--- title: Gartner Report: The Attack Path is Closing Faster than... description: AI is shrinking the time between discovering a weakness and an attacker turning it into a working exploit, according to a Gartner report Rapid7 is promoting.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gartner-report-the-attack-path-is-closing-faster-than-most-teams-can-patch-jtyfkfhgp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Gartner Report: The Attack Path is Closing Faster than Most Teams Can Patch | daily.dev og:description: AI is shrinking the time between discovering a weakness and an attacker turning it into a working exploit, according to a Gartner report Rapid7 is promoting.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gartner-report-the-attack-path-is-closing-faster-than-most-teams-can-patch-jtyfkfhgp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jtYfKFhgP.png og:image:alt: Gartner Report: The Attack Path is Closing Faster than Most Teams Can Patch og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Gartner Report: The Attack Path is Closing Faster than Most Teams Can Patch **[Rapid7 Cybersecurity Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/rapid7-blog)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI is shrinking the time between discovering a weakness and an attacker turning it into a working exploit, according to a Gartner report Rapid7 is promoting. Gartner's report, 'Mythos Reprioritizes Cybersecurity Outcomes and Investments,' says Mythos 'collapses the distance between theoretical weaknesses and executable attack scenarios' and predicts it will be overtaken by newer frontier-AI models by 2027. Gartner recommends teams shift from tracking vulnerability counts to measuring attack path analysis coverage, patching cadence, and mean time to remediate. Rapid7 says its own practitioner-led testing of Claude Mythos Preview, called Project Glasswing, supports this view, and it is offering complimentary access to the full report alongside its vulnerability management product. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What metrics does Gartner recommend security teams track instead of vulnerability counts? Gartner recommends outcome-driven measures instead of volume metrics, including attack path analysis coverage, patching cadence, compensating control deployment cadence, mean time to remediate, and technology debt. The shift is described in Gartner's report 'Mythos Reprioritizes Cybersecurity Outcomes and Investments,' which argues organizations should optimize for speed of decision and effectiveness of response rather than raw remediation activity. _Security leaders tracking exposure metrics can follow emerging AI-driven threat research on daily.dev._ ### What is Gartner's Mythos and why does it matter for vulnerability management Mythos is a frontier AI capability that Gartner says collapses the distance between theoretical weaknesses and executable attack scenarios, making it faster and cheaper to turn vulnerabilities into working exploits. Gartner predicts Mythos will be overtaken by newer frontier-AI-enabled models by 2027, framing this as the start of an ongoing era of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery rather than a one-time event. _Teams rethinking patch prioritization amid AI-sped exploits can track this shift on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Security in the Post-Mythos Era](https://daily.dev/posts/security-in-the-post-mythos-era-ynti0hmky) · Cisco · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Beware the ‘son of Mythos,’ security experts warn](https://daily.dev/posts/beware-the-son-of-mythos-security-experts-warn-dpywwlwdm) · CSO Online · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. 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