A year ago, AI security meant blocking employees from pasting customer data into ChatGPT. Today it means governing agents like Claude Code and Codex that hold local credentials, run commands, install MCP servers and skills, and act on an employee's behalf across your systems. That is a different problem, and most of the market is still catching up to it.
The 2026 Latio AI Security Market Report maps that transition. Built on Latio's hands-on product evaluations and a practitioner survey, it covers roughly 400 AI security vendors, explains how the category consolidated through a wave of acquisitions and then fractured again around the endpoint, and shows buyers how to match vendors to their priorities and existing stack.
What you'll find inside
- Practitioner survey results on AI security budgets, ownership, and the shift in primary concerns toward endpoint agents
- The evolution timeline: the 2024 foundations, the 2025 acquisition wave, and the 2026 endpoint vendors
- Frameworks for securing first-party agents (posture, testing, runtime guardrails) and third-party agents (supply chain, blast radius, prompt injection, workforce adoption)
- Market maps by starting technological approach and by outcome, plus a spectrum of emerging endpoint vendors
- A review of innovative capabilities including skills detonation, MCP and skills marketplaces, granular permissions, and intent-based detection
- A buyer's guide with decision trees for first- and third-party agent security, mapped to tools you may already own
- Vendor spotlights and Latio's 2026 award categories