2026 Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant
In under two years, Gartner went from publishing guidance on securing AI agents to evaluating a dedicated market of AI application security vendors. Akto appears at every step.
of enterprise GenAI applications will experience at least five minor security incidents per year by 2028, up from 9% in 2025, as MCP and agentic AI introduce new attack vectors.
Risk comes from two directions
Employees adopt AI tools faster than IT can review them, while product teams ship their own AI apps. Akto Atlas covers the first, and Akto Argus the second.
Agents act on their own
Agents call tools, MCP servers and APIs without a person approving each step, so security teams need to see every action and tool call.
Protection moves to runtime
A pre-launch review can't keep up with agents that change every week. Gartner lists AI runtime defense as a core capability of the market.
Hype Cycle
Hype Cycle
Named Sample Vendor in Gartner's Hype Cycle for AI Governance, 2026
Akto has been named as a sample vendor in the AI Runtime Defense category by Gartner in its Hype Cycle for AI Governance, 2026 report.
Hype Cycle
Named Sample Vendor in Gartner's Hype Cycle for Data Security Technologies, 2026
Akto has been named as a sample vendor in the AI Runtime Defense category by Gartner in its Hype Cycle for Data Security Technologies, 2026 report.
Market Guide
Named Representative Vendor in Gartner's Guide on Security AI Agents
Akto is listed as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's 2025 Guide for Securing AI Agents, alongside the vendors defining how enterprises secure agentic AI systems.