Straiker Named in Two 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ Reports: Secure AI and AI-Driven Cybersecurity

Straiker has been named a Sample Vendor in the Agentic AI Security category of two 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ reports published on October 12, 2026:

Straiker helps enterprises secure the AI agents they build, buy, and deploy. Our agentic AI security platform brings together three core capabilities:

• AI agent discovery and security posture management: Discover AI inventories AI agents, MCP servers, Agent Skills, tools, and permissions to identify security risks across the agentic estate.
• AI security testing and red teaming: Ascend AI performs autonomous adversarial testing to uncover exploitable vulnerabilities and unsafe agent behavior.
• AI runtime defense and protection: Defend AI detects and blocks malicious or unauthorized agent actions in real time, with an agentic kill switch to stop rogue agents and contain threats.

Securing AI Agents Across the Enterprise

AI agents have different levels of access depending on how they're used. A coding agent like Claude Code or OpenAI Codex may read repositories, execute commands, and modify code. A productivity agent may access internal documents, emails, and connected applications. A custom-built agent may use MCP connections or APIs to update CRM records, process customer requests, or execute business workflows.

These capabilities introduce security risks that extend beyond traditional prompt injection, including unauthorized tool use, data exfiltration, excessive permissions, and agents taking actions outside their intended scope.

For enterprise security teams, securing these environments requires more than inspecting prompts and responses. They need to discover which agents are running, assess their configurations and permissions, test how they behave under attack, and enforce security policies while agents execute tasks.

This is where AI security posture management, AI security testing, and AI runtime defense come together. Security teams need to connect findings from adversarial testing to production controls, monitor agent behavior, and have the ability to block unauthorized actions or contain a compromised agent.

Straiker addresses these requirements through a unified approach to agentic AI security, helping organizations maintain visibility and control across third-party AI tools, enterprise-built agents, and the systems they connect to.

Together, these capabilities help organizations secure AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, productivity agents such as AI assistants and chatbots, and custom-built enterprise agents throughout their lifecycle.

Learn more about Straiker's AI agent security platform.

Sources:

Gartner, Hype Cycle for Secure AI, 2026, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Dionisio Zumerle, Jeff Arias, 12 October 2026.

Gartner, Hype Cycle for AI-Driven Cybersecurity, 2026, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Craig Porter, Josh Murphy, Christine Lee, 12 October 2026.

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