Reflecting on the 2025 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant^™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms: How Trellix defines the future of endpoint security in a hybrid world

By Sanjay Raja · July 17, 2025

The cybersecurity landscape is more complex and dangerous than ever. As organizations navigate the relentless tide of sophisticated threats, the need for robust, comprehensive endpoint security has never been more critical. In a market teeming with solutions, how do you choose a partner that truly understands the nuances of your infrastructure and the evolving nature of cyber warfare?

The recently released 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) offers a vital lens into this crowded space. What stands out immediately is the extreme selectivity of this report: out of 111 vendors, only 15 met Gartner’s rigorous inclusion criteria—a testament to the high bar set for revenue, customer base, and global reach. Trellix is proud to be among this elite group, a clear validation of our leadership and relevance in this critical security segment.

But our story goes far beyond market inclusion. It’s about a pragmatic, innovative, and customer-centric approach to endpoint security that truly reflects the realities of today’s IT environments.

The hybrid reality: complete coverage for a complex world

Many cybersecurity vendors today have a singular focus: cloud-first. While the cloud plays a crucial role, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the modern enterprise to assume a purely cloud-centric security strategy is sufficient. The truth is, the majority of the world operates in a "hybrid" state—a complex mix of cloud, on-premises, and even air-gapped deployments.

This is where Trellix shines. Trellix is a compelling solution for organizations that are primarily hybrid-cloud that include on-premises and/or air-gapped infrastructure. Unlike cloud-focused SaaS competitors, we offer comprehensive security for mission-critical systems across all infrastructure types. Our complete offering provides granular customization options, ensuring that whether your data resides in the cloud or in a highly secured, air-gapped environment, Trellix has you covered.

While the review of our solutions by Gartner in some instances focused on a narrow view of a single offering, the reality is that the combination of Trellix Endpoint Security solutions delivers the industry’s best blend of threat protection, detection, and prevention. The sum of our parts truly is greater than any of our competitors' or any single solution on its own. We provide complete security coverage across real-world infrastructure, built not just for threat detection, but for robust protection across today’s diverse networks.

Innovation that delivers today, not tomorrow

In a world buzzing with talk of AI, it’s easy to get lost in the hype. While competitors are still planning their GenAI features, Trellix is already delivering production-ready AI investigation capabilities with Trellix Wise. This isn't a future promise; it's a current reality that empowers security teams right now.

Our commitment to innovation extends beyond AI. We’re constantly enhancing our solutions to offer:

• Application Control. Ensuring only authorized changes and applications run on your endpoints, preventing unauthorized control and usage
• Attack Path Discovery. Proactively identifying lateral movement routes before exploitation, a critical capability others are still developing

Trellix has also unified endpoint security features into a single agent to reduce the burden on systems, administration and management. This consolidation, particularly with the addition of forensics to EDR and unified management through ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), is a game-changer. 

It dramatically increases the accuracy of identifying true threats and eradicating deep-rooted remnants of an attack that are often missed by other solutions. This, in turn, enables immediate hardening against future attacks and variants, leading to higher accuracy and deeper analytics.

Who benefits from Trellix's approach?

Our unique capabilities resonate deeply with a diverse set of stakeholders:

• Trellix EPP/EDR Customers. For those already invested in Trellix EPP, EDR, or HX deployments, this is a validation of your strategic choice. It’s also an exciting opportunity to enhance your capabilities by upgrading to the full suite of Trellix Endpoint Security solutions for a unified and simplified user and management experience, especially with the introduction of EDR with Forensics (EDRF) 1.7.
• Enterprises Concerned with Hidden Threats and Repeat Attacks. The alarming statistic that 68% of ransomware victims in 2025 experienced a second attack within six months of the first one underscores a critical vulnerability in many security strategies. Trellix's heritage in threat research and real-time threat intelligence, combined with customized detections and deep forensics, provides assurance against re-emergent attacks. Our ability to accurately unmask deeply rooted threats is paramount to preventing sophisticated attacks and their variants from resurfacing.
• Organizations with Resource/Skills Shortages. The cybersecurity skills gap is a persistent challenge. Trellix EDRF's AI-guided investigation capabilities (through Trellix Wise) are designed to empower junior analysts, enabling them to perform at higher levels through risk-based prioritization and streamlined investigation workflows. The unification of EDR and forensics, coupled with a simplified user experience, bridges the gap with Tier 3 analysts, significantly easing their workload.
• IT/Security Decision Makers in Hybrid Environments. As organizations continue to operate in complex hybrid environments, consistent visibility across all infrastructure is non-negotiable. Trellix Endpoint Security Suite’s ability to monitor both on-premises and cloud environments makes it uniquely relevant to these stakeholders navigating cloud transformation journeys.
• The Top Choice for On-premises and Air-gapped Infrastructure. Government organizations, critical infrastructure, industrial control systems (ICS), manufacturing, and large financial institutions often require comprehensive coverage for on-premises deployments and/or environments separated from the internet and cloud. Trellix stands alone in offering a unified set of security coverage and accuracy tailored to these specialized and highly secure deployments.

