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Akamai and Visa Collaborate to Build Trust in Agentic Commerce
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & SAN FRANCISCO, December 17, 2025--Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today announced a strategic collaboration with Visa (NYSE: V) to bring stronger identity, user recognition, and security controls to the emerging world of agentic commerce. Through its integration of Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai’s edge-based behavioral intelligence, user recognition, and bot and abuse p
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