Boards and executives have been pushing organizations to “do something with AI.”
Singapore, 28 November 2025 – Businesses in Australia and Singapore are racing to implement artificial intelligence to boost productivity and competitiveness, but many are finding that turning AI prototypes into secure, production-ready solutions is much more difficult and takes much longer than expected.
Across industries, boards and executives have been pushing their organizations to “do something with AI,” often driven as much by fear of missing out (FOMO) as by strategy.
The result is a proliferation of internal “safe” projects around customer success, sales efficiency, engineering productivity, and cybersecurity that are initially promising but stall at scale.
While companies are finding it relatively easy to build AI prototypes, more and more companies are finding that putting AI prototypes into production and truly capturing value, whether for internal use or customer-facing applications, is an entirely different challenge.
Ameya Talwalkar, CEO and co-founder of Cequence Security, said, “Our message to enterprises is that instead of tackling these projects ‘by hand’, they should leverage a cutting-edge solution like Cequence. With Cequence, enterprises will not only get out of the prototyping rut, they will never be there in the first place.”
“Cequence provides a quick and easy solution that allows organizations to quickly test new ideas for using agent AI, without the risk of security issues or significant technical debt.
Cequence Security has worked with Fortune 500 clients in the United States, Asia, and Australia to help bridge the gap between stagnation and effective productivity.
Common implementation hurdles include:
• AI agents require access to internal apps and APIs, creating new security and compliance risks.
• Shortage of developers with AI skills and upskilling requirements.
• The need for strict user and agent access controls to prevent abuse.
• Production-grade requirements for authentication, authorization, monitoring, and logging.
If these basic requirements are not addressed, projects that begin with promises end up taking significantly longer than anticipated, widening the gap between leaders’ expectations and what is actually delivered.
Talwalkar said: “Production environments require proper authentication authorization, monitoring, logging, and security to prevent malicious or misbehaving agents from causing serious problems.
“We find that many organizations are starting with internal projects to improve risk management. However, while agent AI can truly alleviate key pain points, critical enterprise adoption issues must be addressed before the technology can deliver on its promise.”
Ameya Talwalkar held a special roundtable with a number of interested companies in Australia and Singapore, highlighting how the pursuit of AI-powered productivity and growth can be done quickly, safely and reliably with the right approach.
Key takeaways from roundtables with government, banking, finance and retail industries:
• AI is as transformative as the internet itself – positioned as a key insight highlighting the scale of disruption facing organizations.
• AI as a Board-Level Conversation – Highlights how the AI discussion has moved to the executive and board level, with a focus on defining use cases and outcomes to guide investment decisions.
• Organizations that have made commitments – Differentiate between those that are still making plans and those that have firm commitments and a growing list of use cases.
• Security built as an afterthought – We connect this with the historical pattern of new technologies being developed without security in mind, making it empathetic to security practitioners who have grappled with this challenge before.
• Security Roadblocks – Highlights how even well-planned initiatives with executive-level support run into unexpected security, compliance, and governance hurdles.
About sequence security
Cequence is a pioneer in API security and bot management, helping organizations AI-enable the applications and APIs they rely on to protect them from attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud. Our unique solution unlocks the productivity potential of agent AI and provides real-time security against increasingly sophisticated threats. Cequence is trusted by the largest and most demanding private and public sector organizations, securing over 10 billion API interactions and 4 billion user accounts every day. If you would like to learn more please visit: [https://www.cequence.ai/]
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