TrendAI™ Recognized by Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Its 21st Consecutive Year of Endpoint Protection Leadership

Rashad Iskandrni

The company's 21st consecutive Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader recognition reflects its commitment to helping organizations strengthen cyber resilience through AI-powered endpoint protection and unified security.

RIYADH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – August 2026 – TrendAI™, the enterprise AI security business of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP). The recognition marks TrendAI™'s 21st consecutive year as a Leader, extending its legacy of leadership to more than two decades, showcasing the company's global leadership in helping organizations secure an expanding attack surface with AI-powered endpoint protection, unified security operations, and proactive cyber risk management through TrendAI Vision One™.

As Saudi Arabia accelerates its digital transformation ambitions under Vision 2030, organizations across the public and private sectors are placing greater emphasis on strengthening cyber resilience. The National Cybersecurity Authority's Key Economic Indicators in the Cybersecurity Sector report identifies Endpoint Security and Management as one of the Kingdom's leading cybersecurity priorities, reinforcing the growing importance of modern endpoint protection in securing increasingly complex enterprise environments.

To help organizations strengthen cyber resilience while simplifying increasingly complex security operations, TrendAI Vision One™ delivers comprehensive endpoint protection through a unified cybersecurity platform. Combining Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and AI-powered security operations, the platform provides centralized visibility across endpoints, cloud environments, identities, email, networks, operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and AI workloads. This enables security teams to proactively identify, prioritize, and mitigate cyber risks while improving operational efficiency across the entire attack surface.

"The AI era demands continuous evolution in cybersecurity, and TrendAI Vision One™ continues to advance to help organizations stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats through AI-powered, unified protection," said Wasna Ben Gassem, Managing Director, KSA, TrendAI™. "Being recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the 21st consecutive year is a testament to our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer success, and the dedication of our global teams, whose expertise helps organizations stay ahead of an ever-evolving threat landscape."

In the accompanying 2026 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Endpoint Protection Platforms report, TrendAI™ achieved the highest scores among all evaluated vendors for the Workspace Security and On-premises Endpoint Protection Management use cases, while also receiving the second-highest score for Core Endpoint Protection. These results further demonstrate the platform's ability to secure modern hybrid environments while simplifying security operations through a unified cybersecurity platform.

TrendAI Vision One™ is further strengthened by intelligence from the TrendAI™ Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI), the world's largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program, enabling organizations to identify vulnerabilities before they are widely exploited and respond to emerging threats with greater speed and confidence. Together with AI-driven threat intelligence and attack path analysis, the platform helps organizations proactively manage cyber risk and strengthen resilience across today's expanding attack surface.