Darktrace / Network Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for NDR

Darktrace announced its recognition as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR).

“As digital environments become more complex and traditional network perimeters dissolve, organizations rely on Darktrace’s differentiated AI-based approach to detect and autonomously respond to known and novel threats,” said Chris Kozup, Chief Marketing Officer at Darktrace. “We believe that being named a Leader in Gartner’s inaugural Magic Quadrant for NDR is powerful validation of our ongoing innovation, market leadership and commitment to our customers. With the largest market share in the NDR market according to IDC, we’ve proven our ability to meet the demands of modern enterprises—empowering organizations to build proactive network resilience and scale security operations with AI.”

Darktrace / NETWORK takes a fundamentally different approach to NDR with its Self-Learning AI which learns what is normal for an organization’s entire network, to enable detection of both known and novel threats without relying on rules, signatures or historical attack data. This unique approach means that Darktrace / NETWORK excels at detecting sophisticated threats like previously unknown attacks, insider threats, or simply those missed by other approaches. We’ve regularly demonstrated the ability to detect malicious activity up to 11 days before public disclosure of a vulnerability.

Darktrace / NETWORK is not limited to traditional networks, it expands its full visibility and precise threat detection, investigation and response across the modern enterprise, spanning on-premises networks, virtual, cloud and hybrid environments, SaaS productivity tools, air-gapped OT and IoT devices, tracks identities, extends to remote worker endpoints natively or through Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) technologies, and has recently expanded support for encrypted traffic.

Designed to drive greater efficiency across the SOC, Darktrace / NETWORK leverages Cyber AI Analyst, a patented agentic AI system that autonomously performs end-to-end investigations. It can automatically triage all relevant alerts from Darktrace and 3rd party security tools, then prioritizes incidents, elevating security teams to focus on more proactive tasks. Cyber AI Analyst provides SOCs with the equivalent of up to 30 additional full-time employees performing Level 2 analysis and written reporting annually.

“Anomalies that seemed harmless to us were immediately flagged,” said Edward Massey, Department Head for Network Engineering, Telecommunications at DTC Communications, a leading provider of advanced telecommunication solutions. “Darktrace’s AI responded to those in real time, stopping incidents to give us time to investigate before they spread laterally or caused real damage. It’s a true game changer.”

“Darktrace handles multiple incidents simultaneously, alerting us only to the critical few while autonomously managing the rest,” added Massey.

As a core component of the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™, Darktrace / NETWORK extends beyond the boundaries of traditional NDR solutions—enabling customers to build and maintain proactive resilience. It allows security teams to proactively assess their security posture and identify, prioritize, and mitigate internal and external risks across the enterprise. Leveraging Darktrace’s deep understanding of each organization’s unique environment, attack path discovery, vulnerability prioritization, and tailored playbooks can help teams anticipate, detect, contain, and recover from cyber incidents more effectively.

Darktrace has received several recent acknowledgements highlighting the strength and innovation of its NDR solution. Darktrace was recognized as a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Network Detection and Response, as well as an overall leader in KuppingerCole’s 2024 Leadership Compass for NDR and was recently awarded Best Insider Threat Solution at the 2025 SC Awards.

Darktrace customers also consistently recognize the value of its solutions—which we believe is reflected in Darktrace / NETWORK’s 4.7 rating on Gartner® Peer Insights™, based on 385 reviews as of May 22, 2025.