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Cyritex named as a Gartner® AEV Representative Vendor
Recently, Gartner®, the world's leading IT research and advisory company, released its highly anticipated report "Hype Cycle™ for Cybersecurity in China, 2025". Cyritex, a pioneer of cybersecurity metric validation platforms in China, was named as a Sample Vendor in the technology field of Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) due to its outstanding innovation and market practice in this cutting-edge area.
Why is Adversarial Exposure Validation Crucial?
In its report, Gartner defines AEV as: providing evidence for the feasibility of attacks through a consistent, continuous, and automated approach. By executing attack scenarios, this technology proves the existence and exploitability of exposures, thereby confirming how potential attack techniques could successfully exploit an organisation and bypass its security controls. Through automated and consistent testing, it helps enterprises gain better insights into weak points in their security posture. Its importance is reflected in several aspects:
Business Impact: AEV evaluates the effectiveness of security controls from an attacker's perspective, identifies potential exposures, and highlights vulnerable paths to critical assets. This helps security teams prioritises remediation/mitigation efforts and objectively assess the true value of existing security investments.
Core Drivers: In the face of increasing Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and ransomware attacks, AEV helps organisations stay ahead by simulating real-world attack scenarios. Meanwhile, for Chinese enterprises, AEV provides continuous validation of security defense systems for meeting cybersecurity compliance (such as the Cybersecurity Law) and preparing for national-level cyber drills, whilst freeing up red team resources to focus on more advanced attack scenarios.
Value Realisation: AEV filters out theoretical risks and only highlights those attack paths proven to be real and effective, driving enterprises to take the most urgent and necessary remediation actions and continuously optimize defensive configurations.
Cyritex: An Outstanding Practitioner of the AEV Concept
Cyritex's core product, the Cyritex Intelligent Security Validation Platform, is an outstanding practice of the AEV concept. The platform deeply integrates real-world APT attack scenarios, first-hand threat intelligence, and AI-driven adversarial techniques, perfectly aligning with the core requirements of AEV:
Continuous Validation: The platform provides automated attack playbook orchestration and execution capabilities, achieving 7x24x365 continuous validation of security systems.
Attacker's Perspective: Starting from an attacker's perspective, the platform does not just validate individual vulnerabilities but focuses on the complete attack chain to accurately pinpoint shortfalls in the defensive system.
Data-Driven: By analysing attack results, alert logs, and other data, the platform provides quantifiable metrics to help enterprises optimize security configurations, truly achieving defense optimization and risk reduction.
We are deeply honoured to be selected as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner AEV field. Gartner's profound insights into AEV coincide with the original aspiration of Cyritex's founding. We have always believed that security cannot just remain at a theoretical level; it must be tested by actual combat.
AEV technology is precisely the best path to normalise and intelligentise "actual combat testing". It helps enterprises focus their limited security resources on validated, realistically exploitable risks, and plays a key role particularly in empowering enterprises to prepare for cybersecurity exercises such as the "HVV" (Protecting the Network) and daily defenses. Looking ahead, Cyritex will continue to lead the development of AEV technology, empowering more Chinese enterprises to build truly effective proactive defense systems.
This recognition is not only a significant milestone in the development of Cyritex, but also signifies that the threat-oriented continuous validation methodology represented by AEV is becoming a core strategy for Chinese enterprises to cope with complex cyber threats and enhance security resilience. Reference: Gartner, Hype Cycle for Cybersecurity in China, 2025, 2 July 2025 – ID G00828354. Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER and HYPE CYCLE are registered trademarks and service marks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
