Gartner says AI is closing attack paths faster than patching
Original title: Gartner Report: The Attack Path is Closing Faster than Most Teams Can Patch
Rapid7 is offering free access to the May 28, 2026 Gartner report and tying it to its own exposure-management pitch.
Rapid7 published a blog promoting complimentary access to Gartner’s report Mythos Reprioritizes Cybersecurity Outcomes and Investments. Gartner says Mythos shortens the gap between theoretical weaknesses and executable attack scenarios and forecasts that new frontier-AI models will overtake Mythos by 2027. The report urges outcome metrics such as attack-path coverage, patching cadence, and mean time to remediate. Rapid7 cites its Project Glasswing work with Claude Mythos Preview and its vulnerability-management features.
Unconfirmed: Gartner’s statements are research opinions and forecasts, not confirmed incidents or measured results.
- The cited Gartner report is dated May 28, 2026, by Paul Proctor, John Watts, and Emily Tan.
- Gartner says its publications are opinions and should not be treated as statements of fact.
- Recommended measures include compensating-control deployment cadence and technology debt.
- AI models
- Claude Mythos Preview
From the original article
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Security teams have never lacked vulnerability data. The harder problem is deciding which issues create a credible path to business impact, then acting before that path can be used. As frontier AI makes it faster and less expensive to connect weaknesses, operational assumptions, and legitimate system behavior, that decision window is becoming even tighter.
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