Gartner® Report - The Future of Exposure Management Is Preemptive

Why autonomous interdiction and AI-driven remediation will redefine how organizations stop cyber threats before they start.

Attackers now exploit vulnerabilities in seconds. Traditional exposure management that only identifies and prioritizes risk is no longer enough.
The next generation of cybersecurity will focus on preemptive exposure management using AI, automation, and intelligent simulation to identify, validate, and neutralize threats before they can be exploited.
Download this Gartner® report to learn how organizations are evolving toward autonomous security operations that stop attacks before they start.

Learnings from this Gartner® report:

• Why exposure management must shift from visibility to interdiction
• How AI-driven remediation and autonomous agents will transform security operations
• Why Mean Time to Neutralize (MTTN) will replace time-to-patch as the key metric
• The roadmap toward self-healing security systems

Gartner, Emerging Tech: The Future of Exposure Management Will Be Preemptive — Driven by Autonomous Interdiction, By Elizabeth Kim, Luis Castillo et al., 13 February 2026.
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