Mythos Changed the Conversation. Use It to Fix Your Vulnerability Management for Good.

AI exploit hype is more than noise. It is leverage. Get the Gartner^® research note and make the case for the exposure management investments your team has needed for years - shorter remediation windows, clearer ownership, and risk reduction measured against attacker speed.

Download the Gartner^® report, Pivotal Moment: Capitalize on Mythos Hype to Fix Your Exposure and Vulnerability Management, to understand why exposure management needs to shift from static severity scoring to time-based risk reduction.

This Gartner report explores how AI-driven vulnerability discovery and exploitation are forcing security leaders to rethink exposure management around speed, ownership, and decision velocity. The report notes that many teams still rely on static scoring, manual approvals, and fragmented ownership, even as discovery and threat activity move at machine speed.

What the report covers

In this report, you’ll learn how to:

• Use the current attention around LLM-driven exploitation to reset exposure management priorities rather than pursue isolated AI features.
• Define shorter remediation SLAs that effectively address a new balance between attack velocity, defensive capabilities and operational risks, especially for critical assets
• Correlate exposures across attack surfaces and control domains to reflect realistic attack paths.
• Shift prioritization to explicitly guide actions: what to remediate immediately, validate for exploitability and defer based on risk context.
• Implement and test remediation automation processes to ensure quality and consistency at scale.
  

The report also highlights that only 48% of organizations prioritize exposures based on likelihood and business impact, leaving many business-critical assets exposed longer than necessary.

Why Contrast built for this moment

Traditional vulnerability management often starts with scanner findings. Contrast starts with runtime evidence.

Contrast observes what applications actually do in production and pre-production, helping teams identify which vulnerabilities are actually reached, exploitable, targeted, or tied to sensitive business services. That runtime context helps AppSec, SecOps, and development teams move from generic prioritization to faster, more defensible action.

With Contrast, teams can:

• See which vulnerabilities are actually reached at runtime
• Understand which attack paths are viable
• Block attacks in production while fixes are underway
• Route remediation into developer workflows
• Measure exposure reduction based on real application behavior

Move from vulnerability volume to exposure reduction

AI did not create the exposure management problem. It made the gap impossible to ignore.

Download the Gartner report to see why security leaders are rethinking vulnerability management around attacker speed, validated exposure, and time-based risk reduction.