Siemba Named a Sample Vendor in Three 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ Reports for the Third Consecutive Year

ATLANTA, Sept. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemba, a leading Offensive Security provider announced that it was named a Sample Vendor for Penetration Testing as a Service in three 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ reports: the Hype Cycle for Security Operations, the Hype Cycle for Application Security, and the Hype Cycle for XaaS.

This marks the third consecutive year Siemba has been named in all three Hype Cycle reports, following three reports in 2025 and three in 2024. Siemba believes this reinforces its continued role in shaping the future of offensive security.

In our view, the Gartner Hype Cycle reports provide a perspective on the maturity and adoption of emerging technologies. For cybersecurity and infrastructure decision-makers, they serve as strategic guides for evaluating technology maturity, adoption timelines, and investment priorities. Siemba's inclusion spans three distinct research agendas:

• The 2026 Hype Cycle for Security Operations, which examines the technologies and services that enable the operational defense of digital assets, including the continued growth of CTEM as a priority for security teams.
   
• The 2026 Hype Cycle for Application Security, which examines how AI transformation, agentic applications, and shifting DevSecOps practices are reshaping enterprise application risk.
   
• The 2026 Hype Cycle for XaaS, which examines how everything as a service is redefining IT as a utility and platform-driven consumption model.

Our takeaways in all three reports - PTaaS is profiled as delivering automated and human-led testing through a SaaS platform, supporting point-in-time, continuous, and change-driven assessments, and increasingly incorporating external attack surface discovery to expand coverage. The research notes that PTaaS supports Continuous Threat Exposure Management through dynamic scoping, adaptive retesting, and faster mobilization of results, and that it enables continuous or change-based validation earlier in the software development life cycle while delivering findings through a platform that accelerates remediation and collaboration.

"To us, being named a Sample Vendor in all three reports for a third consecutive year reflects the growing enterprise conviction that continuous, platform-driven offensive security is no longer a nice-to-have. It is a strategic imperative," said Kannan Udayarajan, Founder and CEO of Siemba.

"Our Full Funnel Offensive Security platform is purpose-built for the speed and scale that modern security programs demand. We believe this reflects real momentum in how CISOs are modernizing their offensive security posture, particularly as AI-assisted development expands the attack surface faster than annual testing cycles can cover it."

Siemba's AI-driven platform combines External Attack Surface Mapping, AI-native Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), automated vulnerability assessments, and expert-led Penetration Testing as a Service, alongside coverage for emerging AI attack surfaces including MCP servers, agentic AI workflows, and LLM applications. Every fix is automatically retested, with certified engineer sign-off and audit-ready certificates issued through Verified Closure, helping enterprises operationalize CTEM programs at scale.

To learn more or download the 2026 Gartner Hype Cycle reports, visit: https://www.siemba.io/gartner-hype-cycle-2026

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Gartner, Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2026, Darren Livingstone, Jonathan Nunez, 5 June 2026

Gartner, Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2026, Dionisio Zumerle, 21 July 2026

Gartner, Hype Cycle for XaaS, 2026, Jason Donham, 7 July 2026

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About Siemba

Siemba's outcome-driven Full Funnel Offensive Security model brings together Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), AI-native Autonomous DAST, Vulnerability Assessments, and External Attack Surface Mapping on one unified AI-driven platform. The platform delivers actionable data and insights enabling visibility, speed, scalability, and efficiency in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).

Enterprises, global systems integrators, government agencies and growing companies leverage Siemba to establish CTEM programs, map assets, launch and schedule autonomous assessments, conduct expert-led penetration testing, and autonomously gather strategic threat and efficiency insights to maximize Return on Mitigation.

The platform provides one-click security-framework-aligned reports, attack scoring, prioritized findings with suggested remediation actions, and attack proofs of concept. Coverage extends across traditional web, API, and network attack surfaces as well as AI attack surfaces including MCP servers, agentic AI systems, and RAG pipelines. Testing is performed by in-house OSCP, CPENT and CEH certified engineers, and every fix is revalidated through Verified Closure.

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