Largest deal in company history, expanding wins across Japan, the Middle East, and the Americas reinforce growing enterprise demand for AI-native application and API protection
Cequence Security has announced record momentum in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, closing its strongest quarter on record along with the largest deal in company history as enterprises accelerate adoption of agentic AI technologies across critical sectors worldwide.
The company said rising demand from telecommunications, financial services, and energy and utilities organizations across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East helped drive the milestone quarter. Cequence attributed the growth to increasing enterprise focus on securing AI agents, APIs, and modern application environments as organizations scale AI-driven operations.
According to the company, enterprises are increasingly relying on the Cequence platform to protect applications and sensitive data in the emerging agentic AI era, where autonomous AI agents interact directly with enterprise systems and infrastructure.
“Enterprises are racing to put agentic AI to work, but the security foundation to support it simply hasn’t kept pace,” said Ameya Talwalkar, CEO at Cequence. “Our customers, whether they’re defending against sophisticated fraud, securing critical APIs, or safely connecting AI agents to their most sensitive applications, are all solving versions of the same problem.”
The company reported significant customer wins during the quarter across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, South Korea, Brazil, and the United States, alongside major expansion activity with existing customers. Cequence also secured its largest-ever transaction with a leading telecommunications provider in Japan.
“Enterprises are racing to put agentic AI to work, but the security foundation to support it simply hasn’t kept pace. This quarter’s results reflect what happens when you’ve spent a decade building toward this moment,” said Ameya Talwalkar.
The Middle East emerged as a standout growth region for the company, with new deployments spanning digital banking, fintech, and government organizations across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. Cequence noted that rapid digital transformation and increasing adoption of agentic AI across the region are accelerating demand for enterprise-grade application and API security platforms.
On the product front, Cequence recently announced the general availability of Agent Personas within the platform. The capability is designed to provide infrastructure-level least-privilege access controls for autonomous AI agents, enabling enterprises to define granular permissions down to individual tool-call actions.
The company also expanded its global partner ecosystem during the quarter, adding new partnerships with , , and , while recording its first fully channel-driven customer win in Southeast Asia.
Cequence further strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Chandra Rentachintala as Vice President of Engineering. The company said the move reflects continued investment in scaling its AI security platform and engineering operations globally.
During the year, Cequence also received multiple industry recognitions, including ranking No. 128 in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list, recognition as a leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for API Security and Management, and winning Best API Security Solution at the 2026 SC Media Awards.
