ExtraHop Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response Two Years Running

ExtraHop has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR) for the second consecutive year.

Evaluated on both Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, this recognition follows our placement in the inaugural 2025 Gartner MQ for NDR, when the category earned its first dedicated Magic Quadrant and formally established network detection and response as a pillar of modern enterprise security.

For us, the second consecutive placement matters as much as the first. One year is a snapshot. Two years is a pattern.

For security teams evaluating NDR platforms, we believe this recognition carries a specific kind of weight: it's independent, third-party confirmation from an analyst firm enterprises trust for infrastructure decisions.

And this recognition isn’t the only one.

ExtraHop has also been named a Leader across every major analyst evaluation in the category:

• The 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response (NDR)
• The Forrester Wave™: Network Analysis and Visibility Solutions (Q4 2025)
• The 2025 GigaOm Radar for Network Detection and Response (NDR) Solutions
• The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Network Detection and Response 2024 Vendor Assessment

Each uses a different methodology, and we believe consistent top-tier placement across all four is more than a marketing position — it's a pattern of independent validation that means something when you're choosing a platform you'll run your security program on.

What Is Network Detection and Response and Why Does It Matter Now?

Network detection and response (NDR) is a security technology that continuously monitors network traffic for anomalies, suspicious patterns, and threat indicators across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Unlike endpoint detection tools, NDR operates at the network layer; the one surface in the enterprise that every device, user, application, and workload must traverse and the one surface attackers cannot avoid.

As the threat landscape shifts, NDR has never been more important.

Attackers no longer announce themselves at the door.

They slip in through legitimate credentials, move laterally inside trusted workflows, and conduct their operations inside encrypted traffic that most security tools can't see into. They live off the land, using tools and protocols already present in the environment because it makes them harder to detect.

The emergence of AI-assisted attacks has accelerated this problem significantly. In a Post-Mythos world, adversaries can automate reconnaissance, adapt lateral movement in real time, and mimic legitimate traffic patterns at machine speed. They're designed to be invisible to tools that rely on indicators of compromise and they move faster than any human analyst can manually track.

This is the context in which enterprises are increasingly investing in the agentic SOC, which is made up of AI-driven security operations that can autonomously triage, investigate, and respond to threats.

But the agentic SOC is only as effective as the data feeding it. The network is the one source of ground truth that sees everything, every movement, every encrypted session, every anomalous behavior.

NDR is no longer just a detection tool. It's the data foundation the agentic SOC runs on. And that's why the top NDR platforms have become strategic infrastructure, no longer just ‘nice to haves.’

Why ExtraHop Is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for NDR

ExtraHop is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for NDR because it demonstrates sustained strength on both dimensions Gartner evaluates: Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

Ability to Execute assesses whether a vendor's product delivers real results: product capability, customer experience, market responsiveness, and the operational reality of running the platform in production.

Completeness of Vision assesses whether a vendor understands where the NDR market is going and has a credible, differentiated strategy to get there, including innovation roadmap, go-to-market strength, and the ability to anticipate customer needs before they become urgent.

Both axes matter for a long-term platform decision. A vendor with strong execution but limited vision ships a good product today and falls behind tomorrow. A vendor with compelling vision but weak execution makes great presentations and struggles in production. The Leader quadrant requires sustained strength on both simultaneously.

ExtraHop has held that position for two consecutive years, and reinforced it by maintaining the second highest revenue in NDR in 2025 (Gartner®, Market Share: Enterprise Network Equipment by Market Segment, Worldwide, 4Q25).

We believe that market position reflects enterprises choosing ExtraHop not as a proof-of-concept, but as the operational backbone of their security programs, renewing and expanding over time.

What Makes ExtraHop One of the Top NDR Platforms Available Today

The ExtraHop RevealX NDR platform is built on three capabilities that define what a modern, enterprise-grade NDR platform needs to deliver.

Together, we believe they explain why ExtraHop is consistently recognized as a leading solution for the world's most demanding security environments.

The Depth of Data That Enables the Agentic SOC

ExtraHop is built on a data profile designed to give security teams — and the AI agents increasingly working alongside them — the fullest possible picture of network activity.

