Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for XaaS, 2026
The Future of Continuous Testing
As cloud, AI, identities, applications and attack surfaces change faster, organisations need more than isolated assessments. They need an ongoing programme that combines the right testing capabilities at the right time - from continuous penetration testing and attack surface management to exposure validation and Red Teaming.
Rootshell Security is named as a Sample Vendor for Red Teaming as a Service in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for XaaS, 2026.
What you'll learn:
- How Gartner defines Red Teaming as a Service and why it matters.
- Business drivers accelerating demand for ongoing adversarial validation.
- Operational, maturity, legal and coordination challenges.
- Recommendations for readiness, intelligence-driven scenarios, rules of engagement, purple-team replay and measurable resilience.
- Where RTaaS sits within the wider Hype Cycle XaaS.
Continuous Testing is bigger than one testing technique
HUMAN-LED. AI-AUGMENTED.
Continuous Testing
Gartner RTaaS definition explicitly combines humans and automation.
Rootshell’s approach follows the same principle across Continuous Testing: use automation and AI where they improve scale and analysis, while keeping experienced security professionals at the centre of testing, validation, judgement and remediation guidance.
Gartner, Hype Cycle for XaaS, 2026, 7 July 2026
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