How Deception Helps Amex Global Business Travel Trap Autonomous AI Attacks
Zscaler, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Zscaler describes how Amex Global Business Travel uses deception to catch machine-speed autonomous AI attacks.
Zscaler argues that autonomous or agentic AI is a clear and present danger even for security-savvy organizations, because an AI agent crossing the perimeter operates at machine speed.
The company's position is that simply getting faster will never be sufficient; defenders must instead turn attacker speed against them by exploiting agent weaknesses with deception technology.
An agent moving quickly through an environment has no way to distinguish a decoy from a real asset.
The post cites the first verified AI-orchestrated nation-state attack, detected targeting 30 organizations, as a warning of what is coming, and describes how Amex Global Business Travel applies deception in practice.