Mimecast named an Example Vendor in the Gartner® Market Overview for Data Loss Prevention

About the research

Gartner published the Market Overview for Data Loss Prevention on 21 September 2026. The full research includes the Market Outlook, Current Market Landscape and Market Definition sections.

Your people. Their AI agents. One risk view.

AI agents now open, summarize and send the same files your people do. Every one of them was deployed by someone. We believe data protection has to cover both, in one view.

Content rules alone miss the difference between routine and risky. A rule sees a file. It cannot tell a planned handoff from a departing employee’s last download, or a sanctioned agent from one nobody approved.

The same AI agent in two people’s hands is not the same risk. Who deployed it, and what that person is doing, decides the right response.

Mimecast Apex Data Protection asks one question of every actor, human or agent: should this actor be moving this data right now?

Discover. Govern. Detect. Resolve. 

For people, Mimecast Apex Data Protection detects data exposure and exfiltration across endpoints, browsers, cloud apps and email, with no policy setup required. The solution automatically prioritizes exfiltration events, no content tagging or scanning required, so your team works the highest risks first.

For AI agents, Agent Risk Center discovers the AI tools, agents and MCP connections in your environment. It ties each agent to the person who deployed it. The AI Rulebook provides real-time classification of sanctioned vs. unsanctioned and a suite of adaptive controls. 

Response fits the risk, from coaching an employee in the moment to blocking the transfer. When an agent is involved, the person behind it shapes the risk, and gives you the needed context to respond based on the human-agent risk. 

Get the research. Then see where your data is going.