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Cequence Security's Zero Trust Approach to AI Security Becomes the Industry StandardSANTA CLARA, Calif., June 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cequence Security, the leader in application, API, and Agentic AI protection, today highlighted a significant convergence in the AI security industry. In a striking show of consensus, three leading voices in AI security, Anthropic, Dr. Chase Cunningham, and Cequence Security, have independently converged on a shared conviction: the biggest risk with AI agents isn’t access, it’s what they do once they’re in. Anthropic’s recently published frameworks, Dr. Cunningham’s Agentic Zero Trust research, and Cequence’s AI Gateway architecture all emphasize the need to focus security efforts on controlling agent behavior, not just authentication. The key insight driving this convergence is that conventional security tools fixate on the login action, but for AI agents that can think, act, and cause damage autonomously, that’s guarding the wrong door. The real risk is an agent misusing legitimate access to take harmful actions, manipulate APIs, or exfiltrate data. That’s the security gap Cequence’s AI Gateway was purpose-built to close, by extending zero trust principles to cover not just who the agent is, but what it does. "Most security teams are still trying to tackle AI risk with prompt detection and short-lived tokens – basically, really tight sign-in security. But that misses the point entirely. You can nail authentication and still get burned by an agent running amok inside the castle,” said Shreyans Mehta, CTO at Cequence Security. “Anthropic, Dr. Cunningham, and Cequence all recognized early on that the gamechanger is securing agent behavior. Seeing the whole industry pivot hard toward that truth, toward the approach we baked into the AI Gateway from day one, is the ultimate validation. It crowns the AI Gateway as the new reference architecture for the space.” "Traditional security controls focus obsessively on the front gate – who gets in. But with AI agents, the real damage happens after the front gate, through totally authorized channels," said Dr. Chase Cunningham, a leading expert on Zero Trust security. "You have to extend zero trust inside, to cover not just authentication, but every action an agent takes. Cequence’s AI Gateway is a huge leap toward that goal, toward getting zero trust to fully cover the AI agent threat model.” The Behavior Convergence They also agree that behavioral monitoring and policy enforcement must be dynamic and real-time, because AI agents can chain together individually legitimate steps into harmful patterns too complex to predict in advance. The line between good behavior and bad must be redrawn constantly, reactively, in the moment. Extending CIS Controls to Cover AI Agent Behavior "The CIS MCP Companion Guide defines what enterprises should do; the Cequence AI Gateway operationalizes it," said Mehta. "The guide calls for explicit tool-level permissions, auditable interactions, and real-time sensitive data protection. AI Gateway delivers by generating least-privilege agent personas, logging every API call, and applying DLP scanning to tool requests and responses. It takes the CIS framework from theory to practice." Why Securing AI Agent Behavior Matters Now At the same time, AI-powered attacks are drastically compressing threat timelines. What used to take adversaries months now takes hours. That means defenders have to spot and block threats in real time. Security must live where the agents live, at the level of API calls and data flows, in the moment, at machine speed. Cequence’s AI Gateway delivers by extending zero trust security into the heart of agent operations – every API call, every data flow, every decision point, continuously analyzed and gated by find-grained policy. Questionable agent actions are surfaced, scored, and blocked immediately, before damage is done. Resources
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