NeuralTrust recognized as a Star in the MarketsandMarkets Agentic AI Security Quadrant

NeuralTrust has been recognized as a Star in the MarketsandMarkets Agentic AI Security Market, Global Forecast to 2032 Company Evaluation Matrix for AI Security Specialists/Startups, 2025. The recognition places NeuralTrust in the highest tier of the matrix, alongside a small group of vendors evaluated as leaders across both product footprint and market share within the emerging agentic AI security category.

A new category takes shape

For most of the past decade, AI security questions could be answered using familiar tools: application firewalls, API gateways, identity controls, data loss prevention. Generative AI strained that model. Agentic AI breaks it.

Modern AI agents do not just generate text. They interpret intent, accumulate context across sessions, call external tools, access sensitive systems, and execute actions on behalf of users. Their risk surface is not a request payload, it is a sequence of decisions unfolding over time.

MarketsandMarkets' decision to publish a dedicated company evaluation for agentic AI security reflects a broader shift now visible across the industry: securing autonomous AI systems has become a distinct discipline, with its own architecture, its own threat models, and its own vendor landscape.

What "Star" means in the MarketsandMarkets matrix

The MarketsandMarkets evaluation classifies vendors across four tiers based on product footprint and market share or rank. Stars are vendors that, in the firm's words, "demonstrate strong and well-developed product capabilities across multiple agentic AI security layers" and have "achieved notable market traction," with leadership positioning supported by innovation, partnerships, and growing enterprise adoption.

In practical terms, Star positioning reflects three things at once: breadth of capability across the agentic AI security stack, depth of enterprise deployment, and an expanding geographic and application footprint.

Shifts redefining the agentic AI security market

The MarketsandMarkets analysis aligns with patterns we see every day in conversations with security leaders deploying AI agents at scale. Four shifts stand out.

Agentic AI Security as a distinct discipline. Securing autonomous AI agents is no longer a subset of application or API security. It is an independent market with its own buyers, budgets, and architectural assumptions.

Runtime protection at the core. Static reviews and offline evaluations are no longer enough. Enterprises increasingly require inline detection, policy enforcement, and observability across LLMs, agents, and tool calls, applied in real time.

Continuous red teaming. As attack techniques evolve faster than release cycles, automated adversarial testing is becoming a baseline requirement rather than a periodic exercise. Vendors are expected to surface and stress test new vulnerabilities continuously.

Convergence of governance and security. Visibility, evaluation, and enforcement are merging into unified control planes purpose-built for agentic systems, rather than bolted onto existing application security tools.

What this means for NeuralTrust

At NeuralTrust, we set out to build a security layer purpose-built for LLMs, AI agents, and the broader generative AI ecosystem. That meant designing for the realities of how these systems actually behave: semantic attacks that bypass syntactic filters, multi-turn manipulations that only emerge across sessions, tool calls that introduce real-world side effects, and supply chains that extend far beyond the model itself.

The MarketsandMarkets recognition reinforces the direction we have taken: runtime protection through the Generative Application Firewall, automated red teaming, continuous evaluation, and observability, all delivered as infrastructure-level controls that enterprises can deploy across clouds, vendors, and agent platforms.

It also adds to a growing list of independent endorsements for NeuralTrust, including recognition by Gartner in the Market Guide for AI Gateways and the Market Guide for Guardian Agents, the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense, and the European Commission's identification of NeuralTrust as a champion in AI security.

The road ahead

The agentic AI security market is still early, and the most important work is ahead of us. As enterprises move from pilot agents to fleets of hundreds or thousands of autonomous systems in production, the security and governance layer underneath them will determine how far AI adoption can safely scale.

Being named a Star by MarketsandMarkets is a strong signal that this layer is being built, and that NeuralTrust is helping shape it.

If you would like to see how our platform secures AI agents and LLM applications in production, schedule a demo with our team.