📊 2026 Market Intelligence Report
Endpoint Protection
Software: The 2026
Data Landscape
Comprehensive quantitative intelligence on the global endpoint security market — threat vectors, spending trends, technology adoption, and regional dynamics.
$40.3B
Global Market
Size 2025
Size 2025
$119B
Projected Market
Size by 2035
Size by 2035
12.8%
CAGR
2026–2035
2026–2035
$10.5T
Global Cybercrime
Cost in 2026
Cost in 2026
78%
Orgs Hit by
Ransomware in 2025
Ransomware in 2025
🌐 Market Size & Growth
$21.6B
EPP market valuation in 2026, growing to $49.5B by 2034 at a CAGR of 10.9%
Fortune Business Insights, 2026
$23.3B
Total endpoint security market size in 2026, projected to reach $39.4B by 2031
Mordor Intelligence, 2026
11.04%
CAGR for endpoint security market 2026–2031, driven by BYOD and ransomware-as-a-service growth
Mordor Intelligence, 2026
40.1%
North America's endpoint security market share in 2025 — the undisputed global market leader
DATAMIntelligence, 2026
14.1%
Asia-Pacific CAGR 2026–2035 — the fastest-growing region for endpoint security globally
DATAMIntelligence, 2026
$9.34B
EPP market size projected for 2030, up from $6.31B in 2026 at 10.3% CAGR
Research and Markets, 2026
🔍 EDR, XDR & AI-Powered Security
$5.1B
EDR market size in 2025; 66% of organizations now deploy AI-powered solutions for autonomous threat response
Mordor Intelligence / Vectra AI, 2026
22.3%
CAGR of EDR market 2026–2033, from $2.1B in 2025 to $12.2B by 2033
SNS Insider, 2025
66.5%
Share of cloud-delivered EDR solutions in 2025, expanding at 25.9% CAGR to 2031
Research and Markets, 2025
63%
Faster threat detection achieved by organizations using AI-powered endpoint + purple AI tools
SentinelOne, 2025
207 days
Mean time to detect a breach for organizations WITHOUT AI-enhanced endpoint security
Security Boulevard, 2025
4 hours
Industry-average mean time to detect for top-tier AI-driven endpoint tools in 2025 — the benchmark vendors must meet
CyberDB, 2025
$180M
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded SentinelOne a $180 million contract in January 2026 to deploy Singularity XDR across 500,000 classified network endpoints — the largest government EDR deployment ever recorded.
Source: Mordor Intelligence, January 2026
🦠 Ransomware & Threat Landscape
📱 BYOD, Remote Work & IoT
21.1B
Active IoT devices worldwide by end of 2025, projected to reach 39 billion by 2030
IoT Analytics, State of IoT 2025
+124%
Year-over-year surge in IoT malware attacks in 2024, with 17M+ attacks blocked on IP cameras alone
SonicWall 2025 Cyber Threat Report
$330K
Average cost of an IoT security incident; healthcare IoMT breaches can exceed $10 million
Asimily / Vectra AI, 2025
42%
Workers who log in remotely at least once per week in 2025, dramatically expanding endpoint attack surfaces
Deepstrike, 2025
$285.9B
Projected BYOD security market by 2032, growing at 27.2% CAGR from $53.1B in 2025
Sci-Tech-Today, 2025
+59%
Increase in shadow IT usage driven by remote work, creating critical blind spots in endpoint visibility
Keepnet / Guardz, 2026
💼 Enterprise Spending & Compliance
Zero Trust Market
The zero trust security market is valued at $48.43 billion in 2026 and expected to reach $102.01 billion by 2031, as continuous endpoint verification becomes foundational to enterprise security architecture.
Global Cybersecurity Budget
Gartner projects global cybersecurity spending will reach $240 billion in 2026, up 12.5% from $213 billion in 2025 — the fastest growth rate since 2020, driven by AI threats and new regulatory mandates.
AI Cybersecurity Market
The AI in cybersecurity market reached $25.53 billion in 2026 and is projected to hit $133 billion by 2030, with endpoint protection among the primary beneficiaries of AI-native security investment.
🔑 Key Market Insights & Trends 2026
AI-native detection is the new baseline: Behavioral AI can now identify zero-day exploits in under 100 milliseconds. Signature-based AV has been relegated to a secondary defense layer in enterprise environments.
Ransomware operators deploy "EDR killers": In 2026, adversaries routinely neutralize endpoint defenses before executing ransomware payloads. Self-healing and tamper-resistant endpoint protection has become a must-have procurement requirement.
AI security saves $1.9M per incident: Organizations with extensively deployed AI and automation in security cut breach response time by 80 days and save an average of $1.9 million per incident compared to non-AI peers.
Identity has overtaken malware as the primary attack vector: 79% of attacks are now malware-free, using stolen credentials — demanding identity-aware EDR capabilities alongside conventional endpoint protection.
Regulatory pressure is accelerating adoption: NIS2, GDPR, CMMC 2.0, and CIRCIA are compelling organizations across healthcare, finance, and critical infrastructure to deploy comprehensive endpoint detection and response platforms as a compliance baseline.
IoT is the fastest-growing attack surface: With 21.1 billion connected devices in 2025 and IoT malware attacks surging 124% year-over-year, endpoint protection strategies must now explicitly cover non-traditional connected devices beyond workstations and mobile.
$10.5T
Global cybercrime costs are projected to reach $10.5 trillion in 2026 — exceeding the GDP of every nation except the United States and China. Endpoint protection is the frontline defense in this trillion-dollar battle.
Source: ORDR Cybersecurity Statistics 2026 Report | Security Boulevard, 2025