Gartner® Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases in Preemptive Cyber Defense

Preemptive cyber defense technologies are on track to disrupt the overall cybersecurity market. Product leaders must start adopting a preemptive cyber defense strategy by leveraging the top use cases discussed here or risk getting left behind in the market.

Key Findings:

• Organizations use preemptive cyber defense tech to tackle ransomware and zero-day flaws, cut insurance costs, and boost audit scores.
• Prevention, faster detection and deeper forensics improve security ops and reduce mean time to respond (MTTR). Preemptive tech cuts investigation time by 65%, offering instant forensic data for swift action.
• The use of preemptive cyber defense technologies adds significant value to existing security controls and enhances threat detection in complex, dynamic environments.

Recommendations:

• Adopt preemptive and predictive defense tech to focus on threat disruption, simulation, exposure management, deceptions and network prevention.
• Design preemptive cyber defense solutions to enhance existing detection and response security controls and improve overall cyber resilience; avoid stand-alone threat detection methods.
• Address IT, operational technology (OT) and software supply chains as priority customer concerns when developing new preemptive cyber defense technology solutions and platforms.