Apiiro Named Leader in Agentic Development Security Tools

NEW YORK, Nov. 04, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Apiiro, a leader in agentic development and software supply chain security, has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026. This recognition highlights the company's comprehensive approach to securing coding agents and the broader software supply chain.

Coding agents have unleashed a new wave of software supply chain chaos, expanding the attack surface and introducing vulnerabilities and policy violations. Security teams are struggling to manage this chaos, as coding agents continuously generate new code, download dependencies, and execute commands across endpoints and cloud environments. This ongoing process creates an urgent need for a unified control plane for Agentic Development Security (ADS).

Existing security controls, such as code scanners and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, leave critical gaps. Code scanners identify vulnerabilities after code is generated but do not provide the necessary context to prevent them. EDR tools protect monitored endpoints but lack deep code analysis capabilities and software architecture context, making them ineffective against unknown malware hidden in dependencies.

Apiiro's Guardian Agent addresses these challenges by providing a unified control plane for multi-coding agents and multi-models across endpoints and cloud environments. It operates on Apiiro’s Context Graph, which maps architecture, data flows, AI assets, and ownership from code to runtime, and the Risk Graph, which turns raw findings into risks based on real exposure and business impact.

Guardian Agent offers three key capabilities: - Guardian Prevent: Continuously performs AI threat modeling on every specification, plan, and design, enriching prompts with dynamic security context to prevent coding agents from generating vulnerable or non-compliant code. - Guardian AutoFix: Reduces vulnerability backlogs by automatically fixing software assurance testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), secrets, infrastructure as code (IaC), API, and container risks, while running tests to avoid breaking changes. - Guardian Protect: Discovers shadow AI, inventories dependencies and AI tools across endpoints and cloud host agents, and blocks unknown malware and backdoors.

Forrester evaluated 12 vendors on 29 criteria, covering current offering and strategy, plus customer feedback. Apiiro was named a Leader with the highest offering score. It received the highest possible score on 13 of 23 criteria and the highest possible score in 16 criteria, including AI SAST, AI application flaws, AI triage, AI prioritization, AI coding guardrails, AI coding toolchain, dependency firewall, AI discovery and inventory, application security posture management (ASPM) for AI, software bill of materials (SBOMs), governance reporting, integrations, secure by design, vision, innovation, and adoption.

Apiiro's vision and innovation were also recognized, with the company receiving a perfect score in both the Vision and Innovation criteria. Apiiro is the only vendor with a 5 in both categories and is recognized as having "a strong and differentiated vision."

Apiiro's customers also praised the company, with Apiiro being one of only two vendors to earn Forrester’s halo for above-average customer feedback, the highest level given in this Wave.

This recognition underscores Apiiro's commitment to addressing the evolving challenges in agentic development and software supply chain security.