Why Trellix Endpoint Security? It's about accuracy, simplification, and real-world relevance.

The 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms provides a strong foundation for Trellix's continued growth after the successful consolidation of McAfee and FireEye. Our inclusion among such a select group of vendors underscores our critical role in this vital security segment.

When discussing the Gartner report, several key themes consistently emerge as to why we believe Trellix is the superior choice:

• Accuracy Powered by Intelligence: Trellix has always been at the forefront of security research and threat intelligence. Fueled by analyzing over 68 billion threat events daily from over 100 million endpoints, and leveraging our advanced AI capabilities and custom detection models honed over 25 years, Trellix focuses on providing unparalleled accuracy in identifying threats.
  
  This enables us to detect threats, eliminate false positives, protect assets, and prevent breaches. Speed is nothing without accuracy! We emphasize the value of accuracy across the board, empowering security engineers and analysts to fully cover their environments with the most comprehensive endpoint security.
• We Continuously Simplify the User Experience: Unlike competitors who often bolt on disparate solutions and cobble together management interfaces, Trellix is hyper-focused on simplifying the deployment and management of endpoint security infrastructure for our clients across complex hybrid, on-premises, and air-gapped environments.
  
  We continue to improve Trellix ePO, long an industry standard for managing endpoint security, to empower even junior analysts to more efficiently identify potential threats, understand the full scope of an attack, build precise responses, and continuously harden systems. Through custom detections, informative investigations, and deep forensics leveraging the latest innovations in AI, we accelerate and improve the efficiency of security teams.
• The Majority of the World Is Hybrid. Many organizations have slowed their full-scale cloud transformations due to out-of-control costs, licensing complexities, or data sharing and mobility concerns. They support and will continue to support a mix of cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments.
  
  While that market as a whole has focused on discussing mainly cloud SaaS-based solutions, the reality is that customers need full coverage across all environments. Even cloud-centric enterprises often remain largely hybrid. Trellix is ideally suited to provide comprehensive coverage across all endpoints, recognizing the true operational landscape.
• Innovation and Customer-Focused Leadership: The dust has settled on the merger between McAfee and FireEye, and in 2025, our products clearly demonstrate the value of a unified Trellix, with significant changes in how we build, package, and sell our solutions.
  
  Our strong leadership team is wholly directed at building the products customers need to truly succeed in securing their organizations and improving their overall security posture. We’ve already deployed production-ready AI capabilities through Trellix Wise for automated investigation, triage assistance, and remediation recommendations, while competitors are still planning or over-marketing their GenAI features.

Summary

In a crowded endpoint security market, Trellix stands out as a highly selective leader, recognized by Gartner, uniquely positioned to secure the complex reality of hybrid cloud environments. Unlike competitors focused solely on cloud-based detection, Trellix offers comprehensive protection for mission-critical systems across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments, prioritizing accuracy fueled by intelligence over mere speed.

Our production-ready AI investigation tools like Trellix Wise and advanced capabilities such as Attack Path Discovery highlight our innovation leadership and set us apart from others still in the planning stages. Trellix also simplifies the user experience through consolidation and deeper analytics, enabling even junior analysts to effectively combat threats. 

This pragmatic approach, combined with our commitment to continuous improvement and customer-focused leadership, makes Trellix the ideal choice for organizations navigating the cybersecurity skills gap, concerned with hidden and repeat attacks, and those operating in diverse, real-world infrastructure. To learn more, explore our Endpoint Security solutions.

¹Gartner, 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), Evgeny Mirolyubov, Franz Hinner, Deepak Mishra, July 14, 2025