TrendAI named Gartner EPP Magic Quadrant Leader for 21st year
TrendAI, the enterprise security arm of Trend Micro, has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), extending what the company describes as an unbroken run of 21 consecutive years in the Leaders quadrant. The recognition centres on its Vision One platform, which bundles endpoint protection, extended detection and response (XDR), and cyber risk exposure management (CREM) into a single console.
The accompanying 2026 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Endpoint Protection Platforms report placed TrendAI highest among all evaluated vendors for the Workspace Security and On-premises Endpoint Protection Management use cases, and second highest for Core Endpoint Protection. The company positioned the scores as evidence that Vision One can serve both modern cloud-hybrid estates and legacy on-premises environments from a single pane of glass.
Platform detail
Vision One is designed to provide centralised visibility across endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, email, networks, operational technology, IoT, and AI workloads. TrendAI argues this breadth allows security operations teams to map attack paths and prioritise remediation across an expanding attack surface, rather than context-switching between siloed tools.
The platform draws on intelligence from the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), which TrendAI describes as the world's largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty programme. The ZDI pipeline is intended to surface exploitable vulnerabilities before they are weaponised at scale, feeding threat intelligence into Vision One's detection models.
Salah Suleiman, Managing Director for South Gulf at TrendAI, said the Gartner recognition reflects the company's "continued commitment to delivering the innovation and protection organisations need to stay resilient." The release was issued from Dubai and references UAE-specific threat data: the UAE Cyber Security Council cites between 90,000 and 200,000 daily cyber breach attempts against the country's digital infrastructure, framing the market context for the Middle East push.
Market context
The EPP market is among the most competitive in enterprise cybersecurity. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint ships embedded in Windows and has become the default choice for many mid-market organisations, while CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Palo Alto Networks all hold strong positions in the Gartner Leaders quadrant. Consolidation pressure is significant: buyers are under budget scrutiny and are actively reducing the number of point tools they manage, which favours platforms that can absorb XDR, identity threat detection, and cloud workload protection into a single contract.
The EU's NIS2 Directive and the UAE's own National Cybersecurity Strategy both impose tighter incident reporting obligations on operators of essential services, raising the compliance cost of fragmented tooling and strengthening the commercial case for unified platforms. TrendAI's Critical Capabilities scores in the on-premises use case are particularly relevant for sectors such as energy, manufacturing, and financial services, where air-gapped or hybrid deployments remain common.
Outlook
TrendAI did not disclose new customer wins, contract volumes, or revenue figures in the release. The vendor's next significant milestones to watch are whether the ZDI intelligence pipeline earns independent third-party validation and whether Vision One secures FedRAMP authorisation, which would open US federal procurement channels currently dominated by CrowdStrike and Microsoft. The sustained Gartner placement provides sales leverage, but buyers will increasingly want published red-team results and independently verified mean-time-to-detect metrics to complement the analyst recognition.