2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations

What is the 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle for Security Operations?

As new technologies continue to emerge, organizations face increasing challenges in making risk-based decisions about which security operations technologies align with their business objectives and needs.

Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphical representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, illustrating their potential relevance in solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities.

Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2024

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According to Gartner, Threat exposure management encompasses a set of processes and technologies that allow enterprises to continually and consistently assess the visibility and validate the accessibility and exploitability of an enterprise’s digital assets. It must be governed by an effective continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) program."

In this report, Gartner shares:

A programmatic and repeatable approach to answer the question "How exposed are we?" is necessary for organizations.
Threat exposure management is a specialism that governs and prioritizes risk reduction for the modern enterprise and requires assessments of all systems, applications and subscriptions used for business activities, broadening risk understanding for today’s digital landscape. CTEM programs factor in business importance, likelihood of attack, visibility of vulnerability and validation of the existence of an attack path, to enable businesses to mobilize responses to the most relevant risks.
Cyber risk analysts need to speed up cyber risk assessments, and be more agile and adaptable through increased automation and prepopulation of risk data in context.

In addition, Gartner mentions that "Security and risk management leaders require an architecture that not only reacts to the current security issues (those that are visible in the organization), but provides a coordinated and holistic approach to complex
security problems.” Gartner also shares, ‘’Adversarial exposure validation technologies offer offensive security technologies
simulating threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures to validate the existence of exploitable exposures and test security control effectiveness. Within this profile, Gartner has consolidated breach attack simulation and autonomous penetration testing and red teaming.’’ 

Gartner, Hype Cycle for Security Operations 2024, 29 July 2024, Jonathan Nunez, Andrew Davies

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