Gartner Report: The Attack Path is Closing Faster than Most Teams Can Patch

What happened?

Security teams have never lacked vulnerability data. The harder problem is deciding which issues create a credible path to business impact, then acting before that path can be used. As frontier AI makes it faster and less expensive to connect weaknesses, operational assumptions, and legitimate system behavior, that decision window is becoming even tighter. The Gartner® report, Mythos Reprioritizes Cybersecurity Outcomes and Investments, examines what this shift means for cybersecurity priorities and investment.

Key details

• Gartner report examines how frontier AI models collapse distance between theoretical weaknesses and executable attack scenarios.
• AI-assisted vulnerability discovery accelerates the speed at which separate weaknesses become credible attack paths.
• Gartner predicts Mythos will be overtaken by new frontier-AI-enabled models by 2027, signaling a new era of AI-assisted vulnerabilities.
• Security leaders should shift focus from vulnerability counts to speed of decision, response effectiveness, and tangible risk reduction.
• Gartner advises using attack path analysis to prioritize patches, virtual patches, and compensating controls mapped to critical business outcomes.

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