REFLEX SECURITY / INSIGHTS
Crisis Simulation: A Category of One
Richard Stiennon's Guardians of the Machine Age maps 1,318 independently validated AI security vendors. Across the entire map, the Crisis Simulation category has exactly one name: Reflex Security.
Cassio Goldschmidt

Richard Stiennon, former Gartner VP of Research, founder of IT-Harvest, and author of the annual Security Yearbook, published Guardians of the Machine Age this year: a map of the AI security landscape with 1,318 vendors, each independently validated as genuinely AI.
Across the entire map, the Crisis Simulation category has exactly one name: Reflex Security.
A new category appears when the old label stops fitting. History shows we keep using old solutions until we innovate our way out. Buffer overflow is a classic example. For decades, the industry found them one at a time (scan, patch, disclose, repeat). Then we went after the bug class itself with memory-safe languages. The old solution didn't get better. It got retired.
Tabletop exercises are heading the same way. The activity the industry relies on to prepare for an incident is a sports team that has read the rules but never played together. No sport would field that team. Security fields it every year and calls it ready.
Let that sink in for a moment. When did your team last practice a crisis, not just talk through one?