Darktrace Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response for the Second Consecutive Year

June 1, 2026 – Darktrace (Cambridge, UK; CEO: Ed Jennings), a global leader in AI cybersecurity, today announced that it has been positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR) for the second consecutive year. Darktrace is the only vendor to be recognized as a Leader in the 2025 and 2026 Gartner® NDR Magic Quadrant™ reports and to be named a Customers’ Choice in the same category in 2025. We believe this recognition reflects Darktrace’s consistent execution and adaptability in the evolving NDR market, as well as our ability to deliver results and the ongoing trust in our approach to helping organizations detect, investigate, and respond to threats across diverse environments. Through its unique approach to NDR, Darktrace uses Self-Learning AI™ to continuously learn the normal patterns of activity for each organization and detect deviations in real time. This enables a more proactive and preemptive network security model, helping security teams identify early signs of risk. For example, by detecting malicious activity before a vulnerability is publicly disclosed, organizations can respond before a threat escalates. Darktrace’s NDR capabilities continue to innovate, evolving how AI assists in detecting, understanding, and responding to new threats. Recent innovations include DIGEST, a new machine learning model used in Darktrace’s Cyber AI Analyst™. Trained on over one million anonymized incident graphs, this model can predict which incidents are most likely to escalate. DIGEST combines Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to interpret incident structure and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to analyze how incidents evolve over time, helping to reliably identify high-risk threats at the earliest stage. This is a key element in Darktrace’s ability to detect unknown and zero-day threats. We believe this recognition confirms the strength of Darktrace’s unique multi-layered AI approach, first introduced in 2013. This approach combines supervised and unsupervised machine learning, behavioral analysis, and autonomous investigation and response to help organizations stay ahead of evolving threats that traditional tools often miss. This recognition in the NDR Magic Quadrant™ follows Darktrace being named the sole Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Network Detection and Response report. Darktrace is the most reviewed NDR solution in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Network Detection and Response category, with a 4.8 rating (out of 5) based on 612 actual customer reviews as of May 20, 2026. Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer at Darktrace, stated: 'As AI adoption accelerates, organizations must protect increasingly complex environments where identity, SaaS applications, cloud services, and network activity are more interconnected than ever. Darktrace helps security teams move beyond passive detection by learning each organization’s unique business, identifying known and unknown threats, and autonomously responding before incidents escalate. We are proud to be recognized as a Leader in the NDR Magic Quadrant™ for the second consecutive year, a position we believe reflects our continued AI innovation and our track record of delivering security outcomes to customers and partners worldwide.' Darktrace also received numerous recognitions from Gartner last year, including being named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security and a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Email Security Platforms category. Furthermore, Darktrace was the only vendor recognized as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CPS Protection Platforms report.