Highest score in Strategy Category, and the highest possible scores in criteria including Vision, Roadmap, and Partner ecosystem, as AI agents become active participants in building software.
BOSTON, November 4, 2026 — Snyk, the AI security company, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026 report.¹ Snyk received the highest score in the Strategy category and the highest possible scores for the current offerings criteria in AI dynamic testing, AI coding guardrails, autonomous proprietary code remediation, and developer experience.
The report puts it plainly: “AI coding agents are changing how software is built, moving from developer assistants to active participants in development workflows.” Those agents now generate code, select dependencies, and invoke external tools with minimal human oversight. In our view, security models built to scan code after it is written were not designed to govern the systems creating it.
A decade of conviction, pointed at where software is created now
Snyk has operated on a core belief for more than a decade: security belongs where software is created. We believe agentic development moves that point of creation inside the agent workflow, and that is where the Snyk AI Security Platform is built to operate. Forrester’s evaluation states, “Snyk articulates a farsighted vision to secure AI-written code, the agents that run it, and the applications they build, while advancing secure-at-inception development and governance.”
“AI agents are now active participants in building software, and security has to be built for that reality, not retrofitted to it,” said Ken MacAskill, CEO of Snyk. “We believe our placement as a Leader, and receiving the highest score in the Strategy category, reflects a belief we have held for more than a decade: security belongs where software is created. Today that means securing the code, the AI workforce, and the AI applications, and proving that it holds.”
On capabilities, the Report states that “Snyk brings security into developer and AI coding agent workflows through autofix and coding guardrails that secure AI- and human-generated code and block risky agent actions.” It points to “strong AI dynamic testing” that “uncovers business logic flaws and vulnerability chains and validates findings with working exploits.”
What we’ve launched in market this year
This year, Snyk expanded the Snyk AI Security Platform with Evo by Snyk, a suite of agent-native security solutions that secure, protect, and govern AI-driven development across three loops: the code artifact, the AI workforce, and the AI applications teams build. In our view, Forrester’s report takes a broader view of agentic development security, and that breadth reflects how Evo by Snyk is designed. We believe the capabilities Forrester assessed align with each Evo solution below.
- Evo Agentic AppSec: Secure the code artifact. AI security agents that find, fix, and block vulnerabilities at the speed agents write code, with every result verified independently. This includes Snyk Studio for real-time guidance in AI coding workflows and Snyk Secrets for blocking leaked credentials.
Evo Agentic AppSec: Secure the code artifact. AI security agents that find, fix, and block vulnerabilities at the speed agents write code, with every result verified independently. This includes Snyk Studio for real-time guidance in AI coding workflows and Snyk Secrets for blocking leaked credentials.
- Evo Agentic Development Security (ADS): Protect the AI workforce. Governs what AI coding agents use, what they do, and what they generate, from the MCP servers and skills they pull into the code they write.
Evo Agentic Development Security (ADS): Protect the AI workforce. Governs what AI coding agents use, what they do, and what they generate, from the MCP servers and skills they pull into the code they write.
- Evo AI-SPM: Govern every AI app you build. Discovers the models, agents, and MCP servers in your software, generates a live AI-BOM, and turns AI policy into enforceable controls.
Evo AI-SPM: Govern every AI app you build. Discovers the models, agents, and MCP servers in your software, generates a live AI-BOM, and turns AI policy into enforceable controls.
- Evo Continuous Offensive Security (COS): Validate every loop. Continuously tests applications and AI agents, including through Agent Red Teaming, and returns validated proof of what an attacker could actually exploit, so no loop grades its own work.
Evo Continuous Offensive Security (COS): Validate every loop. Continuously tests applications and AI agents, including through Agent Red Teaming, and returns validated proof of what an attacker could actually exploit, so no loop grades its own work.
“Agents now choose the dependencies, call the tools, and write the code. We believe security belongs inside that loop, not downstream of it,” said Manoj Nair, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Snyk. “That’s the thinking behind Evo by Snyk and the Snyk AI Security Platform, and it’s where we’ll keep investing.”
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About Snyk
Snyk, the AI security company, empowers the AI-driven enterprise to develop and secure its future, ensuring organizations can trust AI to innovate without limits. The Snyk AI Security Platform secures software at build speed, weaving protection directly into the creation flow to secure GenAI code, AI-native applications, and agentic systems. By delivering visibility, control, and autonomous defense securely at inception, Snyk enables over 4,800 global customers to build fearlessly in the AI era.
¹ The Forrester Wave™: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026
