"DataDome excels in AI agent trust management, transaction assurance and protection, and marketing analytics assurance use cases."
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DataDome named a Leader in Bot And Agent Trust Management Software
DataDome received the highest scores possible in 12 criteria, the most of any evaluated vendor in the report, including the highest current offering score.
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What The Forrester Wave™: Bot And Agent Trust Management Software, Q2 2026 says about DataDome
"DataDome excels in innovation, with heavy R&D investment and a structured design partner program."
"DataDome has the strongest adoption support program in this evaluation, providing measurable adoption and engagement outcomes within specific periods."
"DataDome's customers shared how the product helped them cut fraud losses; they love the reporting and dashboards and give high marks for customer service."
DataDome is a leader in newly expanded category
The Forrester Wave™: Bot And Agent Trust Management Software, Q2 2026 is creating waves not just for DataDome, but for the entire industry.
Forrester renamed this category from “Bot Management” to “Bot And Agent Trust Management,” formally recognizing that the market has evolved beyond blocking bots to managing trust across all digital traffic: humans, bots, and AI agents. Businesses must now rethink their approach to automated traffic if they haven’t already.
We’ve invested heavily in R&D and innovated fast to anticipate our customers’ needs in 2026 and beyond.
DataDome received the highest score possible in 12 criteria
AI Agent trust management
Identify, classify, and govern AI agents in real time with our out-of-the-box catalog of verified bots and agents. Dynamic 1-to-100 trust scores reflect identity strength, behavioral patterns, and reputation—updated instantly if trusted agents show suspicious intent.
Intent visibility
Analyze every inbound request in real time—no sampling—combining 300+ server-side and client-side signals to build a multi-dimensional view of intent for humans, bots, and AI agents. Intent detection continuously assesses behavioral signals to block fraudulent intent without slowing down real customers and trusted AI agents.
Innovation
Our Exploration program analyzes hundreds of hours of customer and prospect interviews, distilling insights from thousands of meetings and learning from over 25,000 daily product interactions. This ensures we innovate on what matters, faster.
Web & LLM scraping management
Identify and govern web scrapers and LLM crawlers with granular, real-time policy controls—set rules by crawler type, endpoint, or traffic attribute, and enforce them instantly. For publishers and content platforms, DataDome turns AI traffic from a liability into a revenue opportunity by integrating monetization options directly into the scraping management layer.
Partner ecosystem
Our partner program delivers time to value, unlocks innovation and use cases, and makes your tech stack work better. Key co-build projects include direct purchase from AWS WAF, AWS AgentCore integration, and Lambda@Edge scalability enhancements. DataDome holds six AWS competencies and has alliances with GCP, Botify, ArcXP, Source Defense, Skyfire, Tollbit, and Adobe.
Security Operations Integrations
Get real-time visibility into attacks across web, mobile apps, and APIs with automatically calculated risk levels against global threat baselines. Security teams receive immediate alerts via natively integrated tooling with complete attack context—threat name, start date, duration, request counts, IPs, user agents, countries, URLs, and actions taken.
Transaction assurance and protection
Analyze 100% of transactions in real time with sub-2ms verification across 30+ global edge PoPs. Close blind spots from hijacked agents or mid-session fraud without tradeoffs. We never serve CAPTCHAs, only fast Slider interactions or invisible Device Checks when signals are needed, ensuring better UX and less abandonment.
Marketing analytics assurance
Shield publishers, media companies, and advertisers from ad and influence fraud to maximize CPMs and protect revenue. Deliver real-time trust signals and enriched headers out-of-the-box to any platform accepting custom dimensions. Classify humans, verified bots, AI agents, and bad bots, driving higher CPMs and audience retention.
Adoption
Remove deployment friction and achieve measurable outcomes: detection enabled in 35 minutes and protection in 15 minutes. Within one week, you'll have a post-detection Threat Assessment, a structured kick-off with KPI alignment, an onboarding scorecard, in-product setup guides, personalized training, and a post-onboarding Protection Assessment.
