Gartner’s Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Preemptive Cybersecurity opens with this quote:

“Advancements in open and frontier AI models reinforce the need to embed preemptive cybersecurity as attackers more effectively chain vulnerabilities, exploit exposures more quickly and evade detection more smartly. Product leaders must incorporate preemptive cybersecurity as they build an autonomous cyber immune system.”

Skyhawk’s AI Red Team Achieves AWS Org Takeover

In Skyhawk’s opinion, this statement closely matches our June product capability announcement. This summer, a leading fintech asked Skyhawk to test its cloud security. The team was confident we would find nothing, because their leading CNAPP had reported no critical findings.

Skyhawk’s AI Red Team dynamically manipulated legitimate configurations and permissions, chained them together, and achieved full AWS Organization takeover. Anyone reading this knows what happens when a threat actor gains control of an AWS Org: it’s game over.

The Gartner report continues: “Preemptive cybersecurity emphasizes acting before attacks occur and seeks to deny opportunities for adversaries to launch them. It aims to create a state where organizations neutralize threats before they manifest. This capability is critical to achieve adaptive cyber resiliency and serves as a core component of an autonomous cyber immune system (ACIS), the future of security operations.”

In our opinion, this shows why you need to find out how an AI-enabled threat actor would breach your cloud before they do. Skyhawk’s AI Red Team uses a digital twin and Intelligent Simulation to run attacks safely. It shows how well your cloud architecture and security controls would hold up against an AI-enabled attacker.

How does Gartner define Agentic Red Teaming?

“Agentic red teaming (ART) uses semiautonomous and autonomous, context-aware AI agents to independently reason about, navigate, and exploit complex attack paths within enterprise infrastructure and web applications. Unlike legacy breach and attack simulation tools and early-generation adversarial exposure validation (AEV) platforms that rely on static or preorchestrated playbooks, ART leverages modular, multiagent architectures to dynamically plan, adapt, and execute tailored attack strategies. ART leverages AI reasoning models to serve as the live execution loop for ad hoc and continuous, reasoning-based offense.”

Skyhawk Security Key Capabilities

An adversarial AI Red Team, not a scripted playbook

The AI Red Team runs simulations against a digital twin of your cloud inside the Skyhawk SaaS platform, so production systems and the people who run them are never touched. Adversarial AI generates the attacks instead of pre-scripted playbooks, and each attack is built around the cloud architecture and security controls you actually have in place. As those change, the attacks are regenerated continuously. That keeps risk prioritized against your environment as it is today, not as it looked at your last assessment.

In our opinion, this aligns with Gartner’s observation: “Organizations increasingly require systems capable of dynamic attack path exploration, multistep reasoning, and real-time plan correction to uncover vulnerabilities and business logic flaws.”

Skyhawk Security’s autonomous reasoning, continuous validation, and proven exploitability can help organizations prevent catastrophic cyberattacks. Our latest announcement makes this clear: the AI Red Team reasoned its way to a complete AWS Org takeover in seconds.

This changes the question CISOs and security leaders should be asking. It’s no longer “How many known techniques do you cover?” It’s “Can you reason about my environment and show me what an autonomous attacker could actually do inside it, today and again tomorrow?” Skyhawk Security is ready to answer that question. Our AI Red Team reasons through your cloud architecture and security controls to show exactly how an autonomous AI attack would unfold. Another blog post covers the difference between AI red teams that reason and those that replay.

Weaponization-based prioritization tied to asset value

Skyhawk’s Intelligent Simulation surfaces validated, weaponized threats to your most valuable business assets instead of theoretical exposures ranked by severity score. This risk-based prioritization cuts through the noise from the rest of the security stack. It 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 make a real difference to cloud risk.

A continuous, 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 digital twin to confirm they stop the attack without breaking production. The result: unpatchable posture debt becomes trusted runtime coverage. Because simulations run continuously, your cloud security controls stay validated as your cloud architecture changes.

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Gartner, Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Preemptive Cybersecurity by Elizabeth Kim published on September 11, 2026.

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