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Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2018

Published: 27 July 2018

Summary

Digital business accelerates the pace of application development and gives way to complex, interconnected software systems. Security leaders need to adopt innovations in the application security space to handle the growing complexity.

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  • What You Need to Know
  • The Hype Cycle
    • Climbing the Peak
    • Sliding Into the Trough
  • The Priority Matrix
  • Off the Hype Cycle
  • On the Rise
    • Application Security Testing Orchestration
    • Chaos Engineering
    • Application Monitoring and Protection
    • Application Vulnerability Correlation
  • At the Peak
    • API Threat Protection
    • Application Security Requirements and Threat Management
    • Software Usage Analytics
    • Container Security
    • Crowdsourced Security Testing Platforms
    • Bot Management
    • Format-Preserving Encryption
    • Business-Critical Application Security
    • Mediated APIs
    • Mobile Threat Defense
    • Privacy by Design
  • Sliding Into the Trough
    • Runtime Application Self-Protection
    • Protected Browsers
    • User and Entity Behavior Analytics
    • Application Shielding
    • Interactive Application Security Testing
    • DevSecOps
    • Dynamic Data Masking
    • Enterprise Mobile App Stores
    • Cloud Access Security Brokers
  • Climbing the Slope
    • Application Security Testing Suite
    • Managed WLAN
    • SOA Testing
    • SIEM
    • Software Composition Analysis
    • Web Application Firewalls
    • Application Security Professional Services
    • Database Audit and Protection
  • Entering the Plateau
    • Application Control
  • Appendixes
    • Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

Analysts:

Ayal Tirosh

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The Hype Cycle: Understanding the pitfalls and opportunities of innovations

How does a Gartner Hype Cycle™ work?

A Gartner Hype Cycle provides an objective map that helps you understand the real risks and opportunities of innovation, so you can avoid adopting something too early, giving up too soon, adopting too late, or hanging on too long. Every Hype Cycle includes five phases:

The innovation trigger starts when an event, like a technological breakthrough or a product launch, gets people talking.

The peak of inflated expectations is when product usage increases, but there’s still more hype than proof that the innovation can deliver what you need.

The trough of disillusionment happens when the original excitement wears off and early adopters report performance issues and low ROI.

The slope of enlightenment occurs when early adopters see initial benefits and others start to understand how to adapt the innovation to their organizations.

The plateau of productivity marks the point at which more users see real-world benefits and the innovation goes mainstream.

The Hype Cycle is more than just a diagram. You also get:
Evidence-backed insight

Hype Cycles tap into deep research, surveys and conversations with technology suppliers and Gartner clients.

An analysis of objective and value

The y-axis measures expectations. The x-axis relates them to the proven value of that innovation over time.

A long-term view

It often takes between three and five years for an innovation to move through the Hype Cycle, but some fall off along the way.

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