In the web security context, traffic from proxies is often considered high-risk because threat actors frequently use them to load-balance traffic through multiple IP addresses, in an attempt to evade detection while preserving their anonymity. In this article, we’ll review the importance of proxies in the internet ecosystem, discuss methods of detection, and conclude on the relevance of identifying proxies in today’s threat landscape.

The industry's transformation to support agentic is just starting. This article describes some of the new standards, their role in enabling the agentic commerce and supporting the publishing and media industry through the transformation. Bot management and fraud detection product play a key role to facilitate the transformation but ultimately much will depend on AI agent and AI platform adopting the newly proposed standards.

The trend for 2026: Agentic commerce standard will evolve and consolidate into models that AI platforms will start to adopt. Botnets will remain evasive, but the complexity and cost of the infrastructure and maintenance will continue to rise if they want to ensure continuous service. progress will be made in defining the concept of intent to better categorize bot traffic.

Some of the content of this article was initially published as a white paper that I authored for Akamai Technologies , and has been refreshed with additional insight and perspective. The world needs data to function, whether to drive business decisions, train large language models (LLMs) to develop new applications, make information on various topics more accessible, enable academics to study how society evolves and human behavior, study price inflation, research for public s

This article provides deep insight into the mechanics of the account opening abuse, how fraudsters are organized, and ways to detect and defend against them.