Company: Cequence Security
Founders: Ameya Talwalkar (CEO), Shreyans Mehta (CTO)
Website: https://www.cequence.ai
About Cequence Security
It’s not often that a business sees its product line over time consistently fulfil the vision that the company was founded upon. Cequence Security has always been a trailblazer that has consistently anticipated and responded to change. When it started in 2014, the company helped enterprises protect their applications from malicious bots with a unique network-based solution for ease of deployment and behavioural analysis. This meant that, when attackers began to target APIs, its bot solution was ideally placed to counter the threat. The API Security solution was then added over the same architecture to offer maximum protection.
But spearheading solutions has not been easy. The company has had to expound upon the unique challenges associated with these new technologies, simultaneously educating and seeding the market. It’s had to explain the need for dedicated API security as opposed to adapted web application solutions. The need for a unified API solution that could offer not just discovery but also compliance and application protection to protect businesses as API use exploded. And, more recently, explain and mitigate the risk posed by agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as organisations plough investment into AI.
The company launched its AI Gateway back in July to address the problem of organisations lacking the tools to safely and securely connect their enterprise applications to AI agents. While teams may find it relatively straightforward to build prototypes that make their applications AI-ready using available MCP server tooling, they’re getting into difficulty when it comes to scaling, authenticating, and securing those connections.
The Cequence Security AI Gateway stands out because it is a no-code solution that quickly and easily makes internal and SaaS applications AI agent accessible, while providing enterprise-class scale, authentication, and monitoring and logging. Agentic AI uses MCP servers to communicate with applications and retrieve tools and data from different sources but those MCP servers can be prone to data leakage, used for man-in-the-middle attacks, for sideband compromise or prompt injection attacks, making them a potential security threat.
The Cequence AI Gateway enables the organisation to monitor AI to API traffic by tracking agent and user behaviour, which applications are being accessed and which API calls are being made via by which agents. However, it also provides the business with the ability to create its own MCP server/s within the platform, avoiding the build costs, complexity and security implications associated with custom AI projects, many of which are expected to result in a mountain of technical debt.
Today, Cequence Security has stayed true to its roots by protecting applications and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from numerous attack types be that bot attacks, business logic abuse, fraud or AI. It now safeguards over four billion user accounts and protects one in every 15 mobile users on the planet. But crucially, its analysis of over ten billion anomalous, suspicious, and malicious transactions a day continue to fuel its research and inform machine learning models, ensuring it keeps pace with the evolving threat landscape.
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