Can your shopping bot be trusted? How Visa will ensure scam-free AI transactions

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Visa and Akami aim to secure agentic transactions. 
• It's another layer of protection for AI-led shopping.
• AI shopping experiences create new security risks. 
  

If you've been holiday shopping online, you may have noticed that this year, you have the option to use AI like a shopping assistant. This is just one step toward the ultimate goal of autonomous, agentic AI transactions -- which, while convenient, open up a whole new set of vulnerabilities.

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Visa and cybersecurity company Akamai Technologies are collaborating to address a significant pain point in agentic commerce: verifying whether the bot conducting the transaction was sent by a human or is a malicious actor. The partnership, announced Wednesday, utilizes ...