Forrester Recognizes NetSPI in Proactive Security Landscape Report  

Security leaders, especially across healthcare, financial services, e-commerce, and high-growth technology companies, are facing an uncomfortable truth: reactive security models can’t keep up with expanding digital footprints. As attack surfaces sprawl across cloud, AI, third parties, and hybrid infrastructure, organizations need proactive security strategies that continuously identify, validate, and prioritize real-world risk. 

To us, that’s why inclusion in The Proactive Security Platforms Landscape, Q1 2026 by Forrester is so significant. We’re proud to announce that NetSPI has been recognized among Notable Vendors in this independent market overview, which we believe underscores our commitment to delivering proactive security through our modern pentesting platform. 

About The Proactive Security Platforms Landscape, Q1 2026 

The first Proactive Security Platforms Landscape report provides an overview of 42 vendors that help organizations consolidate visibility, prioritize exposures, and drive remediation across increasingly complex environments. It reflects growing enterprise demand for integrated exposure management, vulnerability risk management (VRM), and attack surface management (ASM) capabilities, all aligned to measurable business risk. 

As stated in the report, Forrester defines proactive security platforms as: “A platform that consolidates assets and exposures with an organizational perspective, prioritizes optimal remediations, and augments and orchestrates remediation processes.” 

For IT and security management teams, compliance officers, and business leaders, this definition reinforces a core shift: proactive security is foundational. 

The Importance of Proactive Security Today 

Security teams today are overwhelmed by siloed tools. As organizations embraced cloud-native architectures, AI-driven systems, and hybrid environments, point solutions emerged to protect each layer—CSPM for cloud, AI-SPM for AI systems, EASM for external assets, standalone VRM tools, and more. 

But attackers don’t operate in silos. Fragmented tools and disconnected data leave teams without critical context. A cloud misconfiguration, exposed credential, or vulnerable application may seem low risk on its own but, when combined, create exploitable attack paths. Most point solutions also lack business and risk context, making it hard for compliance officers and risk managers to prioritize what needs immediate attention versus what can wait. 

The result? Overwhelmed teams, alert fatigue, and misaligned priorities. 

NetSPI’s Proactive Security Solution 

Security teams need solutions that go beyond identifying vulnerabilities. They need tools that prioritize and validate risks. It’s not enough to know a vulnerability exists; proving it’s reachable and exploitable through adversarial validation and real-world pentesting. 

NetSPI’s modern pentesting platform is purpose-built to unify proactive security disciplines into a cohesive solution. Rather than treating penetration testing as a once-a-year compliance exercise, NetSPI enables ongoing, proactive penetration testing programs through a single platform that combines: 

• Proactive pentesting and validation 
• Comprehensive attack surface visibility 
• Risk-based vulnerability prioritization 
• Detective control validation 
• Integrated exposure management workflows 

NetSPI is recognized in the report among Notable Vendors.  

Forrester asked each vendor included in the Landscape to select the top use cases for which clients select them and from there determined which are the extended use cases that highlight differentiation among the vendors. NetSPI is shown in the report for having selected the following use cases as top reasons clients work with them out of those extended use cases: 

• Continuous security testing 
• Exposure and vulnerability detection 
• Security policy management 

By combining human expertise with scalable automation and AI capabilities, our platform validates what attackers can actually exploit, not just what scanners detect. This enables security and risk teams to align remediation efforts with real-world business impact. 

For compliance-driven industries, this approach strengthens audit readiness. For security operations teams, it reduces noise. For executives, it provides measurable risk reduction tied to organizational objectives. Proactive security is about finding the vulnerabilities and fixing the right ones, faster. 

Request a demo of our platform today: https://www.netspi.com/contact/. 

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