BreachLock Named Sample Vendor for PTaaS and AEV in Two New 2025 Gartner® Reports

BreachLock has been named as a Sample Vendor for Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) and Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) in two Gartner reports, a move described by CyberNewsWire as recognising the company’s ongoing commitment to scalable, flexible offensive security solutions. The recognition appears in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for Application Security, with a follow-up noting BreachLock’s AEV placement in the report From Defense to Offense: How to Champion Proactive Cybersecurity.

According to Gartner, PTaaS overlaps with AEV but they differ in adoption and operation, and BreachLock offers both on a single platform to simplify adoption for customers. BreachLock’s founder and CEO, Seemant Sehgal, says it is an honour to be recognised by Gartner so consistently and highlights the firm’s continued innovation across penetration testing and adversarial exposure validation.

The announcement, issued from New York on 19 September 2025 by CyberNewsWire, emphasises BreachLock’s use of a flexible PTaaS delivery model and its AI-powered AEV engine to enable real‑time vulnerability identification and automated attack simulations for ongoing security testing. Gartner does not endorse any vendor or product depicted in its research publications, the release notes, but the overall message suggests BreachLock aims to help security teams strengthen defences as threats evolve.