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Vendor, ranked 5 of 15

HUMAN Security

In short

HUMAN Security sells bot and agent controls that grade yes on agent verification, per-purpose policy and reporting and partial on charging, for 7 of 10 points. Cryptographic verification is missing at the medium trust level, which HUMAN itself flags as a source of false negatives. The price is not public.

Bot and fraud defense vendor whose AgenticTrust module rates AI agents High, Medium or Low trust and lets sites allow or deny agent actions such as browsing, login, account creation and checkout. Vendor description of itself, checked against its documents on 2026-11-04.

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Type
Bot management
Homepage
humansecurity.com
Last read
2026-11-05

The rubric, with evidence

QuestionGradeWhat the vendor documentsEvidence
Tells a verified agent from a spoof Yes per-request cryptographic keys (e.g. ChatGPT's published key), plus behavior and private signals; Web Bot Auth not named on pages read High Trust requires verification via cryptographic key on each request. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Per-purpose policy (train, search, answer, act) Yes per-action categories (content, engage, account creation, checkout, rate limit) by trust level Category permissions listed in Trust Levels blog. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Charging for access Partial through scraping monetization partners (TollBit logo on product page); no native charging found Ecosystem section of AgenticTrust page. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Lets signed commerce agents through Not published Visa TAP or Mastercard Agent Pay support (checked 2026-11-04) Not mentioned on AgenticTrust page or Trust Levels blog. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Cost Not graded no public price; sales-led Package plans page shows no prices. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Reporting Yes user and session insights on agent actions, monthly State of Agentic Traffic benchmark Visibility section of AgenticTrust page. Source, read 2026-11-04.
Where it runs Not graded platform: Sightline integrates with the customer's stack; exact deployment points not confirmed on pages read AgenticTrust page describes integration into HUMAN's broader platform. Source, read 2026-11-04.

Cost

no public price; sales-led (checked 2026-11-04) Source, read 2026-11-04.

What HUMAN Security does not do

Documented facts

Features are as the vendor documents them; we have not tested them. A claim a vendor makes about itself is marked as a vendor claim.

Dated news

Compared with

What HUMAN Security does for this layer

From the vendor's own pages

HUMAN introduced AgenticTrust on 30 Jul 2025 as a new module of HUMAN Sightline Cyberfraud Defense covering websites, applications and mobile apps. (humansecurity.com, dated 2025-07-30) HUMAN's AgenticTrust launch post sorts traffic into three classes, humans, bots and AI agents, and lists permissions, rate limits and the most targeted routes among what customers can review per agent. (humansecurity.com, dated 2025-07-30) HUMAN's documentation cites ChatGPT as an agent that exposes its key so services can verify it, and points implementers to the IETF Web Bot Auth working group. (docs.humansecurity.com) HUMAN assigns a Low Trust Level to agents that are unverified or easily spoofed, or that never or inconsistently declare their identity through a private signal to HUMAN. (docs.humansecurity.com)

HUMAN publishes HUMAN Verified AI Agent on GitHub, an open-source showcase of A2A-based agents that sign requests with HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421) following the Web Bot Auth architecture draft. (github.com) HUMAN's Muse post says HUMAN supports the web-bot-auth standard but that most AI providers do not yet use it. (humansecurity.com, dated 2026-09-28)

Claims the vendor makes about itself

HUMAN's 28 Sep 2026 post says AgenticTrust identifies and verifies Meta's Muse and more than 30 other AI agents using proprietary research or digital signatures. (humansecurity.com, dated 2026-09-28) HUMAN reported in the same post that Muse made up an average of 72% of daily AI-agent requests it observed, 5.2 times the daily volume of ChatGPT Agent. (humansecurity.com, dated 2026-09-28) HUMAN's AgenticTrust product page offers verification of agents by cryptographic digital signatures and AI-generated insight into agent activity at the user level. (humansecurity.com)

Products and plans

ProductWhat it doesPrice modelFromAs of
Sightline Cyberfraud Defense with AgenticTrust Agent identification, trust levels and per-category permissions for browsing, login, account creation and checkout. sales-led No price on the AgenticTrust page. Not published 2026-11-05
HUMAN Verified AI Agent (open source) Reference code for agents that sign requests with HTTP Message Signatures. No price recorded

Standards

StandardStatusEvidence
Web Bot Auth Supports HUMAN says it supports web-bot-auth; signed agents get a High Trust Level. (humansecurity.com)
Visa Trusted Agent Protocol No statement No Trusted Agent Protocol statement on the HUMAN pages read 2026-11-05.
Mastercard Agent Pay No statement No Agent Pay support statement on the HUMAN pages read 2026-11-05.

Our checks

CheckResultMethodDate
Homepage fetch HTTP 200 GET with the crawl user agent after a robots.txt check 2026-11-05

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-11-05