June 2025, Gartner just published a research note that could […]
Information security, Preemptive Security
My Take: Gartner’s “Emerging Tech – The Future of Exposure Management is Preemptive”
June 2025, Gartner just published a research note that could very well define the next era of cybersecurity: “Emerging Tech: The Future of Exposure Management is Preemptive,” authored by Elizabeth Kim and Apoorva Chhabra.
For those of us who’ve lived through the evolution of security tooling—starting with prioritization lists, graduating to attack path validation, and now stepping into remediation automation—this report feels like a milestone. It doesn’t just describe where we are. It articulates exactly where we need to go.
Reclaim Security is proud to be included among the innovators helping shape this future.
Why This Report Resonates
What stood out in the research is Gartner’s framing of a world where exposure management becomes an active, preemptive process. It’s no longer enough to discover gaps or rank them. The expectation now is to fix—automatically, intelligently, and without business disruption.
The analysts emphasize technologies like AI-powered simulation, agentic remediation, and automation that adapts to both business operations and attacker behavior. These are no longer moonshots—they’re emerging requirements.
This isn’t just validation of a market trend. It’s validation of the Reclaim mission.
Reclaim Security: Already Solving the Problems This Report Identifies
From the beginning, we’ve believed that security prioritization alone isn’t enough. It still leaves the hard work—remediation—on the shoulders of resource-constrained teams. That’s why we built Reclaim to focus on automated exposure remediation—and to do it safely, in a way that doesn’t paralyze IT or disrupt users.
Here’s how Reclaim aligns with the preemptive model described in the report:
- Simulation-Driven Planning: Our PIPE™ engine (Productivity Impact Prediction Engine) forecasts the impact of each security change before it’s enforced—empowering security teams to move fast without collateral damage.
- Hyper-Tailored Remediations: Reclaim maps gaps to real-world attacker behaviors, then proposes and implements fixes tuned to your organization’s environment, user patterns, and toolset.
- Autonomous, Adaptive Deployment: Once validated, Reclaim enforces policies automatically—continuously adjusting for drift, business changes, and risk landscape shifts.
It’s not just about finding issues. It’s about closing the loop, continuously and confidently.
A Personal Reflection on Analyst Recognition
I’ve worked with Gartner analysts since my days at Trusteer, where I nervously gave my first briefing trying to explain what “man-in-the-browser” meant. I’ve seen the long road it can take to gain visibility—from pushing Checkmarx into the Leaders quadrant in the Application Security MQ, to having Cognigo on analyst radars just before being acquired by NetApp.
To see Reclaim mentioned so early in this report—before we’re even a household name—is not just encouraging. It’s significant.
It tells me we’ve hit the nerve. The pain we’re solving is real. And our approach is not just different—it’s where the market is headed.
Final Thoughts
If your team is still chasing findings across dashboards, struggling to align with IT, and drowning in remediation tasks, you’re not alone. But the future outlined in this report offers a path forward—one that Reclaim is proud to be pioneering.
We’re grateful to Elizabeth Kim and Apoorva Chhabra for their thoughtful analysis in “Emerging Tech: The Future of Exposure Management is Preemptive.” (Gartner Membership Required) Their framing of this transformation is both timely and spot-on.
We believe the next wave in security is not about managing threats—it’s about eliminating them.
Reclaim is ready. Are you?