Experian and Akamai Team Up to Secure Trusted AI-Driven Commerce
Experian has taken another major step in its push to make AI-driven commerce safe and accountable. The global data and technology company announced that Akamai Technologies has joined its growing Experian Agent Trust partner ecosystem, deepening a framework designed to bring verifiable identity and fraud protection to autonomous AI transactions.
Building Trust at the Edge of Agentic Commerce
The Experian Agent Trust Akamai partnership works by combining Experian’s identity-issuing capabilities with Akamai’s independent security layer. Experian issues an Agent Trust token that validates identity, consent, delegated authority, and transaction risk in real time, while Akamai extends this model with trust evaluation and enforcement at the edge of digital networks.
Together, the two companies aim to help businesses authenticate AI agents and better protect digital commerce environments as autonomous transactions become the norm.
Experian’s solutions already help clients avoid an estimated $15 to $19 billion in fraud losses annually, and the Experian Agent Trust Akamai partnership now extends that expertise into the fast-growing world of agentic commerce where AI agents search, decide, and buy on behalf of consumers without direct human input at each step.
Both companies are active members of the KYAPay initiative, an extension of the Know Your Agent protocol that introduces a standardized way to declare agent intent and enables tokenized payment credentials to support secure, seamless agent-driven commerce experiences.
The broader Agent Trust ecosystem already includes Visa, Cloudflare, and Skyfire, with Experian’s identity capabilities designed to complement Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol, supporting a layered framework for trust and secure agentic payments.
As Experian’s Chief Innovation Officer Kathleen Peters put it, agentic commerce will not scale without trust and this latest addition to the ecosystem signals the industry is taking that challenge very seriously. Full details are available via Business Wire and Experian’s official blog
