Astrix Recognized in the 2025 Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem

TL;DR 

• Gartner^® Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem names Astrix as a sample vendor in the new Agentic AI Ecosystem Security category.
• Analysts position Agentic AI Ecosystem Security in the 1–3 year adoption ring with a “High” mass (broad, transformative impact)—highlighting urgent enterprise priority as AI agents scale.
• Why this matters: Gartner forecasts that over 60% of enterprises will secure the AI life cycle within an AI security platform by 2030 (from less than 10% in 2025). Through 2029, over 50% of successful cybersecurity attacks against AI agents will exploit access control issues.
  Gartner research projects over 50% of successful cybersecurity attacks against AI agents will exploit access control issues through 2029.
• What buyers expect from Agentic AI Ecosystem Security solutions:
  • Comprehensive AI agent discovery, observability, and control capabilities.
  • AI-native protections: posture management, behavioral analytics, and continuous testing..
  • Guardrails at scale, including usage controls for embedded/third-party AI and auditability for multi-agent workflows.
• This recognition is a powerful acknowledgment of the unique problem Astrix is designed to address. It builds on the momentum, including our recent inclusion in another Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Global Attack Surface Grid. Together, these recognitions validate that securing the new agentic AI era is best achieved through identity-first control of every non-human entity.

The Significance of the AI Cybersecurity Emerging Tech Impact Radar

The new Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem arrives at a critical juncture. The report notes that “AI presents significant risks and opportunities” and that leaders must move quickly to “harness emerging technologies to secure the AI life cycle”.

This isn’t just another trend; it’s a fundamental market shift. 

Gartner strategic planning assumptions highlight the velocity of this change, estimating that by 2030, “more than 60% of enterprises will secure the AI life cycle and various AI implementations within an AI security platform, up from less than 10% in 2025.”  

The report also predicts that “Through 2029, over 50% of successful cybersecurity attacks against AI agents will exploit access control issues, using direct or indirect prompt injection as an attack vector.”  This finding underscores that the threat is new, specific, and imminent, sending a crucial signal to the market: the identities and access controls of your AI agents are now a primary target.

Figure 1: Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem

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What is ‘Agentic AI Ecosystem Security’?

Given this new landscape, for the first time Gartner has identified “Agentic AI Ecosystem Security” as a critical emerging technology.

This category is defined as “an integrated framework designed to protect and govern advanced AI systems that operate with a high degree of autonomy within multiagent systems (MAS).” It is a holistic approach that covers everything from “the AI agent platform… behaviors and characteristics, identity and access management (IAM) implications” to “integrations and AI agent tool use that includes misconfigurations.”

The report highlights Astrix among sample vendors helping enterprises secure the full spectrum of AI agent ecosystems — from Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and inter-agent communications (A2A) to identity, memory, and behavior governance.

Gartner has placed this category in the “1 to 3 years” range to reach early majority adoption , an exceptionally fast timeline driven by the “rapid adoption of AI agent implementations.”. Furthermore, the category is rated a “High” mass, meaning Gartner assesses it as being “revolutionary for adopters and providers, requiring new capabilities”. 

As the report states, “Traditional security controls are inadequate for agentic AI systems” due to their “dynamic behaviors, external dependencies, and real-time decision-making capabilities.

Astrix: Built for the Agentic AI Era

The emergence of the Agentic AI Ecosystem Security category is a powerful validation of the mission Astrix has been on from day one. We were built for this era, even before it had a name.

That critical finding—that over 50% of attacks will exploit access control issues —is the precise problem we solve. Traditional security wasn’t built for a world of autonomous, agentic, and non-human identities. These AI agents, whether custom-built or embedded in platforms like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, connect to critical systems and data via a sprawling web of APIs and integrations. This creates a massive new, unmanaged attack surface.

Astrix delivers the “AI agent discovery, observability and control” that the report calls for. Our platform empowers security and identity teams to:

• Discover every AI agent along with its associated non-human identities (NHIs) and machine credentials — including API keys, service accounts, secrets, and more across environments.
• Secure them through continuous security posture management, threat detection & remediation by surfacing excessive privileges, vulnerable configurations, abnormal activity, and policy violations.
• Deploy new secure-by-design AI agents safely with Zero Trust access policies, just-in-time credentials, and audit trails enforced through the Astrix’s Agent Control Plane (ACP).

At Astrix, we’re thrilled to be recognized in this new category, which addresses the exact challenge we are purpose-built to solve.

Ready to see how Astrix helps enterprises discover, secure, and deploy AI agents responsibly across the enterprise? Book a demo today.