In its first appearance in a Forrester Wave™, CHEQ earned top scores of 5 out of 5 in Roadmap, Marketing Analytics Assurance, and Marketing and E-Commerce Integrations, while customers praised its value, noting the platform “pays for itself."

NEW YORK, NY, June 16, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- CHEQ, the leading identity, security, and intelligence platform for the open web, today announced it has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Bot and Agent Trust Management Software, Q2 2026. CHEQ was the only vendor among the eight evaluated to receive the highest possible score in the Marketing and e-commerce integrations criterion, and one of only two vendors to receive the top score in the Roadmap criterion.

Since 2019, CHEQ has helped the world's largest companies solve a problem most security solutions weren't built for: protecting the full customer journey, end to end, across the e-commerce and marketing tools brands depend on. CHEQ believes the Bot and Agent Trust Management Wave validates this approach.

Forrester frames the buying decision around the full customer journey, noting that bot and agent traffic "affects a range of security and business stakeholders" and that prospective buyers must "consider how bots, agents, and human customers engage throughout the customer journey and seek use-case-specific features and rich integrations with relevant identity, e-commerce, and marketing tools." 

Forrester named CHEQ "a strong choice for organizations that value high-touch customer support and need a solution for both security- and business-focused stakeholders," adding that CHEQ "stands out with a broad roadmap around detection, trust, and a range of features to enhance customer experience." Forrester also named CHEQ's Gold-level partnership with Adobe as a highlight of its partnership program.

The report's customer feedback states that customers "praise CHEQ's value, noting that the product pays for itself.”

The recognition marks CHEQ's first appearance in a Forrester Wave™, in a decades-old category Forrester has recently redefined to reflect what brands now need: not just defense against bots, but trust and control across every entity. As AI agents increasingly act on behalf of real people (shopping, signing up, and transacting), the old question of "good bot or bad bot" no longer fits. The new category centers on a different question: how much can a brand trust the human, bot, or AI agent in front of it, and what should happen next.

Inclusion in the evaluation is itself selective. Per the report's published criteria, Forrester evaluated only vendors with broad, enterprise-level support, substantial revenue in the bot and agent trust management market, and mindshare among Forrester's enterprise clients.

"The Bot and Agent Trust Management Wave is a milestone for the entire market. Forrester has formalized a category the industry has been moving toward for years," said Guy Tytunovich, founder and CEO of CHEQ. "Every brand is about to meet a flood of traffic that is neither human nor simple automation. We believe the companies that win the agentic web will be the ones that can deliver trust, intent, and control across every entity: human, bot, or AI agent. CHEQ has been building for this moment since before it had a name, and we are focused on where the category goes from here."

CHEQ believes its recognition reflects an approach built for this shift. The CHEQ platform combines the world's largest independent identity graph for fraud and trust, observing 6 billion authenticated user activities daily across 3 million websites and apps, with non-human detection across the entire customer journey. That foundation lets brands evaluate every visitor in real time and decide, in milliseconds, whether to allow, monitor, challenge, or block.

"For the marketers, e-commerce teams, and growth leaders who own the customer journey, we believe the report tells a simple story," Tytunovich added. "CHEQ received a 5/5 in Marketing analytics assurance, a 5/5 in Marketing and e-commerce integrations, and a 5/5 in Roadmap. Those are the criteria that matter when your job is protecting revenue, analytics, and the customer experience from rogue AI agents. That's exactly what CHEQ was built for."

About CHEQ

CHEQ is the leading identity, security and intelligence platform for the open web, trusted by the world's leading brands across industries including cybersecurity, financial services, retail and ecommerce, and technology. More than 15,000 companies, from the Fortune 50 to industry innovators, rely on CHEQ to secure their websites and apps, protect their marketing investments, and govern who interacts with their digital experiences. CHEQ's platform combines the industry's only triple-layer traffic, trust, and identity intelligence engine with the world's largest independent identity graph for fraud and trust. Founded in 2016, CHEQ is a global organization with offices in New York, London, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit cheq.ai.

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