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DSPM in 2026: Why It Matters More Than Ever

From Innovation/Platform Play positioning to the real-world challenges shaping data security in the agentic era.

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Daphne Dwiputriane

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In 2026, the convergence of cloud expansion, SaaS proliferation, and agentic AI adoption has fundamentally changed the data security challenge, making Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) an increasingly baseline requirement for modern enterprise security. The solution was once an emerging category, but it is now a developing market where the question for security leaders is no longer whether to invest, but whether their current strategy can keep pace with how sensitive data is now created, moved, stored, and exposed.

The 2026 GigaOm DSPM Radar evaluated 25 vendors across technical capabilities, emerging features, and business criteria, and found a market in accelerating motion. The market is actively expanding their offerings and responding to the forces reshaping the category: the expanding shadow data problem, the new data security challenges introduced by AI, and the severe consequences of siloed tools. Understanding these trends is where a modern DSPM strategy must start.

What GigaOM’s 2026 DSPM Radar Evaluation Tells Us

1. The Expanding Shadow Data Problem

Data is now spread out across more locations than ever. The accessibility and low entry barrier to utilize cloud storage has made it easier for teams to create repositories on-demand, often for the purpose of a specific project. Once the project concludes, the repositories often get abandoned or forgotten and remain outside the reach of any formal governance process. Security and IT teams have no window into what those repositories hold, who has access, and whether anyone is even aware they exist.

For security leaders, this creates a foundational problem. Protecting the organization’s data estate requires knowing what the estate contains because an incomplete view of the data estate made them structurally vulnerable.

2. AI Adoption Is Introducing a New Class of Data Security Risk

The scale of AI adoption across organizations globally makes its impact on data security impossible to ignore. The rapid adoption of tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude have already changed how business operations operate daily. The challenge even extends well beyond consumer-facing AI tools where organizations are now building in-house large and small language models and are actively deploying AI agents to automate workflows.

This has placed significant new pressure on data security programs. Data flowing into AI systems without proper classification or access permissions creates real risk of data leakage and regulatory exposure. Additionally, for organizations who are training models on internal data, poorly governed datasets also open the door to model poisoning.

3. The Data Landscape Has Outgrown Point-Solution Tools

Sensitive data now spans on-premises infrastructure, multiple cloud repositories, data platforms, and now AI pipelines. The complexity of this environment, combined with the volume and velocity which data moves across it, makes maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date view genuinely difficult. The instinctive response has been to deploy separate solutions for each environment or use case. However, this approach compounds the problem rather than solving it because siloed tools create fragmented visibility, leaving major security gaps.

The consequences of that fragmentation are measurable. Based on IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, data breaches involving multiple environments costs an average $5.05 million. This shows that a disconnected view does not just create operational fiction but introduces an expensive liability.

How Securiti AI is positioned in the 2026 GigaOm DSPM Radar

GigaOm's Radar places vendors across two axes: Maturity vs. Innovation, and Feature Play vs. Platform Play.

How Securiti AI is positioned in the 2026 GigaOm DSPM Radar

Securiti AI was placed in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, described by GigaOm as ideal for larger and more complex environments. For enterprise security buyers, this placement matters for two reasons.

On the Innovation end, this suggests Securiti AI is purpose-built for AI-era data risks rather than retrofitted from legacy architectures. On the Platform Play end, the breadth of coverage spans governance, privacy, compliance, and AI security rather than solving a single problem in isolation.

In its evaluation, GigaOm has recognized our comprehensive data lineage capability, ability to leverage the Data Command Graph to investigate and assess the extent of a breach, as well as our broad coverage for on-premises repositories.

"Veeam’s Securiti AI delivers the industry's most advanced DSPM capabilities with its Data Command Graph, a contextual engine that continuously maps relationships across all your data, identities, policies, and AI systems."

— Rehan Jalil, President, Products & Technology, Veeam

How Securiti Helps Security Teams to Stay Ahead

Beyond the evaluation criteria, our platform addresses a broader set of challenges that define modern data security.

Shadow Data: From Blind Spot to Governed Asset

Securiti addresses the shadow data challenge at its root by connecting to the broadest range of data repositories across cloud, on-premises, SaaS, data platforms, and AI systems, ensuring sensitive data in different environments can be identified and classified accordingly. Securiti also employs AI Tuning capability that can automatically improve classification results without rescanning data.

What sets Securiti further apart is the ability to leverage relevant metadata to visualize risk relationships across the entire estate, allowing the identification of toxic combinations of risk that may appear harmless in isolation but together, represent a significant risk.

AI Security: Governing the Data That Powers Your AI

The same discovery capability that discovers data assets also extends natively to AI assets by automatically discovering and cataloging AI assets while mapping their associated data, giving security teams a complete picture of what AI systems are running in their environment and what data they can reach.

Regardless if an organization is using enterprise SaaS agents or custom-built agents, Security can help to ensure proper data hygiene and prevent unauthorized access so only safe data is ingested. Additionally, Securiti and Veeam can also help to restore files with precision through the newly released Undo AI.

Breaking Down Silos: One Platform with DataAI Command Center

Securiti resolves the siloed tools problem at the platform level. The DataAI Command Center  consolidates understanding of all data and AI assets into the Data Command Graph, a knowledge graph that serves as a single source of truth to maintain complete context across all data and AI assets in an organization.

The operational impact follows naturally since it provides a common platform for teams to operate and collaborate because every team is now working from the same source of truth. As a result, there is less duplicated effort, stronger cross-team collaboration, and a significantly lower total cost of ownership.

Building a DSPM Strategy Fit for 2026 and Beyond

The trends driving DSPM in 2026 such as shadow data, AI adoption, and siloed tools are present realities that are already reshaping how the most advanced security teams think and act.

Securiti's recognition as the #1 platform on the GigaOm DSPM Radar for the third consecutive year reflects exactly that architectural ambition that not only solve today's challenges but to stay ahead of what comes next: a single platform that connects to a broad range of data and AI systems, addresses use cases across data and AI security, and leverages a relationship graph to maintain a single source of intelligence across every data and AI assets.

As part of Veeam, Securiti AI is building toward something broader: the Data and AI Trust infrastructure enterprises need for the agentic era.

Download the full 2026 GigaOm DSPM Radar Report to see how 25 vendors were evaluated and why Securiti has been named a Leader for the third consecutive year.

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