Solutions Review Releases The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity Report, Reintroducing Its Vendor Map Series

Now available, The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity Report positions AI as the foundation of the modern security stack and maps the leading and emerging vendors defining it.

Solutions Review has announced the official release of its inaugural The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity Report, a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence is reshaping security operations, team design, and vendor strategy across the enterprise market. The report is available today. 

The report’s central argument is direct: AI has moved from a feature within the security stack to the foundation beneath it, and tempo has become the variable that separates organizations that contain risk from those that absorb it. As detection, response, and identity controls are automated, the speed and reliability of the security stack itself become the points at which outcomes are decided. 

Among the report’s findings is what Solutions Review describes as the recognition–action gap. Most organizations now agree that AI is essential to their security posture, yet few have meaningful governance in place to support it. The publication’s research finds that much of today’s enterprise risk lies in the gap between adoption and accountability. 

The report examines that thesis across the domains shaping the market today: 

• The recognition–action gap between widespread AI adoption and the governance maturity needed to support it. 
• The practitioner shift: as AI absorbs the procedural layers of security work, human judgment becomes the scarce, high-value input that reshapes hiring, training, and team design. 
• Identity as the new center of gravity, with non-human and agentic identities proliferating quickly, and attribution, alongside detection, emerging as a hard problem. 
• Visibility as the perimeter, with the asset surface expanding faster than discovery has historically kept pace. 
• Resilience as a first-order design concern, where the recoverability of an automated security stack carries as much weight as prevention. 
• Governance as an accountability and leadership challenge that runs through every domain in the report. 

With this release, Solutions Review reintroduces its vendor map graphical representations, providing security buyers with an at-a-glance reference to leading and emerging players across the cybersecurity marketplace. The maps focus specifically on AI-native cybersecurity vendors across four categories that define how the market is organizing today: Endpoint Security, Cloud and Network Security, Data and Application Security, and Identity Security. Within each, the maps help technology leaders orient themselves quickly, benchmark the providers competing for their attention, and understand how the field is consolidating around AI-native capabilities. 

The report also features commentary from thought leaders across the cybersecurity marketplace, pairing Solutions Review’s analysis with practitioner and executive perspectives on where the discipline is heading and what buyers should prioritize now. 

The emphasis on independent, third-party analysis is deliberate. As buyers increasingly start their research inside AI answer engines rather than a list of blue links, the authority of the source doing the evaluating has become a primary driver of visibility. When a credible media outlet assesses a market, that judgment now propagates through both traditional search rankings and the generative engines layered on top of them, shaping the vendors buyers see, and the answers machines return when asked who leads a category. Presence in trusted third-party research has become a direct input to discoverability rather than a downstream benefit. 

Solutions Review has measured this dynamic firsthand. In January 2026, the publication recorded a 324 percent increase in media domain citations across AI answer engines in under 30 days. The shift was independently validated by Brandi AI in its AI Visibility Index for the CRM Market Universe, which analyzed more than 17,000 AI-generated responses across platforms, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Grok, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. Within that dataset, Solutions Review emerged as the fastest-growing cited media domain, driven by a single CRM “Best of” list published on January 5 and first cited by AI systems just ten days later.

Within a week of that initial citation, the asset had scaled across multiple engines and prompts, surpassing every other media outlet in citation growth. The Solutions Review YouTube page has even surpassed 300,000 subscribers, marking the payoff of an ongoing strategy centered on human-led insight and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale. 

That pattern is the clearest signal yet of how the internet is being rebuilt around machine-readable authority, and it is the reason the vendor maps in The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity Report carry weight well beyond the page. Vendors named in the research stand to benefit from the same citation dynamics now reshaping how security buyers discover and short list providers.

Download The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity report now.

About Solutions Review 

Solutions Review is a B2B technology media publication that helps enterprise buyers evaluate and select software across categories such as cybersecurity, data and analytics, ERP, HR technology, and marketing technology. Through editorial analysis, buyer’s guides, vendor research, and its network of podcasts and contributor programs, Solutions Review connects technology leaders with the intelligence they need to make confident purchasing decisions.