New York, United States, April 21, 2026/CyberNewswire/–BreachLocka global leader in attack protection, today announced that it has been named a representative vendor2026 Gartner Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation.
This recognition marks the first time that BreachLock has been identified in the Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) category since the launch of its AI-powered agentValidation of adversarial exposurePlatform in 2025. Not only has the company quickly made a name for itself in the AEV market, but BreachLock has also become the only provider to offer adversarial exposure validation, penetration testing as a service (PTaaS), and continuous attack surface management (CTEM) within a unified platform.
Gartner defines adversarial exposure validation as “technologies that provide consistent, continuous, and automated evidence of the feasibility of an attack” and identifies it as a key enablerContinuous threat managementprograms.
“There is no other agent-offensive security solution on the market that is backed by the depth of real-world data and enterprise validation that BreachLock provides,” said Seemant Sehgal, founder and CEO of BreachLock. “Seven years of proven production reliability, backed by over 40,000 deployments and the trust of a growing base of Fortune 100 customers, sets us apart. This recognition is clear evidence of that.”
While many providers offer validation of the enemy threat as an independent tool, BreachLock offers this at the same time PTaaS and CTEM, which enables security teams to move from detection and prioritization to validation and expert-led testing within a consolidated platform and single provider. BreachLock is one of the first vendors to offer autonomous penetration testing for both network and web environments, and it’s worth noting that the platform is deployed agentlessly, with no hardware or complex setup required.
BreachLock’s autonomous penetration testing capabilities are based on an agent AI trained on tens of thousands of real-world penetration tests and are proven to be able to autonomously perform penetration testing at the level of an experienced penetration tester. BreachLock AEV securely emulates real adversaries in an enterprise’s live environment, maps the results to the MITER ATT&CK framework, and, if authorized, moves laterally to and actively exploits vulnerabilities.
This takes the understanding of risk to a new level and proves exploitability rather than just showing the theoretical risk. This significantly benefits enterprise security teams by helping them focus their remediation efforts and direct resources where they matter most.
For organizations looking to scale their offensive security testing capabilities both autonomously and with human expertise, BreachLock’s in-house penetration testers are available to conduct deeper investigations, manual assessments, and compliance-driven engagements through its PTaaS offering.
About BreachLock
BreachLockis a global leader in attack protection, providing scalable and continuous security testing. Trusted by global enterprises, BreachLock provides human-led and AI-powered attack surface management, penetration testing as a service, red teaming, and adversarial threat validation solutions that help security teams stay one step ahead of attackers. With a mission to make proactive security the new standard, BreachLock is shaping the future of cybersecurity through automation, data-driven intelligence and expert-driven execution.
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