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The Holiday Fraud Test Is Weeks Away and the Agent Stack Isn’t Ready

The Holiday Fraud Test Is Weeks Away and the Agent Stack Isn’t Ready

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With the peak shopping weekend beginning November 26 and running through Cyber Monday on November 30, merchants have approximately five weeks from October 20 to finalize their infrastructure. The industry spent October deploying a new defensive stack – identity, fraud, checkout, and insurance layers – yet none of it has faced the volume of holiday-scale traffic. How these systems hold under peak load is the open question. The October Sprint The industry spent October building a defensive perimeter around agentic commerce .

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