Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024

Gartner’s 2024 Hype Cycle for Security Operations provides strategic guidance for security leaders to make incremental shifts toward initiatives like cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), leverage consolidation and automation to reduce overhead, use breach and attack simulation (BAS) to validate control efficacy and identify critical exposure paths, apply rigorous governance to cut through marketing hype, test provider performance outcomes, and evaluate AI cybersecurity assistants for efficiency and skills augmentation.