DataDome recognized in The Bot And Agent Trust Management Software Landscape, Q4 2025 from Forrester

Forrester has just released The Bot And Agent Trust Management Software Landscape, Q4 2025 report. It marks a fundamental shift to reflect the rapid rise of agentic AI traffic—moving beyond traditional bot management to a new paradigm that establishes trusted relationships with both human users and the AI agents acting on their behalf.

The timing couldn’t be more critical. DataDome’s 2025 Global Bot Security Report analyzed nearly 17,000 websites and revealed that only 2.8% were fully protected against bot attacks—while 61.2% failed every single test. Meanwhile, LLM crawler traffic surged 3.9x between January and August 2025, with DataDome detecting 1.7 billion requests from OpenAI crawlers in a single month alone.

Organizations are no longer facing a simple “bot vs. human” challenge—they’re navigating a complex ecosystem where AI agents act on behalf of customers, creating both opportunities and risks.

Introducing the Bot and Agent Trust Management Software Landscape, Q4 2025

In response to this evolution, Forrester has released The Bot And Agent Trust Management Software Landscape, Q4 2025, marking a fundamental shift in how the industry addresses agentic traffic.

This report moves beyond traditional bot management to embrace a new paradigm: Bot and agent trust management—focused on establishing trusted relationships with both human users and the AI agents acting on their behalf. Forrester defines it as:

“Software that identifies and analyzes the intent of automated traffic directed at an application, establishing ongoing trusted relationships with good bots and AI agents and rejecting and misdirecting malicious bots and AI agents, to protect legitimate customer business while also increasing attacker costs.”

And we’re proud that DataDome has been recognized in this report, an overview of 19 vendors in this new space.

DataDome has a clear commitement: to help organizations not only protect against malicious agentic traffic but also enable frictionless experiences for legitimate customers and AI agents.

The market has evolved—and so have the threats

The Forrester report highlights a fundamental shift: the rise of AI agents is moving the market from security-first to trust-first.

Organizations can no longer simply identify traffic as “bot or human.” They must establish trusted relationships with AI agents while deterring malicious automation—because blocking AI agents wholesale means blocking paying customers.

Success requires accurately identifying agent intent and connecting agents back to their human users, all while maintaining frictionless experiences.

DataDome’s 2025: Leading the shift to Agent Trust

As the market evolved, we evolved with it. What we shipped in 2025:

Visibility & detection

• AI agent dashboard with intent-based filtering

• Detecting AI agent spoofing & identity masquerading

• Genetic algorithm-powered detection evolving in real-time
• AI email scoring catching synthetic accounts

Control & monetization

• MCP Protection securing Model Context Protocol infrastructure

• TollBit and Skyfire integrations to monetize AI traffic
• Granular policies per agent: allow, block, rate-limit, or charge

With thousands of adaptive AI models, DataDome blocks every fraudulent click, signup, and login in under 2 milliseconds without compromising performance, protecting some of the world’s largest enterprises and stopping 20k+ attacks every second.

Ready your business for agentic commerce

The shift to bot and agent trust management isn’t just about security—it’s about enabling the future of digital commerce. Whether you’re dealing with scraping attacks, account takeover, or need to establish trusted relationships with AI agents, DataDome provides the visibility, control, and trust that you need.

Resources to guide your journey:

• Download our Agentic Commerce Guide to ready your business for AI agents
• Get the 2025 Global Bot Security Report to see where your industry stands
• Check our Agent Trust page
  
• The Bot and Agent Trust Management Software Landscape, Q4 2025 report is available to Forrester clients or for purchase

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