Gartner Ranks Apiiro #1 in ASPM in 2025 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST)

Apiiro ranked number one in ASPM capabilities among all vendors with critical AST capabilities.

Apiiro has been recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing (AST). This marks Apiiro’s first appearance in a Magic Quadrant, and it comes with a notable distinction: Gartner ranked Apiiro #1 for Application Security Posture Management (ASPM).

These results validate Apiiro’s focus on the areas where application security teams are under the most pressure today. Application security programs must keep pace with 3-4x more complex code and 10x more risks due to the rapid adoption of AI-driven development and rapid software release cycles. Apiiro’s deep capabilities in ASPM and SSCS uniquely address these realities, giving organizations the ability to manage risk across design, development, and runtime in a unified way.

This recognition is also a reflection of the close partnerships we’ve built with our customers and ecosystem partners. Their trust, feedback, and collaboration continue to shape how we innovate and prioritize, helping us focus on the real challenges security and development teams face today.

Breaking Down Gartner’s Recognition

The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluates vendors on two dimensions: Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Vendors in the Niche Player quadrant are often highly specialized, with deep capabilities in targeted areas rather than broad coverage across the entire market.

For Apiiro, when it comes to Application Security Testing (AST), our depth is intentional. Our placement in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reflects that we’re not trying to replicate decades-old, commoditized static testing models.

Instead, Apiiro is redefining the category with an entirely new approach – discovering, inventorying, and visualizing each customer’s unique Software Graph from code-to-runtime through our patented Deep Code Analysis (DCA) technology. This allows us to accurately determine whether AST findings represent real risks based on the customer’s specific software architecture, organizational policies, and runtime context.

Building on that software intelligence layer, Apiiro’s AutoFix AI Agent automatically triages the AST findings to reduce false positives and remediates only the risks to the business. This comprehensive approach unifies application security posture across design, code, and the modern software supply chain end-to-end.

This focus is further reinforced by the Critical Capabilities for Application Security Testing section, where Gartner ranked Apiiro first for ASPM and second for SSCS.

#1 in ASPM

Application security leaders are looking for better ways to consolidate fragmented findings from SAST, SCA, DAST, Secrets, IaC, cloud tools and manual Threat Models and pen testing into a single risk management platform, to avoid chasing false positives that bury important findings. Our top ranking in this capability reflects our effectiveness in mapping code to runtime context and helping enterprises surface and prioritize the security risks that matter the most.

#2 in SSCS

Supply chain attacks, from dependency poisoning to secrets exposure in code, are on the rise, quickly turning software integrity into a board-level concern. Gartner’s #2 ranking for Apiiro in this use case recognizes our ability to detect and control risks across open source components, internal packages, and developer workflows before they reach production.

Rather than optimizing for legacy AST requirements, Apiiro has concentrated on the challenges that define today’s AppSec agenda: contextualizing, deduplicating, validating and consolidating risk across tools, manual processes and environments, strengthening the software supply chain against rising attacks, and enabling developers to deliver secure software faster. Gartner’s rankings in ASPM and SSCS confirm the value of this strategy.

Apiiro’s Approach: Next-Generation AST

Apiiro’s solution represents a fundamentally different way of approaching application security testing. Traditional AST tools analyze code in isolation and generate long lists of potential vulnerabilities. Apiiro takes a connected, risk-centric path rooted in deep software intelligence.

• Step 1 – Discover the Software Inventory: Deep Code Analysis (DCA): Gartner recognized Apiiro’s patented Deep Code Analysis (DCA) technology as the foundation behind its #1 ASPM ranking. Unlike traditional scanners that analyze isolated files or even across files, DCA continuously analyzes entire codebases across their full history with a unified call-flow and code-to-runtime reachability engine – discovering, inventorying, and visualizing every code resource as it evolves over time and automatically matching them to runtime resources.
  
  That includes APIs, code modules, data models, sensitive data, open source dependencies, internally developed packages, dockerfile, AI models, AI agents, MCP servers, secrets, technologies and artifacts – all tracked across material changes.
  
  The result is a living software graph inventory that dynamically reflects how software truly changes in the real world.
  
• Step 2 – Build the Software Graph: Next, DCA outputs are connected into a continuously updated Software Graph with maps code resources to deployed environments. This provides context such as internet exposure, deployment location, and compensating controls – the basis for a unique risk-based prioritization. This is also being used for automated threat models without relying on development teams to generate accurate software architecture diagrams across every material change.

• Step 3 – Automate, Detect, Prioritize, Fix, & Prevent: Findings from Apiiro’s own 1st-party scanners (SAST, SCA, Secrets, API Security, IaC, SSCS) and from 3rd-party tools are normalized, correlated, deduplicated, and contextualized on the Software Graph – enriched with the organizational policies, runtime context, and business impact.
  
  The result is far more than a vulnerability list – it’s a dynamic software risk picture that reveals exploitability, blast radius, and toxic combinations across the software architecture.
  
  Leveraging DCA’s ability to detect material code changes, Apiiro can proactively and automatically trigger threat models or penetration testing whenever significant changes introduce new potential risks to the business.

Unified and Seamless Developers Experience

Apiiro seamlessly connects this deep analysis, visibility, and risk-based context directly to the developer experience through integrations with IDEs, PR workflows, and CI/CD. Tying software intelligence into the all stages of the software development lifecycle enables risks to be caught earlier, then automatically triaged, fixed, and prevented faster in ways that minimize false positives and reduce friction for developers and application security teams. This reduces burden on developers and security teams alike, who share the responsibility for assessing and remediating software risks.

Advancing AppSec with the AutoFix AI Agent

Apiiro recently launched a product that’s level-setting AppSec for the era of AI coding assistants, which have amplified existing pressures and introduced new ones. Introduced in August 2025, AutoFix brings validated, context-aware remediation directly into developer workflows. It pulls insights directly from Apiiro’s Software Graph to the IDE in order to propose in-flow AutoTriage and coding fixes that take into account customer’s specific software architecture graph, organizational policies, and runtime context – all context areas coding assistants miss. This ensures that newly written code is not only functionally correct, but also secure and compliant with the enterprise’s specific policies. 

While AutoFix was not eligible for inclusion in the 2025 Magic Quadrant or Critical Capabilities due to its recent release, it reinforces the vision in which Apiiro is moving: not just identifying risk, but closing the loop with automated, developer-native triage and remediation. For customers, that means less time lost to false positives and more time delivering secure software faster.

Leading the Next Era of Agentic Application Security

Apiiro’s first appearance in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing is accompanied by top ranking in the Critical Capabilities report: #1 in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM). These results underscore Apiiro’s strength in helping application security teams unify risk, protect the software supply chain, and protect AI-assistent vibe coding from the prompt (design) to the code (development) to runtime (delivery). We’re deeply grateful to our customers and partners who’ve helped us reach this milestone.

Apiiro is continuing to expand its capabilities across design, code, and supply chain, and with new advancements such as the AutoFix AI Agent, we are extending application security beyond detection toward validated remediation and proactive, contextual prevention.

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