Skyhawk Security has been named a Sample Vendor in Gartner® research, Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race — Avoid the Intelligent Simulation Tech Trap With Targeted Business Outcomes. The company offers Intelligent Simulation capabilities, the technology at the heart of our mission to help organizations prevent cloud breaches.
The problem: a clean dashboard is not a safe cloud
Security teams are buried in alerts, findings, and telemetry that all demand time and attention. None of it can be safely ignored, because any single data point might be the one that leads to a breach.
But volume isn’t the only problem, so is trust in what the tools don’t flag. In a recent exercise, Skyhawk Security’s AI Red Team achieved a full AWS Organization takeover in an environment where no critical findings had been raised. No exploit, no CVE, no misconfiguration flagged as critical. The AI Red Team dynamically chained together legitimate configurations to reach full control of the AWS Org.
That’s game over, in an environment that looked clean.
In our opinion, Skyhawk’s approach aligns with this quote from a different piece of Gartner research, AI Vendor Race: The Most Disruptive AI Race Use Cases Redefining Our World: “The age of reactive cybersecurity is over. As AI-powered threats proliferate, only AI-driven preemptive cybersecurity offers a viable defense. This isn’t just an enhancement; it’s a paradigm shift toward an autonomous cyber immune system (ACIS). In a world where AI-enabled cyber warfare threatens to unravel business, cripple infrastructure, and erode trust, preemptive cybersecurity is the only path to survival in the AI race.”
Key differentiators that effectively leverage Intelligent Simulation
An adversarial AI Red Team, not a scripted playbook
The AI Red Team runs simulations against a digital twin of the customer’s cloud inside the SaaS platform, so production systems and the people who run them are never touched. Attacks are generated by adversarial AI rather than pre-scripted playbooks, and they are designed specifically around the cloud security controls and cloud architecture you actually have in place. As that architecture and those controls change, the attacks are continuously regenerated, so risk stays correctly prioritized against the environment as it exists today, not as it looked at the last assessment.
In our opinion, this aligns with Gartner’s description in the Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race — Avoid the Intelligent Simulation Tech Trap With Targeted Business Outcomes: “It provides greater accuracy, efficiency, and proactive capabilities than traditional AI or simulation products. Through continuous ingestion and curation of data, intelligent simulation optimizes and automates scenarios and decisions for both physical and digital systems.”
Weaponization-based prioritization tied to asset value
Skyhawk’s Intelligent Simulation surfaces validated, weaponized threats to your most valuable business assets, not theoretical exposures ranked by severity score. That risk-based prioritization cuts through the noise generated by the rest of the security stack and focuses teams on the work that actually reduces business risk. For one customer, Skyhawk Security reduced CNAPP alerts by 99.7%, leaving a short list of findings that genuinely move the needle on cloud risk.
A closed purple-team loop with rehearsed response
Every simulated attack step is mapped to a detection indicator, so compensating controls are in place while development teams work through remediation. Responses are then rehearsed in the simulation twin to confirm they stop the attack without breaking production. The result: unpatchable posture debt is converted into trusted runtime coverage.
The outcome that matters: preventing cloud breaches
Skyhawk Security’s mission is to deliver preemptive, proactive cloud security so organizations are ready for the autonomous AI attacks that are already here.
This is no longer a forecast. The 2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report found an 89% year-over-year increase in attacks by AI-enabled adversaries, and AWS, Anthropic, and others have publicly documented intrusions carried out with AI assistance.
Skyhawk’s AI Red Team, an Intelligent Simulation platform, helps organizations find the AI-enabled attack paths into their cloud before an adversary does, so the security team is prepared to stop the attack and prevent the breach.
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Gartner subscribers can read the full report at https://www.gartner.com
Gartner, Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race — Avoid the Intelligent Simulation Tech Trap With Targeted Business Outcomes, Evan Brown, Matt Dooley, Tsuneo Fujiwara, 27 August 2026
Gartner, AI Vendor Race: The Most Disruptive AI Race Use Cases Redefining our World, Carl Manion, Errol Rasit, 28 August 2026
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