- Zynap is one of 13 Sample Vendors for Preemptive Exposure Management
- It’s the second Gartner report in a month to list Zynap as a Sample Vendor
- Gartner expects AI-driven validation in more than half of enterprise exposure assessment platforms by 2028, up from under 10% today
Barcelona, Spain, October 5, 2026 — Zynap, the preemptive security automation platform for MSSPs and enterprise security teams, has been named a Sample Vendor for Preemptive Exposure Management in the Gartner® Agentic Security: Preemptive Exposure Management Demands AI-Driven Validation and Autonomous Interdiction, published on 28 September (G00807714, Luis Castillo, Elizabeth Kim, Tom Powledge, Mitchell Schneider, Craig Lawson).
The report is written for product leaders building exposure management products. Gartner finds that discovery is now largely commoditized and that most exposure assessment platforms already prioritize by risk, and it traces how the market got here in three stages.
- Vulnerability assessment, which laid the foundation with discovery and risk scoring
- Exposure assessment, which added visibility, context and prioritization
- Preemptive exposure management, which Gartner describes as the next phase
What Gartner Means by Preemptive Exposure Management
Gartner defines preemptive exposure management by what it does after exposure assessment. It checks whether an exposure could form part of a real attack path, then disrupts or shuts down that path while the underlying fix is still pending.
That rests on two capabilities. AI-driven validation proves an exposure is exploitable instead of estimating that it might be, through predictive attack-path modeling or adversarial testing such as automated penetration testing and agentic red teaming. Autonomous interdiction adjusts security controls at runtime, through measures like virtual patching, network microsegmentation and changes to WAF, identity and endpoint controls, to break a validated path before an attacker reaches a critical asset.
Why Gartner Expects the Category to Grow Quickly
Gartner’s case starts with speed. Attackers using AI now find and exploit weaknesses faster than organizations can patch, so a ranked list of findings is no longer enough, and Gartner expects platforms that can’t connect validation to targeted action to be seen as producing tickets rather than reducing risk.
By 2028, it expects more than half of enterprise exposure assessment platforms to deliver AI-driven validation natively, up from less than 10% today, and at least 30% of security platforms with exposure management capabilities to support autonomous or semi-autonomous interdiction, up from less than 5%.
Patching often needs testing, approvals and a scheduled release, which leaves the attack path open in the meantime. Interdiction buys time until the fix lands, and the report draws a clear line between the two.
“Autonomous exposure remediation removes why the exposure exists. Autonomous interdiction disrupts how an attacker could succeed.”
Gartner, Agentic Security: Preemptive Exposure Management Demands AI-Driven Validation and Autonomous Interdiction, 28 September 2026
How Zynap Fits the Definition
The Zynap platform works through the stack a customer already runs rather than replacing it, and acts through the identity, endpoint, network and ticketing tools already in place.
- More than 600 million credentials are detected each month and checked to see which of them still work, and attack nodes run authorized offensive security operations as a step in a workflow.
- Workflows act on what they find through the tools already in place, for example by disabling a compromised account, blocking an indicator or isolating a host.
- Teams decide which actions run on their own and which wait for approval, and every action is traceable, auditable and reversible.
Gartner finds that fewer than 5% of platforms with exposure management capabilities support autonomous or semi-autonomous interdiction natively today. Zynap’s inclusion follows its listing earlier in September as a Sample Vendor for Autonomous Cyber Defense System in the Gartner® Emerging Tech Impact Radar™: Preemptive Cybersecurity, and a year in which the company completed its SOC 2 Type 2 audit, achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, launched the Zynap Sandbox and appointed Haroon Sammaraie as Chief Technology Officer.
About Zynap
Zynap is the preemptive security automation platform for MSSPs and enterprise security teams. It augments the stack a team already owns, unifying threat intelligence, exposure management, offensive validation and governed remediation into one operational layer, and turning intelligence and live context into coordinated action that reduces exploitable risk before it becomes an incident. Zynap is vendor and LLM agnostic and requires no rip and replace.
Founded in Barcelona in 2024, Zynap works with MSSPs and enterprise security teams across Europe and Latin America, and is backed by Kibo Ventures and Kfund.
For more information, visit www.zynap.com
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