A new Frost & Sullivan Frost Radar™ report narrows a field of more than 30 vendors down to 15 true enterprise risk mitigation and management (ERMM) platforms — with Check Point pulling ahead on both innovation and growth.
Enterprise security teams are running out of patience for point solutions. That is the central message of a new Frost & Sullivan analysis, “Frost Radar™: Enterprise Risk Mitigation and Management Platforms, 2026,” which benchmarks 15 vendors capable of unifying attack surface management (ASM), cyber threat intelligence (CTI), and digital risk protection (DRP) into a single operational platform.
According to the report, authored by Danielle VanZandt with contributions from Jarad Carleton, physical, digital, operational, financial, and geopolitical risks are converging into multidomain threats that traditional, siloed risk tools can no longer address. Frost & Sullivan argues that visibility alone is insufficient; enterprises now demand platforms that correlate digital threat indicators with physical security signals and translate findings into measurable, board-level risk metrics.
A New Category Takes Shape
The analysts define enterprise risk mitigation and management (ERMM) as a distinct category that goes beyond the emerging continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) space. To qualify for the radar, a platform had to natively deliver ASM, CTI, and DRP together, carry out remediation without relying on third-party tools, and provide both outside-in (attacker’s view) and inside-out (internal risk) perspectives. Of more than 30 self-identified ERMM vendors, only 15 met these criteria.
Check Point Tops the Field
Check Point earned the top position as Visionary Leader, posting an Innovation Score of 4.30 and a Growth Score of 4.05 — the highest combined marks in the study. Frost & Sullivan credits the company’s ThreatCloud intelligence engine, large-scale telemetry, and evidence-driven analytics for strengthening prioritization by correlating external threats with organizational exposures and control weaknesses.
Growth, according to the report, has been driven substantially by acquisitions. The purchases of Cyberint and Veriti expanded Check Point’s threat intelligence and automated remediation capabilities, while the more recent acquisition of Cyclops strengthened cyber-asset ASM and exposure contextualization. Analysts note the company’s broad channel ecosystem and integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and ticketing platforms as further growth levers.
Even so, Frost & Sullivan’s “Frost Perspective” section flags room for improvement: streamlined workflow management for non-technical teams, expanded governance-focused and board-facing reporting, and continued investment in AI explainability to build trust in automated remediation.
The Rest of the Field
Joining Check Point in the Visionary Leaders quadrant are Group-IB, Recorded Future, Fortinet, and Rapid7 — vendors the report says combine strong innovation with proven commercial execution across security, governance, and operations use cases.
The Innovators quadrant includes BlueVoyant, ReliaQuest, Bitsight, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike. Frost & Sullivan describes these companies as matching leading competitors on platform design and megatrend adoption — particularly AI integration and cross-domain visibility — but says their challenge now is converting that technical vision into tangible growth.
Rounding out the radar as Contenders are Resecurity, CloudSEK, RiskProfiler, UpGuard, and CYFIRMA. The report characterizes this group as start-ups or specialty vendors that have broadened from niche tools into fuller ERMM offerings, with meaningful potential for disruption as their platforms mature.
Where the Market Is Heading
Frost & Sullivan’s best-practice guidance points enterprises toward three priorities: consolidating ASM, DRP, CTI, and third-party risk monitoring into one platform to eliminate operational silos; embedding automation and AI-assisted triage directly into SIEM, SOAR, and ITSM workflows rather than treating ERMM as passive monitoring; and extending risk programs to cover identity exposure, shadow AI usage, and non-human identities as attackers increasingly target credentials, APIs, and machine accounts.
The analysts identify three corresponding growth opportunities for vendors: rising enterprise appetite for consolidated, CTEM-aligned platforms; expanding attack surfaces driven by cloud adoption, remote work, and non-human identities; and enterprise demand for automation and executive-ready reporting amid persistent security staffing shortages.
With more than 30 vendors chasing ERMM status but only half meeting Frost & Sullivan’s bar, the report suggests the category is still consolidating — and that the vendors able to pair technical breadth with demonstrable business outcomes will define its next phase.
Dr. Jakob Jung is Editor-in-Chief of Security Storage and Channel Germany. He has been working in IT journalism for more than 20 years. His career includes Computer Reseller News, Heise Resale, Informationweek, Techtarget (storage and data center) and ChannelBiz. He also freelances for numerous IT publications, including Computerwoche, Channelpartner, IT-Business, Storage-Insider and ZDnet. His main topics are channel, storage, security, data center, ERP and CRM.
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