy the AI Gateway to restrict internal AI agents to least-privilege tool access and prevent rogue actions.
  • E-commerce fraud prevention specialists can eliminate content scraping and automated account takeover attempts without disrupting real customer checkouts.
  • AppSec engineers can automatically discover APIs and enforce posture governance to stop BOLA and sensitive data exposure.

Cequence Security features

  • bot management and fraud prevention
  • web application and api protection (waap)
  • account takeover (ato) and bola attack mitigation
  • stateless request isolation and backend credential mapping
  • per-user and per-tool rate limiting for ai agents
  • behavioral intent analysis for human, bot, and agent traffic
  • api discovery and inventory tracking
  • ai gateway with oauth 2.1 front door authentication

Cequence Security FAQs

What is Cequence AI Gateway?

Cequence AI Gateway is an agent gateway policy enforcement point offering an OAuth 2.1 front door for agent authentication. It provides backend credential mapping across OAuth, API keys, and basic authentication, along with per-user, per-tool rate limiting and stateless request isolation.

How does Cequence handle AI agent security?

Cequence enforces Zero Trust principles for AI agents by evaluating them on behavioral intent and verified actions. It limits each enterprise agent to only the tools required for its assigned task, preventing rogue actions and permission misuse.

What threats does the Cequence platform protect against?

The platform blocks automated fraud, account takeover attacks, BOLA and enumeration attacks, content scraping, e-commerce shopping bots, and sensitive data exposure across web, mobile, and API channels.

How can prospective customers test or purchase Cequence?

Organizations can request a personalized product demonstration or contact the enterprise sales team directly through the Cequence website.

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Cequence Security

Technical Support Engineer

operationsonsite JP full-time

Benefits:

  • Health insurance

  • Paid time off

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field or equivalent work experience

Experience Requirements:

  • 5 years of experience working with Cloud service providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP

  • Experience with containerization technologies, like Docker and Kubernetes

  • Experience with AWS including EC2, EKS, Route53, VPC, or the Azure or GCP equivalents

  • Experience with scripting languages, like Python and shell-scripting

  • Prior working experience with L2-L7 networking including experience with security, switching, routing and application delivery products

Other Requirements:

  • Experience with data formats like XML, YAML, and JSON

  • Experience with Linux-based servers

  • Experience with server and configuration provisioning (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet) and source code management tools (Git, Subversion)

  • Experience with web services (nginx/Apache), data pipelining (Kafka, SQS), and data storage (SQL, Elasticsearch) technologies

  • Expert troubleshooting and reasoning skills in all the above technologies

  • Excellent written & oral communication skills with strong interpersonal, organizational and presentation skills

  • Proven experience working on critical/complex system down issue and escalations

Responsibilities:

  • Provide customer facing technical support to our largest accounts in a fast-paced work environment

  • Become a technical expert on Cequence Security solutions

  • Help our customers and partners with deploying Cequence products, on-boarding, and training

  • Manage critical escalations

  • Contribute to the support knowledge base, diagnostic tools, troubleshooting guides, and training curriculums

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Cequence Security

Data plane Engineer

engineeringonsite Pune, IN other

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent field

Experience Requirements:

  • 4-6 years of industry experience

  • C/C++ and/or Golang programming skills combined with one or more scripting languages – Python, Perl, Unix Shell scripting, etc.

  • Experience with any Web Servers, Load Balancers, Web Application Firewalls

Other Requirements:

  • Knowledge of networking and application protocols like TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, DNS

  • Good knowledge of modern Linux or Unix internals, sockets and systems programming

  • Good knowledge of multi-threaded/concurrent programming and distributed systems

  • Understanding of data structures and algorithms

Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop data plane components using C++, Golang and Python as programming languages

  • Develop low latency and high availability solutions with fully automated test suites that work in traditional data centers and public/private clouds

  • Full ownership of your design and development activity by adapting to customer feedback and resolving bugs found in unit testing, system testing and customer deployments

  • Work independently but know when to ask for help, while collaborating within a small team

  • Innovate – product, platform and the process to continuously improve our value proposition to customers

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