A CYBER RANGES perspective on Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2026
STAFFORD, VA, UNITED STATES, June 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Gartner’s 2026 security operations research is useful to CYBER RANGES as a vendor not because it offers a recognition to display, but because it captures a larger market correction. Security operations are being pushed away from static assurance and towards continuous validation. In that frame, cyber ranges belong in the same conversation as CTEM, adversarial exposure validation, RTaaS and PTaaS: not as a training theatre, but as the environment where exposure data, controls, playbooks and human decisions are tested together.
The signal in the Gartner paper
The relevant point in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2026 is not simply that Cyber Range appears as a category, or that CYBER RANGES is listed among the Sample Vendors. The more important point is the architecture of Gartner’s argument. Security operations is being described as a market undergoing structural correction: traditional reactive models are under pressure, CTEM is moving from concept to operating priority, and security leaders are being pushed to…
