Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing
Vendors or products added in this year’s report may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
Vendors or products dropped from one year to the next may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
Since Gartner's first publication of the Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing in 2013, the market has rapidly evolved alongside customer needs. Early AST solutions were designed for security teams to assess applications for risk just before deployment. However, as modern development practices and architectures emerged — including the adoption of AI — security teams struggled to keep pace, and existing tools failed to identify risks across the expanding attack surface. The market expanded to support modern architectures, automated testing within development workflows and created features designed to improve the developer experience. This year's Magic Quadrant emphasizes the importance of identifying risk in both applications and the software supply chain, while expanding focus to include features that help organizations manage and remediate those risks.
A: We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as markets change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix of vendors in any Magic Quadrant may change over time. A vendor's appearance in a Magic Quadrant one year and not the next does not necessarily indicate that we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It may be a reflection of a change in the market and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a change of focus by that vendor.