AI-Driven Trends in Endpoint Security: Insights from the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

In today’s digital landscape, cyber threats such as ransomware are escalating in both volume and sophistication, with endpoints often being prime targets. The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into cybersecurity has become essential to not only keep pace with but also anticipate and counteract these evolving threats.

SentinelOne has emerged as a leader in this domain, offering AI-powered cybersecurity solutions that provide real-time, autonomous protection across entire enterprises. Their Singularity Platform consolidates endpoint detection and response (EDR), cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP), hyperautomation, and security information and event management (SIEM) into a single agent and console. This unified approach ensures comprehensive security while maintaining user control.

Modern cybersecurity transcends mere threat detection; it encompasses maintaining operational continuity under duress. Effective endpoint solutions must be capable of inspecting encrypted traffic, enforcing policies during identity compromises, and swiftly containing threats across distributed environments. These capabilities are particularly vital in sectors like healthcare and finance, where delays can lead to regulatory penalties or compromised sensitive data.

In recognition of its innovative approach, Gartner has named SentinelOne a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the fifth consecutive year. This accolade underscores the platform’s pioneering features, including the integration of an AI analyst and its status as the first unified platform delivering EDR, CNAPP, hyperautomation, and SIEM to achieve FedRAMP High authorization—the highest level of U.S. federal cloud security certification.

SentinelOne’s solutions cater to organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to global enterprises and government agencies, addressing the unique challenges posed by an increasingly complex cyber threat landscape. The Singularity Platform offers protection across any device, operating system, and cloud environment, delivering an industry-leading signal-to-noise ratio that enables security operations center (SOC) teams to respond more efficiently. With advanced XDR, AI SIEM, and CNAPP capabilities, along with a lightweight agent and responsible architecture, SentinelOne provides a solution designed for both security and operational resilience.

Organizations utilizing Singularity Endpoint and Purple AI have reported significant improvements: a 63% faster threat detection rate, a 55% reduction in mean time to respond (MTTR), and a 60% decrease in the likelihood of security incidents. Customers have also noted a 338% return on investment over three years, maximizing the value of their security expenditures while enhancing endpoint security.

For instance, a healthcare provider leveraging SentinelOne’s solutions was able to reduce incident response time by over 50% during a phishing-induced ransomware attack, thanks to automated rollback features and unified visibility across cloud workloads and endpoints.

Security teams evaluating EDR or XDR platforms often seek answers to questions like, Will this reduce alert fatigue? or Can it integrate with my SIEM or SOAR stack without adding complexity? SentinelOne addresses these concerns by offering automation that goes beyond mere buzzwords—reducing manual triage, correlating disparate signals, and integrating seamlessly with existing tools rather than replacing them.

Since its market entry over a decade ago, SentinelOne has set the standard in modern endpoint protection, disrupting traditional antivirus and early next-generation AV approaches. Unlike signature-based and cloud-dependent defenses, the platform pioneered the use of static and behavioral AI and machine learning to detect even novel attack techniques, operate effectively in both online and air-gapped environments, and automate responses. These innovations distinguish SentinelOne from traditional AV and even next-gen EDR solutions, offering deeper automation and on-device intelligence compared to competitors that rely heavily on cloud lookups or manual workflows.

This commitment to innovation is evident in features like Purple AI, advanced behavioral detection models, automated remediation and rollback, XDR capabilities, and more. The security platform now offers solutions spanning identity protection, cloud security, AI SIEM, hyperautomation, expert-managed detection and response, and a range of threat services.

Accelerating SOC operations and staying ahead of attacks in the age of AI requires platforms that harness innovation in AI and automation to radically improve detection, triage, and response. SentinelOne’s platform has long embedded AI and automation as foundational elements, continuing to develop accessible, compliant AI and automation to transform SOC operations.

Behavioral AI and the Future of Cyber Threat Detection

Over the past decade, SentinelOne has advanced behavioral AI detections, automated remediation, and introduced agentic AI for security.

Agentic AI—defined as autonomous AI systems capable of initiating and executing security actions without human prompting—autonomously takes action, handles routine tasks, and accelerates decision-making while keeping human operators in control.

Purple AI, the platform’s AI security analyst, translates natural language questions into powerful threat-hunting queries, suggests follow-up questions, recommends next steps, and generates reports and email summaries to accelerate remediation. Built on the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), a vendor-agnostic standard for unifying data models, Purple AI ensures unified visibility across all security data, enabling fast, precise threat detection.

This capability is integrated into Singularity Complete, SentinelOne’s EDR solution, positioning Purple AI as a transformative force in SOC operations. By combining human insight with AI-level reasoning and automation, it enables faster, more accurate triage, investigation, threat management, and response.

Evolution of Endpoint Security in the AI Era

Product innovation remains central to SentinelOne’s strategy, driven by customer feedback, cost and time savings, and deep integration of AI and automation.

Key features include:

– Real-time detection of suspicious and malicious patterns using behavioral and static AI models across servers, workstations, and workloads.

– Correlation of telemetry data from endpoints, cloud workloads, and identity sources into detailed, visual Storylines.

– One-click rollback to a pre-attack state, drastically reducing remediation time.

– Custom workflows and incident response via Singularity Hyperautomation’s no-code, drag-and-drop canvas.

SentinelOne also plays a central role in Zero Trust architectures, supporting identity-based segmentation and continuous trust evaluation across cloud, hybrid, and air-gapped environments. By aligning with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, OCSF, and NIST 800-207, the platform enables cohesive telemetry correlation and policy enforcement—positioning it as more than just endpoint protection, but a pillar in enterprise-wide cyber resilience.

Balancing Control and Stability in Modern Cybersecurity Platforms

The Singularity Platform delivers simplicity, stability, and ease of use across various deployment environments—on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, or fully cloud-based. SentinelOne offers comprehensive OS support, including legacy systems such as Windows XP, 2008, and 2012, and spans more than 20 years of Windows Server coverage.

Customer control is a cornerstone of the platform’s philosophy. The multi-tenant management console emphasizes analyst experience, with streamlined deployment, configuration, and management. Updates are rigorously tested, responsibly deployed, and controlled by the customer to ensure stability and autonomy.

As recognized by Gartner in this year’s evaluation, the unified agent and intuitive console deliver deep enterprise visibility while reducing overhead and administrative burden, allowing security teams to focus on high-priority tasks.

Earning Industry Trust Through Proven Performance

SentinelOne continues to lead in endpoint cybersecurity, earning trust from nearly 15,000 customers—including Fortune 10, Fortune 500, Global 2000 companies, and major government agencies. The company consistently achieves top results in MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations, delivering an industry-leading signal-to-noise ratio.

In addition to being named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform has been recognized as a 2025 Customers’ Choice in the Voice of the Customer for Extended Detection and Response (XDR), a 2024 Customers’ Choice for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), and a 2024 Customers’ Choice for Managed Detection and Response (MDR). SentinelOne was also named a Strong Performer in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Cloud Security Posture Management tools (CSPM).

To see how SentinelOne can transform endpoint security within an organization, stakeholders can request a tailored demo or download the full Gartner report for detailed evaluation insights.