Latest Gartner® Research Report: 

Modernize Exposure Management to Counter AI-Augmented Vulnerability Discovery

AI is helping attackers find exploitable flaws and map attack paths faster, while the average time to remediate still sits around 50 days.

Gartner® found that  only 48% of organizations prioritize exposures based on the likelihood of active exploitation and impact to business-critical assets, while 52% continue to rely primarily on
technical severity metrics such as CVSS. This indicates many organizations still prioritize findings rather than attacker-relevant risk.

This Gartner® report gives security leaders six practical actions to move from severity-driven vulnerability remediation to threat and business-informed exposure management.

What's inside this Gartner® Report:

• How to baseline how long exploitable exposures stay open
• How to correlate scanner, cloud and identity signals into real attack paths
• A decision framework for when to remediate, mitigate, validate or accept risk
• How to use continuous validation to confirm what is truly exploitable
• How to build remediation into ITSM, CI/CD and cloud workflows
• Outcome-based KPIs that show leadership risk is going down

Gartner, Modernize Exposure Management to Counter AI-Augmented Vulnerability Discovery, By Mitchell Schneider, Jonathan Nunez, 24 September 2026.
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