Pikered named a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)

Advancing Adversarial Exposure Validation with a European approach.

The Value of Adversarial Exposure Validation

Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) enables organizations to continuously assess their real-world security posture by simulating attacker behavior and validating existing defenses.

By shifting from static assessments to continuous validation, AEV helps security teams move from reactive to proactive defense.

“AEV is a disruptive trend in the security operations markets”, the Market Guide states, and we believe it enables Blue Teams by increasing the quality and lowering the volume of findings, and it scales Red Teams by automating attack simulation scenarios.

Pikered has been recognized in the Market Guide thanks to ZAIUX Evo which, we believe, takes AEV a step forward by employing a Command & Control architecture to autonomously emulate an end-to-end malware infection. This unique approach lets organizations identify exploitable attack paths with even more confidence, test security controls against realistic adversarial scenarios, prioritize remediation based on actual risk, and gain actionable insights to strengthen resilience over time.

“I am extremely proud of this recognition, reached after just three years of positioning ZAIUX Evo on the market, made possible thanks to an intense and determined growth journey” says Marco Gallina, Managing Director of Pikered “We think this recognition represents an important confirmation of the strength of our vision which, thanks to the daily commitment of all team members in developing an innovative and internationally competitive solution, enables us to compete in the complex global cybersecurity market and to proactively look toward new growth objectives.”

Digital sovereignty is no longer optional

ZAIUX Evo stands out as the only Italian and one of the few European Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) solutions.

In a market often dominated by non-European vendors, in our view, this represents a significant step toward strengthening the European cybersecurity ecosystem, ensuring greater technological independence and aligning with regulatory and data protection frameworks.

Organizations across Italy and Europe are increasingly prioritizing control over their security infrastructures to build long-term resilience: choosing European cybersecurity solutions like ZAIUX Evo helps reduce dependency on external technologies and ensures data governance and compliance.

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Disclaimer

Gartner, Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation, Dhivya Poole, Mitchell Schneider, et al., 24 March 2026

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