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Exposure Assessment Platforms Signal a Shift in Focus - Stanley - Jan 29, 2026

Exposure Assessment Platforms Signal a Shift in Focus

Gartner® doesn’t create new categories lightly. Generally speaking, a new acronym only emerges when the industry's collective "to-do list" has become mathematically impossible to complete. And so it seems that the introduction of the Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAP) category is a formal admission that traditional Vulnerability Management (VM) is no longer a viable way to secure a modern

https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/exposure-assessment-platforms-signal.html


RE: Exposure Assessment Platforms Signal a Shift in Focus - Moooookie - Jan 29, 2026

Sounds about right.. VM alone can’t keep up anymore, exposure context finally matters more than actual raw findings.