NetSPI’s Take on Exposure Management: Our Highlights from Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024

NetSPI named as a Sample Vendor in Hype Cycle™ report

As organizations adapt to hybrid work, increasing threats and advancements like generative AI take more center stage than ever before. The 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, explains how “Security operations technology and services defend IT/OT systems, cloud workloads, applications and other digital assets from attack by identifying threats, vulnerability and exposures. This Hype Cycle helps security and risk management leaders strategize and deliver SecOps capability and functions.”

Our takeaways from the report include the growing importance of exposure management, with innovations like continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) and adversarial exposure validation tools to help organizations prioritize vulnerabilities and test resilience. In our opinion, by mapping emerging and mature technologies, the Hype Cycle™ helps security leaders align investments with organizational risks, ensuring measurable outcomes. We believe this report includes insights for navigating complex threats, optimizing resources, and staying ahead in a rapidly changing cybersecurity environment.

We feel that both of which NetSPI offers as superior and secure solutions. Adversarial exposure validation simulates real-world attack scenarios to uncover hidden weaknesses and assess system resilience. PTaaS enables continuous, automated security testing to quickly identify vulnerabilities, aligning with the proactive approach of CTEM. Together, they provide a comprehensive view of an organization’s threat landscape, helping prioritize mitigation efforts and enhance adaptability to evolving cybersecurity threats. We believe NetSPI’s offerings in these areas combine proactive security measures and experience-based expertise to enhance vulnerability detection and reduce attack surfaces efficiently and effectively.

Let’s dig a little deeper.

Adversarial Exposure Validation

Adversarial exposure validation uses automated simulations and real attack techniques to discover vulnerabilities and confirm exploitability. Delivered as flexible SaaS solutions, it helps organizations focus on real risks, prioritize resources, and improve security controls. Unlike traditional methods, it provides frequent, reliable assessments to reduce attack surfaces and meet compliance needs.

Though it requires skilled teams, this technology enhances red team efforts, strengthens defenses, and supports proactive threat management. By integrating it into broader security programs, organizations can protect critical assets and stay ahead of evolving threats.

Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)

Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS) simplifies security testing and compliance, like PCI, by offering continuous testing and real-time results. It streamlines workflows, enhances vulnerability detection, and improves reporting for leadership and auditors. By integrating early in development, PTaaS reduces costs, speeds up risk mitigation, and strengthens overall security posture. NetSPI’s solutions bolster your organization’s SaaS security posture in ways you may have previously overlooked, including security assessments for a range of platforms your teams depend on.

This includes only some of our key insights that we learned in the Gartner® Hype Cycle for Security Operations™, 2024. Access the full report to better understand technologies and trends to help enable a CTEM program.  

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