Osavul Named a Front-Runner in Gartner’s Disinformation Security Report
The company’s AI-driven situational awareness platform has earned “Set Diamond” status — the highest tier — in Gartner’s inaugural Startups to Watch in Disinformation Security research.
Osavul’s AI-driven situational awareness platform achieved the highest “Set Diamond” status in Gartner’s inaugural research “Startups to Watch in Disinformation Security.”
Osavul, the AI-based preemptive threat intelligence company, has been classified a Set Diamond (Front Runner), the highest category, in Gartner’s 2026 Report Emerging Tech: Startups to Watch in Disinformation Security. This recognition positions Osavul amongst a few companies that are constructing trust infrastructure at the enterprise and government levels.
The 2026 Gartner Report analyzed 52 disinformation security startups that were granted venture capital funding from January 2024 to January 2026. The Report assesses companies in four tiers utilizing a diamond motif: Rough (Seedlings), Cut (Emergents), Polished (Scale-Ups), and Set (Front Runners). Osavul’s standing in the top tier is indicative of its market traction, solution maturation, and widening relevance across foundational spheres.
Gartner’s Report on Osavul
Gartner’s analysis demonstrates Osavul’s ability to comprehend and filter over 500 million disparate signals each month across the cognitive, cyber, and physical security domains. This multi-domain data collection and subsequent AI-driven analysis of the platform empower organizations to transcend from mere passive surveillance systems to authentic strategic anticipation systems.
The report states that Osavul “provides actionable strategic intelligence through the platform to perform autonomous analysis, create real-time situational awareness, and forewarn emerging threats using agentic AI simulations for governments, security entities, and businesses.”
A Platform Designed for the Convergence Era
Gartner’s wider report highlights a fundamental change regarding the threat landscape. There is a growing absence of the border that separates cybersecurity threats and brand protection threats. The threat of disinformation campaigns is no longer reputational. There is a growing concern of attacks directed towards the infrastructure, personnel, and facilities of a business. Osavul was designed for this convergence.
The AI agents of the platform analyse and map digital narratives pertaining to brand-related critical assets, individuals, and infrastructure, and geographically located critical assets. This allows governments and businesses to act before damage is done. Gartner advises critical infrastructure sectors of government, public sector, manufacturing, and transportation to “seek strategic intelligence providers to understand the intersection of digital narratives and physical security threats.” Osavul is the provider to this market.
Recognition Based on Real World Use
Gartner's report says that testing in the geopolitical arena has been important in the development of disinformation security solutions. The report cites Osavul as having “accelerated product maturity through direct application in high-stakes cognitive warfare environments, translating national security defence into enterprise-grade solutions.”
This earned operational credibility sets Osavul apart from vendors that offer more theoretical capabilities. The platform has experience in some of the most challenging information environments in the world, which is reflected in every layer of the product.
For CIOs
Addressing disinformation as a communications problem is an error. It is a problem at the level of technology infrastructure. CIOs need to determine whether their technology stacks enable predictive narrative sensing and autonomous verification as a first-order task at scale. With 32% of CIOs considering brand safety a primary risk concern regarding generative AI, the risk of hallucinations and data poisoning is now a board-level concern. With over 500 million processed signals, Osavul has set the standard for enterprise-level cognitive, cyber and physical convergence, and having been named a Front Runner, Osavul is a Low-Risk Procurement opportunity for CIOs before these tools become standard.
For CISOs
The report's most significant request for CISOs is that disinformation be classified as a security problem. Coordinated narrative attacks belong in a SOC, and Osavul’s DISARM-aligned intelligence outputs are designed for direct integration into current threat intelligence workflows. For the first time, CISOs can anticipate convergence threats in the cyber-physical domain with Osavul’s unique triadic coverage. Given the use of semantic evasion and agentic AI as a competitive differentiator, Osavul's infrastructure — designed for autonomous, real-time threat mapping — will permit CISOs to transition from a pilot to operational status without the need to disrupt existing workflows.
Why Gartner Positioned Osavul as a Frontrunner
Osavul stands apart from Gartner's other competitors because it successfully integrates hundreds of millions worth of signals across three domains - cognitive, cyber, and physical. Osavul is also the only tested vendor in real war scenarios and has the ability to process and provide information such that it is aligned with DISARM and enriched with metadata, and integrates easily with the SOC. Osavul's agentic AI architecture is able to identify threats and provide signals in anticipation of detection by other systems. In addition to other platforms, Osavul has successfully merged the analytical capabilities of a national security level platform with commercially available positive security analytics to offer private, public, security and governmental sectors a scalable solution.
