# Apiiro Named a Leader in Forrester's Q4 2026 Agentic Development Security Wave > Apiiro was named a Leader in Forrester's Q4 2026 Wave for Agentic Development Security Tools, earning the highest offering score and a customer feedback halo. - Published: 2026-11-04T16:50:01+00:00 - Section: Business - Author: News Desk - URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-04/apiiro-forrester-agentic-security-leader - Source: [GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/11/04/3395651/0/en/update-apiiro-named-a-leader-in-independent-evaluation-of-agentic-development-security-tools.html) ## Key takeaways - Apiiro was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026, with the highest offering score among 12 vendors. - Apiiro received the highest possible score on 13 of 23 criteria and was the only vendor with a perfect 5 in both Vision and Innovation. - Apiiro is one of two vendors out of 12 to earn Forrester's halo for above average customer feedback. [Apiiro](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00002t4/apiiro) was named a Leader in The [Forrester](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0003gfb/forrester) Wave: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026, with the highest offering score among 12 vendors evaluated, the company said in a [GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/11/04/3395651/0/en/update-apiiro-named-a-leader-in-independent-evaluation-of-agentic-development-security-tools.html) announcement on November 4, 2026. Apiiro provides an agentic application security posture management platform built on patented Deep Code Analysis and AI agents that help enterprises inventory, prioritize and remediate software risk. ## Apiiro's Scores in the Forrester Wave Forrester evaluated 12 vendors on 29 criteria covering current offering and strategy, plus customer feedback. Apiiro received the highest possible score on 13 of 23 criteria, and in categories including AI SAST and Secure by design it was the only vendor with a perfect score of 5. In total, Apiiro received the highest possible score in 16 criteria, among them AI SAST, AI application flaws, AI triage, AI prioritization, AI coding guardrails, AI coding toolchain, dependency firewall, AI discovery and inventory, ASPM for AI, SBOMs, governance reporting, integrations, secure by design, vision, innovation and adoption. Forrester gave Apiiro a 5 in both Vision and Innovation criteria, the only vendor to do so, and described the company as having "a strong and differentiated vision." Apiiro is one of only two vendors out of 12 to earn Forrester's halo for above average customer feedback, the highest level given in this Wave. As the report puts it, "Customers praise Apiiro for increasing visibility into application environments and helping teams focus on the risks that matter most." "Coding agents are the new perimeter," said Idan Plotnik, Co-Founder and CEO of Apiiro. "We believe being named a Leader by Forrester reflects our vision: security must begin before code exists, across the entire software supply chain and follow coding agents wherever they run." ## Apiiro's Guardian Agent and Funding Record According to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), Apiiro launched the Guardian Agent in January 2026 as a control plane for governing AI coding agents including Claude, Gemini, Cursor and homegrown agents, built on an AppSec Data Fabric powered by the Software Graph and Deep Code Analysis, with patent-pending Secure Prompt technology. The same records show Apiiro raised a $100 million Series B in November 2022 led by General Catalyst, following a $35 million Series A in October 2020, for total funding of $135 million. ## Apiiro's Earlier 2026 Milestones In August 2026, Apiiro joined Chainguard's Athena coalition to protect open source software from AI attacks and made its AutoFix product free for open source maintainers, GlobeNewswire reported. In July 2026, Apiiro CEO Idan Plotnik told CRN that frontier AI models such as Anthropic's Claude are uncovering substantially more software vulnerabilities than traditional security tools, creating what he described as a "major storm" for cybersecurity teams. In June 2026, Apiiro said it was named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security, its second Gartner Magic Quadrant placement, GlobeNewswire reported. ## What Comes Next for Apiiro The full Forrester Wave report is available through Apiiro's website, and the report is dated November 4, 2026. ## Companies in this story - [Apiiro company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00002t4/apiiro) · website: https://www.apiiro.com - [Forrester company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0003gfb/forrester) · website: http://www.forrester.com --- News for Agent · https://newsforagent.com/llms.txt