Straiker Wins the 2026 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award
Straiker has been named a winner of the 2026 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award.
If you lead security and you are trying to figure out who is real in agentic security, third-party validation is one of the few signals you can trust. Today we have one more. Straiker has been named a winner of the 2026 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award.
For the teams evaluating how to secure AI agents, the value here is not the award on our wall. It is the independent read it gives you. Intellyx looked at how we map, test, and defend agentic applications, and they decided it was worth covering. That is a data point you can take into your own diligence.
Why analyst validation matters when the category is this new
Agentic security is young. New agents, MCP servers, and models reach production every week, and most security teams inherited responsibility for all of it without much warning. When a category moves this fast, marketing claims get loud and proof gets scarce. Recognition from an independent analyst firm helps you separate vendors who have a working answer from vendors who have a deck.
That is why we put weight on this one. Intellyx focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the disruptive vendors behind it, and they talk to a lot of them. The firm noted that we are now among the near-200 best vendors they have engaged over the last two quarters, out of the hundreds of pitches they field every week. By their own math, the odds of a successful briefing were less than 1 in 100.
What the Intellyx Digital Innovator Award recognizes
Now in its sixth year, the Intellyx Digital Innovator Awards go to vendors who make it through the firm's briefing selection process and deliver a briefing that earns coverage that year. Vendors earn the recognition on the strength of the briefing itself, and winning never depends on being a paying client.
"At Intellyx, we're always looking to speak to the most innovative and disruptive software vendors around the world," said Jason Bloomberg, Managing Director of Intellyx BV. "We're happy to call out those vendors who successfully brief us with our Digital Innovator Award."
The point we made in the briefing: agents are the attack surface
Most AI security tools watch the model. We built Straiker to watch everything the agents do above it, because that is where the real attack surface lives. An agent that calls tools, reads untrusted content, and talks to MCP servers you have never inventoried is a different problem than a single model endpoint, and it needs a different answer.
That answer is three products working together. Discover AI inventories every AI app, agent, MCP server, and model you run, then grades the risk. Ascend AI red-teams those agents continuously with real adversarial prompts, rather than a one-time snapshot that goes stale the week your app changes. Defend AI enforces policy at runtime, blocking attacks and alerting your existing SOC. That scope is what resonated in the briefing, because it reflects the reality security teams are living with today, where agents reach well beyond the single model endpoint that older tools were built to watch.
What this means for you
You are responsible for securing the agents your business is shipping, and no award will do that work for you. What recognition like this can do is help you build a shortlist you trust. The Intellyx coverage shows that an independent firm spent real time with our approach and found it worth writing about, which is a solid reason to include Straiker as you weigh how to secure your agentic stack.
If you want to see how it maps to your environment, we are happy to walk through it. Straiker is The Agentic Security Company, and we would rather show you the map than talk about the plaque.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Intellyx Digital Innovator Award? It is an annual recognition from Intellyx, an enterprise technology analyst firm focused on digital transformation. Now in its sixth year, the award goes to vendors who complete Intellyx's briefing selection process and deliver a briefing that earns analyst coverage that year. No purchase is required.
Why did Straiker win the 2026 award? Straiker won after a successful analyst briefing on its approach to agentic security: discovering, testing, and defending AI agents and the applications built around them. Intellyx noted that Straiker is among the near-200 best vendors it engaged over the prior two quarters.
What does Straiker do? Straiker secures agentic applications through three products. Discover AI inventories and grades AI agents, MCP servers, and models, Ascend AI runs continuous adversarial testing against them, and Defend AI enforces guardrails and blocks attacks at runtime.
Who is Straiker? Straiker is The Agentic Security Company, focused on helping enterprises secure the AI agents they build, deploy, and use.
If you lead security and you are trying to figure out who is real in agentic security, third-party validation is one of the few signals you can trust. Today we have one more. Straiker has been named a winner of the 2026 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award.
For the teams evaluating how to secure AI agents, the value here is not the award on our wall. It is the independent read it gives you. Intellyx looked at how we map, test, and defend agentic applications, and they decided it was worth covering. That is a data point you can take into your own diligence.
Why analyst validation matters when the category is this new
Agentic security is young. New agents, MCP servers, and models reach production every week, and most security teams inherited responsibility for all of it without much warning. When a category moves this fast, marketing claims get loud and proof gets scarce. Recognition from an independent analyst firm helps you separate vendors who have a working answer from vendors who have a deck.
That is why we put weight on this one. Intellyx focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the disruptive vendors behind it, and they talk to a lot of them. The firm noted that we are now among the near-200 best vendors they have engaged over the last two quarters, out of the hundreds of pitches they field every week. By their own math, the odds of a successful briefing were less than 1 in 100.
What the Intellyx Digital Innovator Award recognizes
Now in its sixth year, the Intellyx Digital Innovator Awards go to vendors who make it through the firm's briefing selection process and deliver a briefing that earns coverage that year. Vendors earn the recognition on the strength of the briefing itself, and winning never depends on being a paying client.
"At Intellyx, we're always looking to speak to the most innovative and disruptive software vendors around the world," said Jason Bloomberg, Managing Director of Intellyx BV. "We're happy to call out those vendors who successfully brief us with our Digital Innovator Award."
The point we made in the briefing: agents are the attack surface
Most AI security tools watch the model. We built Straiker to watch everything the agents do above it, because that is where the real attack surface lives. An agent that calls tools, reads untrusted content, and talks to MCP servers you have never inventoried is a different problem than a single model endpoint, and it needs a different answer.
That answer is three products working together. Discover AI inventories every AI app, agent, MCP server, and model you run, then grades the risk. Ascend AI red-teams those agents continuously with real adversarial prompts, rather than a one-time snapshot that goes stale the week your app changes. Defend AI enforces policy at runtime, blocking attacks and alerting your existing SOC. That scope is what resonated in the briefing, because it reflects the reality security teams are living with today, where agents reach well beyond the single model endpoint that older tools were built to watch.
What this means for you
You are responsible for securing the agents your business is shipping, and no award will do that work for you. What recognition like this can do is help you build a shortlist you trust. The Intellyx coverage shows that an independent firm spent real time with our approach and found it worth writing about, which is a solid reason to include Straiker as you weigh how to secure your agentic stack.
If you want to see how it maps to your environment, we are happy to walk through it. Straiker is The Agentic Security Company, and we would rather show you the map than talk about the plaque.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Intellyx Digital Innovator Award? It is an annual recognition from Intellyx, an enterprise technology analyst firm focused on digital transformation. Now in its sixth year, the award goes to vendors who complete Intellyx's briefing selection process and deliver a briefing that earns analyst coverage that year. No purchase is required.
Why did Straiker win the 2026 award? Straiker won after a successful analyst briefing on its approach to agentic security: discovering, testing, and defending AI agents and the applications built around them. Intellyx noted that Straiker is among the near-200 best vendors it engaged over the prior two quarters.
What does Straiker do? Straiker secures agentic applications through three products. Discover AI inventories and grades AI agents, MCP servers, and models, Ascend AI runs continuous adversarial testing against them, and Defend AI enforces guardrails and blocks attacks at runtime.
Who is Straiker? Straiker is The Agentic Security Company, focused on helping enterprises secure the AI agents they build, deploy, and use.
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