2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation 

Read insights from Gartner® on adversarial exposure validation.

Gartner® predicts that “through 2027, 40% of organizations will have adopted formal exposure validation initiatives, most relying on adversarial exposure validation technologies and managed service providers for maturity and consistency.” 

The 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation provides detailed market analysis, key findings and strategic recommendations on how validating threat exposure against attack scenarios and techniques benefits offensive and defensive security teams. 

Cymulate is recognized as a Representative Vendor for adversarial exposure validation. We believe that our comprehensive exposure validation platform supports the core, recommended and optional capabilities that Gartner® advocates in the report. 

The Cymulate Exposure Validation Platform  

Cymulate is a market leader in adversarial exposure validation, enabling security teams to: 

• Maximize threat detection and prevention 
• Optimize cloud security 
• Power and scale offensive testing  
• Accelerate detection engineering  

Gartner, Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation, Eric Ahlm, Dhivya Poole, Angela Zhao, Mitchell Schneider, 11 March 2025

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