Endor Labs named Leader in Forrester agentic security report

Endor Labs was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026, and received the highest possible score across seven evaluation criteria. The company said the result reflects its approach to securing the agentic development lifecycle (ADLC), an area it describes as rapidly evolving.

Organizations increasingly rely on AI coding agents to write, modify, and deploy software, which shifts the application security landscape. Coding agents can now select dependencies, execute commands, and change application code on their own, creating security decisions and risks that extend past traditional application security testing. Addressing them calls for an approach that governs agent behavior, evaluates the software agents produce, and provides remediation guidance throughout development.

Endor Labs connects to coding agents through Model Context Protocol (MCP), skills, command-line interfaces, and APIs, bringing security into the environments where those agents operate. Its platform applies security policies to supported agent actions through native hooks, and it continuously analyzes application code and dependencies to rank vulnerabilities by priority using deep application context.

The platform also includes Endor Labs Package Firewall, which evaluates open source packages at installation time to help keep risky dependencies out of the development environment. It integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Devin to deliver security guidance and remediation within existing development processes.

The company describes the platform as built for the expanding security requirements of AI-driven software development. It brings together agent governance, application security testing, dependency protection, and AI-powered remediation inside developers’ existing workflows.

Varun Badhwar, CEO and co-founder of Endor Labs, said, “AI agents are fundamentally changing how software gets built, and security needs to evolve just as quickly.” Badhwar also said, “We believe our recognition as a Leader reflects the importance of securing the entire agentic development lifecycle, from the actions agents take to the code they produce.”

The company states that pairing this context with consistent security controls and actionable guidance will grow in importance as enterprises expand agentic development.