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Emerging Tech: The Global Attack Surface Grid Demands Unified Exposure Management: A Gartner® Report

[September 2025]

Gartner® latest report shows that Exposure management point solutions are giving way to unified approaches as organizations face rapidly expanding and complex global attack surface grid . By 2028, 60% of exposure management solutions will deliver unified exposure management capabilities – up from 10% in 2025 driven by the imperative to ineffectively manage an expanding global attack surface in the face of AI-enabled threats.

Key Insights from the Report:

  1. The accelerating expansive of the global attack surface grid and rising attack sophistication are rending fragmented exposure management ineffective. C-Level executives at technology vendors must prioritize AI-driven, unified exposure management solutions to maintain a competitive advantage and enable a preemptive security strategy.
  2. Strategic collaboration with complimentary technology providers, service providers and key influencers is essential to unify fragmented capabilities, deliver comprehensive visibility across the global attack surface grid, and accelerate the adoption of unified exposure management.

Gartner, Emerging Tech: The Global Attack Surface Grid Demands Unified Exposure Management, Sept 26 2025.

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