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Defensive AI: a dated supply-side landscape

Compare named offers without collapsing different controlled objects, authority boundaries, commercial routes and evidence maturity into one false category.

Publication record

Published / edition
2026-09-05
Evidence cutoff
14 August 2026
Coverage
A declared basket of 27 current products or offers across 25 named product organisations and 25 consolidated corporate owners.
Intended reader
Security buyers, risk, audit, counsel and procurement teams, Security vendor and product-strategy teams, MSSP, MDR and integration teams, Investors and corporate-development teams
Update status
Dated baseline with report-specific recheck rules for product, route, dependency, pricing and legal records.

Decision question

What does the defensive-AI supply side contain at the cutoff, where do offers cease to be comparable, and which uncertainties should block or reopen a strategic question?

Scope

Defensive AI: a dated supply-side landscape maps named offers through function, controlled object, authority, status, outcome evidence, purchase unit, commercial route, dependency and the operational owner to verify. It is a bounded standalone landscape, not a market census, ranking, shortlist or supplier recommendation.

What is included

  • Nine-field product matrix: function, controlled object, authority, status, outcome evidence, purchase unit, commercial route, dependency and operational owner to verify.
  • Four visible commercial routes: standalone overlay, incumbent module, managed or MSSP/MDR, and cloud or runtime consumption.
  • Dependency and event map: named control points, financing and ownership events with historical and post-cutoff states kept distinct.
  • Evidence ceilings: source interest, freshness, comparison limits and unresolved questions remain explicit.

Intended uses

Buyer-side teams testing named offers against a requirement established in their own environment.

Vendor and product-strategy teams separating competitors and adjacencies by object, authority and delivery route.

MSSP, MDR and integration teams distinguishing software capability from service, credential, dependency and accountability boundaries.

Investors and corporate-development teams examining control points, distribution, dependencies and outcome evidence without treating financing as efficacy proof.

Access and licensing

Standalone licence

Separate internal-use licence for Defensive AI: a dated supply-side landscape. Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability is not required to purchase or use it.

4,000 EUR

Follow-on licence for method holders

A separately purchased licence for Defensive AI: a dated supply-side landscape at the held follow-on price for holders of Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability. This is not a two-report bundle.

3,000 EUR

  • Price held for 12 months after the purchase of Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability

Commercial-use licence

Series-level licence for advisers, MSSPs and other intermediaries. It includes both reports and updates for use in paid client deliverables.

From 15,000 EUR / year

Procurement facts

  • Defensive AI: a dated supply-side landscape is available independently for EUR 4,000; purchasing Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability is not a prerequisite.
  • The EUR 3,000 follow-on price is held for 12 months after the purchase of Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability.
  • Delivery does not require access to the buyer's systems or data.
  • Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability and Defensive AI: a dated supply-side landscape are standalone products; there is no two-report bundle.
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