LexisNexis Risk Solutions Introduces Know Your Agent Intelligence to Help Government Agencies Navigate the Rise of AI Agents

New agentic intelligence helps agencies distinguish AI agents from human users and automated traffic, providing a critical risk signal to help protect citizen identities, public funds and digital government services

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today announced new agentic intelligence capabilities to help government agencies identify when an artificial intelligence (AI) agent enters or interacts with a digital government system. Know Your Agent (KYA) intelligence gives agencies greater visibility into agentic activity as a distinct risk signal, helping protect citizen accounts, public benefits, tax systems, licensing portals and other digital services while enabling legitimate uses of AI.

Available with LexisNexis® ThreatMetrix® and LexisNexis® BehavioSec®, the capabilities allow government agencies to incorporate AI-agent activity detection alongside digital identity, device, behavioral and transaction intelligence and bring those interactions directly into established risk assessment and decisioning workflows. Agencies can use that additional context to determine how an interaction should be handled based on their policies, the sensitivity of the service or transaction and the level of risk.

Analysis of global digital transactions by LexisNexis Risk Solutions reveals agentic traffic grew 750% in the first half of 2026 alone. As AI agents increasingly act on behalf of people, their rapid adoption introduces a fundamental new challenge for government. Agencies need to determine whether the entity interacting with the agency is a person, a conventional bot or an AI agent. Many personal agents do not currently self-declare, further complicating an agency's ability to understand who, or what, is acting within its digital environment.

A New Trust Challenge for Digital Government

Government agencies have spent years strengthening digital identity, authentication and fraud-prevention capabilities to establish greater confidence that the person accessing an online service is who they claim to be. AI agents introduce another dimension. Agencies increasingly need to know whether an AI agent is involved and incorporate that signal into the broader context informing authentication, authorization and risk decisions.

"AI agents present a serious new threat to the integrity of digital government," said Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Government. "Government systems were built to serve people, not autonomous agents acting between citizens and their government. Until agencies can reliably know when an agent is present, who is behind it and whether its actions are authorized, allowing agents to conduct sensitive government transactions creates an unacceptable opening for fraud and abuse. For government, success cannot be reduced to a detection percentage. The real measure is whether an agency can protect the citizen, the transaction and the public funds behind it. Agencies need to know whether they are dealing with a person, a bot or an AI agent before public funds, benefits or sensitive information are put at risk."

Understanding AI Agent Activity

LexisNexis ThreatMetrix and LexisNexis BehavioSec provide digital identity, device, behavioral and network intelligence that can help identify recognized AI-agent signatures and other indicators of agent-driven activity. These capabilities help agencies distinguish among human users, automated bot traffic and AI agents, providing additional context for assessing identity and risk across digital interactions.

The capabilities can support government interactions including benefits and program access, digital service enrollment, authentication and account access, payments and disbursements, and individual self-service. These capabilities also provide a foundation for emerging environments in which autonomous systems increasingly interact with government systems and with one another.

Rather than treating all automation the same, agencies can incorporate agentic intelligence into existing workflows and apply controls appropriate to their risk tolerance and the sensitivity of an interaction. The capability complements existing identity verification, authentication, fraud prevention and cybersecurity controls.

Know Your Agent intelligence can provide government agencies with a protocol-agnostic foundation for navigating this rapidly evolving environment, building on existing identity and fraud prevention capabilities while providing the flexibility to respond as AI agents, technical standards and government use cases continue to evolve.

About LexisNexis Risk Solutions

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced analytics to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. We provide data and technology solutions for a wide range of industries including insurance, financial services, healthcare, and government. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com and www.relx.com.

Media Contact:
Paul Eckloff
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Mobile: +1.202.941.6986
[email protected]

SOURCE LexisNexis Risk Solutions