Know Your Agent: LexisNexis Targets AI Agent Risk
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has extended its risk intelligence solutions to help organisations understand and assess a new class of digital actor: AI agents operating on behalf of people and businesses.
For decades, LexisNexis Risk Solutions has helped organisations make risk decisions by connecting identity, device, behavioural, network and transaction intelligence at global scale. As AI agents become another participant in digital interactions, the company is extending that same connected intelligence approach to agentic activity.
Know Your Agent (KYA) intelligence adds a new layer of agentic insights to LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ digital identity and fraud prevention platform. It helps organisations recognise when AI agents interact with their digital services and brings those interactions directly into established risk assessment and decisioning workflows, rather than treating them as an isolated risk problem. Many LexisNexis Risk Solutions customers already use KYA intelligence in their risk management decision-making.
Analysis of global digital transactions by LexisNexis Risk Solutions shows agentic traffic grew more than 750 per cent in the first half of 2026 alone. Rapid growth is expected to continue as more people and organisations adopt agents to undertake everyday tasks such as online shopping.
Because most personal agents today do not self-declare as agents, organisations face an immediate challenge: distinguishing agentic activity from other digital traffic. But this is only the first step. Agent detection alone cannot answer the key questions organisations ultimately need to resolve. Who or what is the agent acting for? Has that activity been authorised? Is its behaviour consistent with that authority? And does the wider context of the interaction indicate that it is legitimate?
That context may also change during a digital journey as control passes between a person and an AI agent, making continuous visibility into the interaction more important. This is where the scale and connectivity of the Risk Intelligence Network becomes essential.
AI agent activity does not need to be evaluated in isolation. It can be understood in the context of the identities, devices, networks, behavioural patterns and relationships surrounding digital activity, providing richer context for risk decisions. This connected intelligence approach incorporates agent detection into risk decisions in real time, while laying the groundwork for more sophisticated agent identity and authorisation capabilities as agents, standards and use cases evolve.
Autonomous AI agents can increase the scale and sophistication of fraud, including authorised push payment fraud and account takeover attacks. Malicious agents can learn dynamically from successes and failures, enabling subsequent attacks to become more tailored and prolific.
For organisations, the decision is not whether an agent is universally trusted but whether a specific agent, acting in a specific context, should be permitted to perform a specific action. Legitimate agents will increasingly participate in digital customer journeys, but the appropriate response will depend on what the agent is attempting to do, the context of the interaction and the organisation’s own risk policies. KYA intelligence helps organisations bring agentic activity into existing decisioning workflows so they can allow, authenticate, review or reject interactions as appropriate.
‘Agentic commerce is moving quickly from experimentation into the mainstream,’ said Grayson Clarke, chief commercial officer at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. ‘Agentic transactions globally more than doubled again in the last quarter, driven primarily by personal agents. Some businesses are enabling agents to transact on consumers’ behalf, while others are restricting their activities, and many are still determining the right approach. We have already seen firsthand how a global financial institution used our detection capabilities to help identify agentic activity and prevent it from executing sensitive transactions.’
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