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Get expert evaluation of Penetration Testing as a Service, Continuous Threat Exposure Management, and Generative AI in our understanding.

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Filter marketing noise and make more informed decisions 

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Deploy the right technologies—no more falling for false promises

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Build a proactive security posture, by choosing tools that won’t let you down

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Gartner Hype Cycle Graph Application Security

Our takeways

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Stay Ahead of the Curve

The report covers key trends like Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS) and Continuous Threat Exposure Management(CTEM), and their roles in improving threat detection and presenting new security risks. With these insights, you can ensure your approach keeps up with evolving threats.

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Make Informed Choices

Understand the Priority Matrix for 2025 to evaluate and prioritize security investments based on your organization’s risk profile. This section helps you make informed decisions on which technologies and services best align with your current and future needs.

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Master Vibe Coding and AI Security Testing

Gain access to the latest analysis on Vibe Coding and AI Security Testing—two powerful categories on the rise.

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Proactively Manage Risk Exposure

Evaluate technologies that identify, prioritize, and manage vulnerabilities across your digital landscape. The report tells you how to implement Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) programs and why Adversarial Exposure Validation is crucial. 

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Who Should Read This Report?

We believe that this report is a must-have for security leaders, CISOs, SecOps teams, vulnerability management professionals. 
Whether you're aiming to enhance your DevSecOps practices, implement continuous exposure management, or simply stay ahead of attackers, this report is packed with actionable insights.

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Gartner Hype Cycle Report Application Security

What Does the Report Include?

A round-up of tech lifecycle insights and evaluation best practices

This Hype Cycle tracks the maturity and adoption of processes and technologies that can help organizations advance their application security programs.

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Proactive Exposure Management

PTaaS complements exposure assessments and traditional application security testing. It also provides cost optimization and quality improvement of pentesting output along with validation of exposure status.

Automation and AI Assistants

AI assistants are delivering useful results in multiple areas of their code including secure coding and in the infrastructure and operations of the production environment.

Continuous Security Assessment

Penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) provides technology-led, point-in-time and continuous application and infrastructure testing aligned with penetration testing (pentesting) standards, which have traditionally relied heavily on human pentesters using commercial/proprietary tools.

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Beat evolving malicious actor methods by staying informed. With The Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Application Security 2025, get insights to be fully equipped to protect your organization with reliable, future-proofed tools.

 
 
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Gartner, Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2025, By Dioniso Zumerle, 22 July 2025
Gartner, Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2025, By Jonathan Nunez, Darren Livingtone, 23 July 2025
Gartner, Hype Cycle for XaaS, 2025, By Jason Donham, 23 July 2025
 
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