--- title: Intelligent Simulation 2025 image: https://info.xmcyber.com/hubfs/Newsletter%20260x260%20-%20JUly%202025%20-%20Gartner%20Flex%20Report%207.png --- [![](https://info.xmcyber.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Main%20logo%202.png?width=150&height=29&name=Main%20logo%202.png)](https://xmcyber.com/) **Intelligent Simulation Is Redefining Cybersecurity in 2025** You know your attack surface is growing - but can you simulate what’s coming next? Traditional security tools can tell you what’s happening now. Intelligent simulation helps you model what’s going to happen *next.* It uses AI, digital twins, and synthetic data to test complex threats in safe, controlled environments - before they hit production. With intelligent simulation, security teams can: - Continuously validate posture with dynamic, risk-aware digital twins - Model complex, multistep attack paths using both real threat data and synthetic scenarios - Run what-if simulations to assess proposed changes - before they’re rolled out The latest Gartner® report, *Emerging Tech: Intelligent Simulation Accelerates Proactive Exposure Management*, explains how this emerging technology is disrupting legacy validation tools and helping teams shift from reactive defense to proactive control. **Make 2025 the year you stop guessing - and start simulating. Get your copy of the report and see how.** Emerging Tech: Intelligent Simulation Accelerates Proactive Exposure Management 3 July 2025 By: Mark Wah, Elizabeth Kim, Luis Castillo  GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. ### Get the Gartner® Report ## XM Cyber, 2026