Gartner recognizes Horizon3.ai as a Sample Vendor in Adversarial Exposure Validation
In the 2025 Hype Cycle for Security Operations, Gartner identifies, ”Adversarial exposure validation (AEV) delivers consistent, continuous and automated evidence of the feasibility of an attack.“ In our opinion, these tools help organizations move beyond theoretical risk scoring to focus on validated exposures that can be exploited in real-world conditions.
Horizon3.ai was named as a Sample Vendor in the Adversarial Exposure Validation category.
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- Why adversarial exposure validation (AEV) delivers “consistent, continuous and automated evidence of the feasibility of an attack.”
- How AEV “confirms how potential attack techniques would successfully exploit an organization and circumvent prevention and detection security controls.”
- The convergence of “automated penetration-testing tools and breach and attack simulation vendors” into the AEV market
- Gartner recommendations on “integrating existing attack simulation and penetration-testing scenarios in an AEV roadmap as part of a shift from vulnerability management to a CTEM program.”
What Gartner Says About Adversarial Exposure Validation
“Adversarial exposure validation (AEV) delivers consistent, continuous and automated evidence of the feasibility of an attack… These technologies confirm how potential attack techniques would successfully exploit an organization and circumvent prevention and detection security controls.”
— Gartner, Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2025
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Why Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai believes NodeZero® Offensive Security Platform is a pioneer technology in the Adversarial Exposure Validation category. NodeZero enables security teams to adopt an attacker’s perspective and continuously validate the true risk in their environment.
Recognized by Gartner in the 2025 Hype Cycle for Security Operations, we believe Horizon3.ai is helping organizations verify exposure, prove exploitability, and focus remediation on what matters most.
Gartner®, Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2025, Jonathan Nunez, Darren Livingstone, 23 June 2025.
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