Bot and agent detection explainability
See exactly why every human, bot, or agent was detected and what their intent is. Our dashboard displays the main matched model, secondary models, deactivated models, and unique Threat Markers that distill detection complexity into 32 labels by network, behavior, client-side, and server-side characteristics.
Customizable reports & dashboards
Create, customize, and share dashboards without third-party integrations. The Explore section offers 16+ dimensions with multi-layered filters and 30-day ranges. Build unlimited custom dashboards, set defaults, and share across workspaces, supporting attack investigations, endpoint monitoring, regional analysis, and executive overviews without custom dev.
Management UI
Centralize bot management across web, mobile, APIs, and MCP endpoints with one-click discovery and onboarding. Our dashboard automatically categorizes apps by traffic source and provides real-time protection status and analytics at a glance. Deploy via Infrastructure-as-Code, REST API, or MCP server for enterprise-grade control with developer-friendly ease.
FAQs
What is The Forrester Wave™: Bot and Agent Trust Management Software, Q2 2026?
The Forrester Wave™ is an independent evaluation by Forrester Research that evaluates and scores the top vendors in a defined technology category. For the Q2 2026 edition, Forrester formally renamed the category from “Bot Management” to “Bot and Agent Trust Management,” recognizing that the market has evolved beyond blocking bots to governing all automated traffic, including LLM crawlers and AI agents. Vendors are assessed across Current Offering, Strategy, and Customer Feedback, and categorized as Leaders, Strong Performers, and Contenders.
What is bot and agent trust management?
Bot and agent trust management is the practice of detecting, classifying, and governing all automated traffic across your digital properties, including traditional bots, AI agents, LLM crawlers, and autonomous tools operating across websites, mobile apps, APIs, and MCP endpoints. It goes beyond binary block/allow decisions to establish trusted relationships with legitimate automated traffic, determine intent at the request level, and enforce dynamic policies that protect revenue, data, and user experience without disrupting the good traffic you depend on.
What should I look for in a bot and agent trust management solution?
The most effective solutions analyze 100% of traffic in real time, without sampling, and detect threats based on behavior and intent, not just identity. Key capabilities to evaluate include: AI agent trust scoring and continuous verification, centralized management across web, mobile, APIs, and MCP endpoints, explainable detection that security teams can actually act on, customizable dashboards and reporting for both technical and business stakeholders, and seamless integrations with your existing SIEM, SOAR, and analytics stack. Time to value and adoption support matter too. Look for vendors with measurable onboarding outcomes, not just feature checklists.
What's the difference between traditional bot management and AI agent trust management?
Traditional bot management was built to identify and block malicious automated traffic based on known signatures, behavioral patterns, and rate limits. AI agent trust management is a broader mandate: it evaluates the identity, intent, and ongoing trustworthiness of AI agents and autonomous tools that are increasingly operating alongside humans—and alongside each other—online. These agents can be legitimate (payment processors, search crawlers, agentic assistants) or malicious (rogue scrapers, hijacked agents executing fraud), and they can change behavior mid-session. That requires continuous verification, dynamic trust scoring, and granular policy controls—not just a static allowlist.
How is DataDome positioned in The Forrester Wave™: Bot and Agent Trust Management Software, Q2 2026?
DataDome is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Bot and Agent Trust Management Software, Q2 2026 DataDome received the highest score in the Current Offering category among all evaluated vendors, with the highest possible scores in 12 criteria: AI Agent Trust Management, Intent Visibility, Transaction Assurance, Marketing Analytics Assurance, Bot and agent detection explainability, Management UI, Customizable Reports & Dashboards, Security Operations Integrations, Web & LLM Scraping Management, Innovation, Partner Ecosystem, and Adoption. DataDome received the most 5/5 scores of all vendors in the evaluation.
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