Exposure Assessment Platforms Signal a Shift in Focus

"Security tools have always promised risk reduction, but they've mostly delivered noise. One product would reveal a misconfiguration. Another would log a privilege drift. A third would flag vulnerable external-facing assets. The result is a crisis of volume that has led to chronic alert fatigue in the SOC. Each tool provided a piece of the puzzle, yet none were able to put all the pieces together and explain how exposure forms...or what to fix first to avoid it."

"In the inaugural Magic Quadrant report of this category, Gartner evaluated 20 vendors for their ability to support continuous discovery, risk-informed prioritization, and integrated visibility across cloud, on-prem, and identity layers. In this article, we'll take a deep dive into the key findings of the report, the drivers behind the new category, the features that define it, and what we see as the takeaways for security teams."

Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAPs) replace traditional Vulnerability Management as the practical approach to securing modern enterprises. The shift emphasizes Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) over managing endless CVE streams. EAPs enable continuous discovery, risk‑informed prioritization, and integrated visibility across cloud, on‑premises, and identity layers. Legacy security tools produce fragmented findings and alert fatigue by delivering high volumes of noisy, disconnected signals. Data from over 15,000 environments shows that 74% of identified exposures are "dead ends", existing on assets without viable remediation paths. Gartner evaluated 20 vendors against these capabilities in an inaugural Magic Quadrant for EAPs.

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