Ridge Security Named a Sample Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Hype Cycle for Security Operations
Ridge Security Recognized in the Adversarial Exposure Validation Category as Organizations Shift to Continuous, Agentic AI-Driven Offensive Security.
Ridge Security today announced its recognition as a Sample Vendor in the Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) category of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2026, marking the fourth consecutive year the company has been featured in this research. The acknowledgment positions Ridge Security among a select group of vendors redefining how organizations validate and strengthen their security posture in an era of accelerating threats.
As Gartner notes, the security industry is undergoing a fundamental structural shift – away from reactive, point-in-time assessments and toward continuous, threat-led validation. AEV sits at the center of this transformation, providing organizations with consistent, empirical evidence of exploitability across their environments. Ridge Security was built for precisely this moment.
Ridge Security's agentic AI-driven offensive security solutions operate with an attacker's logic – continuously testing environments and validating controls to expose the gaps that periodic assessments miss. This delivers scalable offensive testing and complete visibility across the entire attack surface.
