Cequence Platform 9.0 Gives an AI Security Expert to Every Team

Cequence Security, the leader in application, API, and agentic AI protection, is releasing Cequence Platform 9.0, an AI-native release that changes how users interact with API security tools.

According to the company, Platform 9.0 ships with a built-in AI Assistant, an open Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes every platform capability to an organization’s agents or automation workflows, a compliance-ready risk rules library mapped to 25 global regulatory frameworks, and a re-architected API security engine built to handle the largest enterprise API estates without performance degradation.

Unlike vendors that add a simple chatbot to their existing product, Cequence took the opposite approach; the entire platform is AI-native and open, enabling customers to use Cequence's built-in model or one of their choosing.

With Platform 9.0, any practitioner can open a conversation and start asking the questions they care about, without knowing the interface, navigating menus, or understanding how the product works—the platform finds the answers, the company said.

“Most vendors looked at the agentic era and added a chatbot. We looked at it and rebuilt the architecture. Cequence Platform 9.0 exposes the entire Cequence platform through an open MCP architecture so any agent can operate it directly, whether through our built-in AI Assistant, or a customer’s own agent. That is what AI-native actually means: the UI becomes optional. We are building for the way the agentic enterprise already works, while making sure a human approves every change along the way,” said Ameya Talwalkar, CEO and co-founder at Cequence.

Cequence Platform 9.0 ships with a built-in AI Assistant that answers plain-language questions such as “What is my biggest risk right now?” with ranked, evidence-backed findings drawn from live platform data. The Cequence AI Assistant arrives with skills built on years of application, API, and data protection work in high-traffic enterprise environments, able to guide practitioners of all skill levels from day one.

Agent capabilities in Platform 9.0 include:

• Drive valuable actions from simple conversations: use plain-English to easily and quickly drive results. Have the AI Assistant classify APIs, identify risks, draft rules, and create reports, all without navigating the UI.

• Open MCP server: any MCP-capable agent, SOAR platform, or automation workflow can interact with, configure, and pull insights from the platform through an open API contract, with no custom integration, incorporating API security into broader agentic workflows

• Human in the loop: read actions run freely; every proposed write shows the exact change and requires explicit human approval before anything happens

• Full transparency: every answer exposes the AI Assistant’s reasoning and the underlying tool calls; when it lacks a tool for a task, it says so rather than guessing

Platform 9.0 ships the rules, frameworks, and reports to make customers audit-ready immediately, with no professional services and no custom rule development required.

Platform 9.0 includes a complete rebuild of the engine that discovers, catalogs, and scores risk across an organization’s API estate, delivering higher performance at a smaller CPU footprint.

API security engine improvements in Platform 9.0 include:

• 50x increase in API endpoints supported: with sub-five-second page load times across every view regardless of endpoint count

• Reduced compute costs: dramatic CPU footprint improvements translate directly into lower infrastructure costs, especially for on-premises deployments

Cequence Platform 9.0 is immediately available for new customers.

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