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Theom’s Innovative Strategy Balancing Security and AI Receives Independent Recognition
Theom Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions
AI security and governance are impossible without deep data and identity context. In an evaluation of 10 of the market’s most significant platforms, Theom was one of only three solutions to be named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions, Q2 2026. To us, this independent recognition confirms our data security platform as the definitive standard for organizations building secure, scalable AI programs.
Data and Identity Visibility: The Foundation for AI Governance
AI security fundamentally depends on answering the critical question most organizations struggle with: What is the full context of the data? To understand this, you must be able to answer the 5Ws of your data environment:
- Where is your sensitive data located?
- Who has access to it?
- What is its lineage: Where did it originate and where does it flow? What happens when AI interacts with this data, and what is the AI doing with it?
- Why is AI accessing the data, on whose behalf, and for what purposes?
- When was the data accessed, and is it being shared externally?
Legacy database activity monitoring and traditional classification tools fail to answer these questions at the speed or scale required by modern LLMs.
Theom goes beyond basic sensitive data discovery and classification, providing the essential data context layer that serves as the critical foundation for effective AI governance, zero trust, data loss prevention (DLP), and agentic access controls. With Theom, you gain true agentic observability, ensuring you are never enforcing AI security policies on data you lack context for.
Forrester Just Confirmed That Theom is a Leader
Theom was recently evaluated by Forrester, alongside nine other significant platforms in this space. After researching, analyzing, and scoring the most significant platforms in this space, Forrester named Theom a Leader. We see this as recognition that Theom is among the top vendors in the market across the most vital criteria for modern AI governance, AI security, AI observability, and data security programs.
What Forrester’s Evaluation Says About Theom
“[Theom] punches above its weight with an aggressive innovation strategy and a roadmap that balances security, AI, and data stakeholder requirements.”
The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions, Q2 2026
“[Theom] is designed for simplicity, with excellent usability, performance, and scalability. It also excels in its coverage of cloud and on premises data sources, and automated classification and enrichment, using a blend of contextual inputs.”
The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions, Q2 2026
“Customers like Theom’s usability, cost effectiveness, and responsiveness to feature requests.”
The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions, Q2 2026
“[Theom] best suits organizations requiring a unified, real-time view of data to govern data and AI use.”
The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions, Q2 2026
Scorecard
Forrester gave Theom a 5/5 rating, the highest possible score, in 12 distinct evaluation criteria.
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★★★★★
Perfect scores from Forrester
| Current Offering | 8 criteria |
|---|---|
| Configuration and usability | 5/5 |
| Cloud data source coverage | 5/5 |
| On premises data source coverage | 5/5 |
| Automated data classification | 5/5 |
| Performance | 5/5 |
| Scalability | 5/5 |
| Data risk visibility | 5/5 |
| Reporting | 5/5 |
| Strategy | 4 criteria |
|---|---|
| Innovation | 5/5 |
| Roadmap | 5/5 |
| Adoption | 5/5 |
| Pricing flexibility and transparency | 5/5 |
Scores are on a scale of 1 (with a score of 1 defined as below par relative to others evaluated) to 5 (with a score of 5 defined as superior relative to others evaluated). Source: The Forrester Wave™: Sensitive Data Discovery And Classification Solutions, Q2 2026.
The Foundation for the Future of Data
As enterprises rush to deploy generative AI and copilots, the attack surface for sensitive data is expanding exponentially. You can no longer rely on tools that merely scan databases periodically and generate alert fatigue. You need a continuous, identity-aware security fabric that understands data context in real-time.
Securing a Leader position in the Forrester Wave™ is more than an industry acknowledgment; we believe it is a critical de-risking metric for security leaders. Theom delivers the absolute stability, scale, and continuous visibility the modern enterprise expects, empowering you to safely accelerate your AI initiatives without compromising on data privacy.
Don’t build your AI governance program on incomplete data context.
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