NEW YORK, June 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Apiiro, the Guardian Agent acting as the control plane for Agentic Development Security, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Supply Chain Security. The recognition marks Apiiro’s second Gartner Magic Quadrant placement and, in our view, reflects a decisive market shift toward securing the agentic development by seamlessly preventing coding agents from generating risk before vulnerable or non-compliant code and artifacts ever exist.
Every era of security has had a perimeter, and every era has watched that perimeter move from the network to the endpoint to the cloud to the browser. Now, the perimeter is moving again to coding agents.
A Perfect Storm Is Reshaping Agentic Development Security.
While coding agents may write more code, they do not eliminate risk – they shift it and expand it. They introduce more complex business logic, architectural, and compliance risks into code, while creating a new attack surface that targets the software supply chain.
This calls for an industry-wide shift from detecting risk after code and artifacts are created to preventing risk before code and artifacts are created and blocking vulnerable supply chain components.
Two forces are converging to redefine how enterprises design, develop, and deliver secure software in the agentic era. Each one breaks the assumptions that traditional, detection-first AppSec was built on.
The first storm, the “Claude-Storm,” is driven by the explosive adoption of multiple AI coding agents across the enterprise. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others now design, write, test, and deploy code to production, producing 5x more code and 10x more risk. At the same time, AI coding agents themselves have become part of the attack surface and prime targets for software supply chain attacks – from poisoned Jira tickets or GitHub issues that shift attacks into the design phase, to malicious skills, vulnerable MCP servers, and compromised extensions.
The second storm, the “Mythos-Storm,” is the rise of offensive AI agents that can discover and exploit vulnerabilities 20x faster than human attackers, compressing the window between when a vulnerability is introduced and when it can be exploited.
Together, they form a perfect storm: coding agents become prime targets, more code and more risk pour in from agentic development, and offensive agents race to exploit it faster than humans can fix it.
On top of these two storms, two trends make the urgency even greater. First, coding agents are moving from local IDEs to cloud-hosted environments, making endpoint controls insufficient. Second, agentic development is shifting from simple prompting to autonomous execution from specs, making the design phase a target for attackers and making pull-request review too late and too slow to serve as the primary gate.
“This perfect storm makes coding agents every attacker’s dream. Every Fortune 500 enterprise we work with has adopted AI coding agents at scale. Those agents are now producing far more code – and far more risk – than any scan-and-triage workflow was ever designed to handle, while offensive AI agents race to exploit vulnerabilities faster than humans can fix them,” said Idan Plotnik, Co-Founder and CEO of Apiiro. “The software supply chain is under threat from AI-generated code across internal packages, open source, secrets, and third-party components. You don’t weather that storm by scanning with more tools. Apiiro Guardian Agent governs coding agents and prevents vulnerable, non-compliant code before it is generated.”
Apiiro Guardian Agent
The Guardian Agent is the control plane for Agentic Development Security. Apiiro Guardian is the AI AppSec Agent that helps CISOs secure everything in the agentic development era. It provides a single security platform to govern and protect multiple AI coding agents – Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and homegrown alike – integrates with the AppSec tools and processes you already run, and progressively consolidates them to reduce risk and cost, and meet compliance at AI speed.
Guardian delivers this through:
- The AppSec Data Fabric. It continuously discovers, inventories, and visualizes each customer’s evolving software architecture from code to runtime, and maps it to business risk. Powered by the Software Graph – built on patented Deep Code Analysis (DCA) – and the Risk Graph, it gives Guardian the context to prevent and AutoFix risk.
- Seamless prevention. Guardian operates seamlessly inside developers’ IDEs, CLIs, and coding agent tools with no disruption, preventing vulnerable and non-compliant code before it exists. Its patented Secure Prompt technology enriches prompts with dynamic software architecture and policy context from the AppSec Data Fabric.
- AutoTriage and AutoFix. Anything that slips through is automatically triaged and fixed before it reaches the source control manager with context from the AppSec Data Fabric to avoid breaking the build.
The complimentary Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security is available here. To see how Apiiro Guardian Agent governs AI coding agents and prevents vulnerable, non-compliant code before it’s ever generated, schedule a demo or email guardian@apiiro.com.
Supporting Resources
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing, By Jason Gross, Mark Horvath, et al., 6 October 2025.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Software Supply Chain Security, Aaron Lord, Johnny Walters, Jason Gross, 17 June 2026.
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About Apiiro
Apiiro Guardian Agent is the control plane for Agentic Development Security. It helps CISOs reduce risk, reduce costs, and meet compliance by seamlessly governing AI coding agents and preventing them from generating vulnerable or non-compliant code before it exists.
Fortune 500 companies, including BlackRock, TIAA, USAA, Bloomberg, SoFi, and Shell, rely on Apiiro’s patented Deep Code Analysis technology to continuously discover, inventory, and visualize their software architecture graph from code to runtime. This enables automated risk assessment, detection, prioritization, and prevention at enterprise scale.
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