Ridge Security Named Gartner 2026 Hype Cycle Sample Vendor

Ridge Security Recognized in the Adversarial Exposure Validation Category

Ridge Security 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 recognised in this research.

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The security industry is undergoing a fundamental structural shift – away from reactive, point-in-time assessments and toward continuous, threat-led validation.

For Ridge Security, this acknowledgment signals its place among a select group of vendors redefining how organizations validate and strengthen their security posture in an era of accelerating threats

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.

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“The capabilities demonstrated by models like Mythos underscore how quickly AI is accelerating offensive cyber operations,” said Lydia Zhang, President and Co-founder of Ridge Security. “Defenders need to operate on the same premise. Continuous, AI-driven adversarial exposure validation is what turns a security program from a compliance exercise into a real defense – one that tells you what attackers can actually use against you, right now.”

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