Transmit Security

As major banks move to restrict AI assistants from accessing customer accounts, they face a difficult question: How do you protect customers from untrusted agents without preventing them from using the next generation of digital banking? For decades, banks have invested billions of dollars making it easier for customers to manage their money digitally. They […]

A customer asks their AI assistant to pay a utility bill from their bank account. The assistant logs in, navigates to bill pay, fills in the form, and gets blocked. Ten minutes later, a credential-stuffing script tuned to look human walks straight through the same defenses. This is happening today, at banks and retailers that […]

Every identity vendor now has an agent story: register your AI agent, give it a client ID, issue it a short-lived, narrowly scoped token, and log what it does. The story comes with clean diagrams, sensible standards and good demos. There is just one problem: the whole model assumes the agent knocks on the front […]

Last week, we wrote about a profound change happening in authentication. Personal AI agents such as Instinct, Meta Muse and Grok Bot increasingly need access to our digital identities to act on our behalf. Different platforms handle this differently: some store credentials, some isolate credentials from the model, and some allow a human to authenticate […]

For decades, authentication has been built around a simple mental model: a user arrives at an application, responds to a challenge, and proves who they are with a password, an authenticator, a passkey, or some combination of factors. The application then lets them in. AI agents are quietly breaking that model. Personal agents such as […]