ExtraHop analyzes more than 5,000 data points across OSI layers 2 through 7, spanning users, devices, files, applications, flows, sessions, and dependency graphs across both encrypted and unencrypted traffic, continuously and at scale.

This isn't traffic monitoring. It's full-stack behavioral intelligence: the application- and session-layer context that reveals not just that a connection happened, but what it meant, whether it was normal, and what it may indicate about attacker behavior.

The encrypted traffic problem is where that depth becomes decisive.

The majority of enterprise network communications (and a growing share of attacker activity) is encrypted. NDR solutions that can't see inside are operating with a structural blind spot.

ExtraHop, however, delivers native decryption at line rate, with fluency across nearly 100 protocols, including Microsoft RPC workflows, one of the most commonly exploited vectors for lateral movement and credential-based attacks.

The platform’s cloud-scale machine learning engine continuously models normal behavior across every device, user, application, and service, building dynamic baselines that adapt as environments evolve. The result is behavioral detection that identifies what static rules can't: threats with no known signature, lateral movement that looks legitimate in isolation but deviates from established patterns in context, and applications communicating with destinations they've never touched before.

Always-on full packet capture is also integrated directly into the platform. When a detection fires, the raw packet evidence is already indexed and queryable; analysts don't pivot to a separate forensics tool or manually replay traffic.

The irrefutable evidence of what happened, what was accessed, and what path an attacker took is immediately available, compressing mean time to respond (MTTR) from hours to minutes.

For the agentic SOC, this is what separates functional AI agents from unreliable ones. High-fidelity, cross-domain network context gives AI agents the full picture of an attack as it unfolds. That context enables accurate triage without human confirmation, confident investigation without manual correlation, and autonomous response that doesn't generate the false positives that erode trust in the system.

Enterprise-Grade Scale and Speed

ExtraHop is built for the environments where performance requirements are most unforgiving.

The platform supports ingestion up to 400Gb/s, making it one of the highest-throughput NDR platforms available for large enterprise, financial services, federal government, and critical infrastructure deployments.

ExtraHop was also among the first to bring high-capacity ingestion appliances to production at scale — capabilities that matter for large organizations and deliver advantages at every scale as traffic volumes grow, environments expand, and attack surfaces multiply.

One Consolidated NDR Platform

ExtraHop is designed to consolidate and displace the standalone tools that create gaps, failed correlations, and operational overhead in fragmented security stacks.

The ExtraHop RevealX NDR platform is a unified platform, not a collection of integrated point solutions sharing a dashboard. NDR, network performance monitoring (NPM), intrusion detection (IDS), and full packet forensics operate within one architecture, sharing the same telemetry pipeline, the same behavioral analysis engine, and the same console.

The result is a SOC that operates from a single, complete picture of the network — no context lost between tools, no manual correlation filling the gaps, no investigation stalled waiting on data from a separate system.

That effectiveness is amplified by AI-native workflows and deep ecosystem integrations.

Smart Triage and Smart Investigations automatically correlate events into unified attack narratives, so analysts spend time making decisions rather than assembling evidence. A natural-language AI Search Assistant removes query complexity from high-pressure investigations.

And out-of-the-box integrations across the security stack, including CrowdStrike, Microsoft, Google, and more, ensure ExtraHop's network context flows into the tools security teams already rely on, creating a force multiplier across the entire SOC.

The Foundation Your SOC Needs

Four independent analyst evaluations. Consistent leadership.

For CISOs evaluating NDR platforms, we believe the convergence of independent validation is the clearest signal that ExtraHop executes on its vision and has the trajectory to continue doing so.

For SOC teams building toward the agentic SOC, the data foundation you choose now determines what your AI agents will be capable of. High-fidelity network context is the difference between agents that accelerate operations and agents that amplify noise.

The network is the ground truth. ExtraHop is how you put it to work.

Read a complimentary copy of the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response 2026, By Thomas Lintemuth, Charanpal Bhogal, Nahim Fazal, May 2026

Gartner, Market Share: Enterprise Network Equipment by Market Segment, Worldwide, 4Q25, By Gurjyot Uppal, Vivek Tiwari and Christian Canales, February 2026

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