Q02 · Platforms & InfrastructureTrial◌ NewHorizon: 6-12 mo

Non-Human Identity for Commerce APIs

Governing the growing population of service accounts, bots and shopping-agent identities.

As AI shopping agents begin calling commerce APIs on behalf of customers, retailers need robust, auditable identity governance to distinguish legitimate agentic traffic from scraping and fraud.

Sequencing

Enables Threat Modeling for Commerce & Payment Systems, Agent & Tool Protocols for Agentic Commerce

Non-Human Identity across other industries

Governing the explosion of service accounts, bots and agent identities inside your systems.

Security

From the Retail & Consumer Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.

An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.