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

Cambridge, UK, Might 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Darktrace, a worldwide chief in AI for cybersecurity, at this time introduced it has been acknowledged as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR) for the second consecutive yr.   

Darktrace is the one vendor to be acknowledged as each a Chief within the 2025 and 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and a 2025 Customers’ Choice for Network Detection and Response (NDR). We imagine this recognition displays Darktrace’s sustained means to execute, adapt and ship outcomes because the NDR market evolves, whereas underscoring continued confidence in our method to serving to organizations detect, examine and reply to threats throughout advanced environments. 

Darktrace takes a singular method to NDR, utilizing Self-Studying AI™ to constantly be taught every group’s regular patterns of exercise and detect deviations in actual time. This allows a extra proactive and pre-emptive mannequin of community safety, serving to groups establish early indicators of threat, together with identifying malicious activity before public vulnerability disclosures, and reply earlier than threats escalate. 

Darktrace continues to innovate throughout its NDR capabilities, advancing how AI may also help safety groups detect, perceive and reply to rising threats. Latest improvements embrace DIGEST, a brand new machine studying mannequin utilized by Darktrace’s Cyber AI Analyst™, that is trained on over one million anonymized incident graphs to predict which incidents are most certainly to escalate. DIGEST combines Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to interpret incident construction with Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to research how incidents evolve over time, serving to to reliably establish high-risk threats on the earliest phases – a key ingredient in Darktrace’s means to detect unknown and zero-day threats. Darktrace believes this recognition underscores the power of its distinctive multi-layered method to AI, first launched in 2013, combining supervised and unsupervised machine studying, behavioral evaluation, autonomous investigation and response to assist organizations keep forward of evolving threats which may be missed by conventional instruments. 

Darktrace’s inclusion on this Magic Quadrant follows latest recognition from clients, with Darktrace / NETWORK™ acknowledged as the only Customers Choice Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ for Network Detection and Response. Darktrace is the most-reviewed NDR resolution on Gartner® Peer Insights™ with a 4.8 out of 5 score based mostly on 612 actual buyer opinions as of twentieth Might 2026. Clients spotlight: 

• “The product excels at detecting anomalous community habits utilizing AI-driven fashions and supplies real-time visibility into inbound/outbound visitors. The true benefit is the autonomous response characteristic, serving to comprise threats with out handbook intervention. The dashboards are intuitive and supply clear visualization of community actions.” – IT Security & Risk Management Associate, Software Industry  
• “The system learns our community habits and identifies uncommon patterns with out relying solely on predefined signatures. This offers us confidence in figuring out rising threats early.” – IT Security and Risk Management Manager, Retail Industry 
• “Darktrace NDR has wonderful model-based detection capabilities throughout varied MITRE assault eventualities and assist with many third-party integrations. It has assisted with proactive detection of real-world threats to make sure immediate incident response actions.” – Cyber Operations Lead, Media Industry 
• “Darktrace Community supplies sturdy visibility and safety throughout your complete community, utilizing AI-driven evaluation to detect anomalous and irregular behaviours and potential threats in actual time. Its means to adapt dynamically makes it a robust resolution for defending towards each identified and unknown assaults.” – Cybersecurity Specialist, IT Services Industry  

“As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are securing more and more advanced environments the place identities, SaaS purposes, cloud providers, and community exercise are extra interconnected than ever,” mentioned Chris Kozup, Chief Advertising Officer, Darktrace. “Darktrace helps safety groups transfer past reactive detection by studying every group’s distinctive enterprise, figuring out each identified and unknown threats and responding autonomously earlier than incidents escalate. We’re proud to be acknowledged as a Chief by Gartner for the second yr in a row, and imagine our place displays our continued AI innovation and confirmed supply of safety outcomes for patrons and companions worldwide.” 

Darktrace has obtained a lot of recognitions from Gartner over the previous yr together with being named a Chief within the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms and acknowledged as a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Email Security Platforms. Darktrace was additionally positioned because the only Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Protection Platforms. 

Extra Sources 

• Obtain a replica of the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Community Detection and Response here.  
• To learn extra about Darktrace’s recognition, try our weblog here.  
• Study extra about Darktrace / NETWORK on our web site here.   

Disclaimer: The 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Community Detection and Response (NDR), Thomas Lintemuth, Charanpal Bhogal, Nahim Fazal, 18 Might 2026.  

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About Darktrace    
Darktrace is a worldwide chief in AI for cybersecurity that retains organizations forward of the altering menace panorama day-after-day. Based in 2013, Darktrace supplies the important cybersecurity platform defending organizations from unknown threats utilizing its proprietary AI that learns from the distinctive patterns of life for every buyer in real-time. The Darktrace ActiveAI Safety Platform™ delivers a proactive method to cyber resilience to safe the enterprise throughout your complete digital property – from community to cloud to e-mail. It supplies pre-emptive visibility into the client’s safety posture, transforms operations with a Cyber AI Analyst™, and detects and autonomously responds to threats in real-time. Breakthrough improvements from our R&D groups in Cambridge, UK, and The Hague, Netherlands have resulted in over 250 patent purposes filed. Darktrace’s platform and providers are supported by over 2,300 staff world wide who defend almost 10,000 clients throughout all main industries globally. 

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