Pentera Recognized in 2025 Gartner Market Guide for AEV

Pentera’s platform enables security professionals to safely emulate adversarial attacks to identify and remediate exploitable security gaps across the enterprise attack surface

Boston, MA, March 19, 2025 – Pentera, the market leader in automated security validation, has been named as a Representative Vendor in the Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation, 2025. Pentera sees this as recognition of the pivotal role the company plays in the adversarial exposure validation domain, which is a critical component of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) programs.

As cyberattacks grow more sophisticated, organizations increasingly recognize the need for proactive testing against adversarial techniques to maintain a strong cyber posture. Enterprises are prioritizing continuous validation with the attacker’s perspective to assess the effectiveness of their security stack and measure their overall resilience.

According to Gartner, “The continuous nature of a CTEM program necessitates frequent and consistent testing. The capability to repeat testing, in a scheduled fashion — running orchestrated testing playbooks and reporting findings regularly — aids early identification of misconfiguration, new shadow IT and even updated threat techniques.”

“The only way to truly understand your security posture is to test it against the real techniques the attacker will use,” said Aviv Cohen, CMO of Pentera. “To cut through the vulnerability data overload and reduce exposure effectively, Adversarial Exposure Validation technology has become essential and Pentera is proud to be the leader in this market.”

Gartner, Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation, By Eric Ahlm, Dhivya Poole, Angela Zhao, Mitchell Schneider, 11 March 2025

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