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Darktrace named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms

Darktrace named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms

Darktrace named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™  for Email Security Platforms

Darktrace is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms, delivering AI-native protection, superior customer experience, and integrated defenses that strengthen and extend modern security stacks.

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Max Taggett, Nikul Patel, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security

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Strength 1: Operations

Darktrace’s headcount, especially in theareas of technical customer support and analytic roles, increased significantly over the past year, surpassing other leaders in the Magic Quadrant.

Strength 2: Product strategy

Darktrace’s product roadmap is aligned with the emerging needs of its target customers.

Strength 3: Market understanding

The company’s product roadmap is well-positioned to create opportunities against its targeted competition and increase its value proposition as an augmentation to native email controls.

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Darktrace is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms, delivering AI-native protection, superior customer experience, and integrated defenses that strengthen and extend modern security stacks.

In the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms, Darktrace has been positioned as a Leader.

This follows the recent recognition of Darktrace as a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Email Security – the only named vendor in EMEA (one of three vendors globally).  

In our eyes, these recognitions reflect what our customers have known for years: our product is exceptional, and so is the way we deliver it.

We believe Darktrace was placed in the upper-right quadrant for several key reasons:

  • Our relentless innovation which drives proven results, with industry-first AI-native detection and response capabilities that go beyond traditional SEG approaches
  • We deliver exceptional customer experiences worldwide, with award-winning customer support, dedicated teams, and local expertise
  • We play well with others, enhancing security stacks rather than creating silos, with a partner-first architecture, best-in-breed platform, and tight integrations for your extended ecosystem – including a strategic partnership with Microsoft

Read the report to get the Gartner view on the state of the email security market, and see why we believe Darktrace is setting the standard for business-centric behavioral anomaly detection.

Gartner, Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Email Security Platforms, Max Taggett, Nikul Patel, 3 December 2025

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