ReliaQuest Recognized as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies
At ReliaQuest, we've built GreyMatter on a clear belief: threat intelligence delivers the most value when it's operationalized across security operations for stronger, faster defense. That belief shapes how we approach every part of the platform.
We’re seeing how AI is accelerating attackers. In 2025, the fastest data exfiltration we observed was six minutes—down from over four hours the year before. Simply collecting intelligence for periodic review is no longer enough. Security teams need to go beyond collecting intel. They need to use it to power action.
Our approach starts with collecting and unifying threat intelligence into a single operational view within GreyMatter. In the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies, Gartner recognized ReliaQuest as a Visionary for this approach.
For security teams, that recognition signals a shift: the future of threat intelligence is not simply in gathering more data, but in operationalizing it to help teams detect, investigate, and respond before adversaries can execute.
Threat Intelligence Is Too Valuable Not to Operationalize
Most organizations treat threat intelligence as a research function. Intelligence reports are skimmed during quarterly briefings as valuable intelligence that could have been used to autonomously update detection rules or trigger containment actions is instead filed away.
The reality is that threat intelligence is the foundation of proactive security operations. Without it, detection rules stagnate, investigations lack context, and response actions are generic rather than environment specific. The missed opportunities to leverage threat intel are often the difference between staying ahead of threats and falling victim to them.
When exfiltration happens in minutes and detection takes nearly an hour, intelligence that isn’t operationalized is just documentation.
How GreyMatter Operationalizes Threat Intelligence
Within GreyMatter, threat intelligence is continuously collected from over 50 feeds spanning deep, dark, and open web sources, combined with proprietary collection systems and human-led research. By correlating intelligence with assets, identities, vulnerabilities, and IOCs in a unified model, GreyMatter turns intelligence into direct operational context for detection, investigation, and response.
For example, when GreyMatter identifies a customer’s executive credentials in a stealer log, that signal doesn’t sit in a queue waiting for manual review. GreyMatter immediately triggers a detection update across your SIEM and EDR tools, scopes the impacted identities, and initiates containment actions. From there, teams can investigate and respond directly within GreyMatter, rather than switching between fragmented tools and workflows.
This is what it means to operationalize threat intelligence.
That shift from intelligence as reference material to intelligence as an operational driver is what moves a SOC out of reactive, into proactive—and ultimately predictive operations.
What Gartner Recognized In GreyMatter
Gartner's evaluation identified four core strengths in GreyMatter:
1. AI-orchestrated decisioning.
GreyMatter embeds agentic AI and automated workflows directly into the platform, enabling analysts to move from intelligence discovery to investigation to response in a single operational environment.
2. Integrated data fabric.
Rather than requiring centralized data ingestion, GreyMatter executes detection logic, enrichment, and response actions natively across your existing security tools.
3. Automated detection engineering.
GreyMatter supports automated rule creation, tuning, back-testing, and false positive reduction— streamlining workloads that traditionally consume significant analyst cycles.
4. Proprietary dark web intelligence.
Intelligence is aggregated through proprietary systems designed to surface malicious indicators, infrastructure, and threat behaviors, including exposed credentials, stealer-log data, ransomware signals, and activity across criminal forums.
In the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyberthreat Intelligence Technologies, Gartner recognized ReliaQuest as a Visionary. This placement validates what we've built in GreyMatter: a platform where threat intelligence functions as the connective tissue between detection engineering, alert triage, and response orchestration. And the impact is measurable. GreyMatter Agentic Teammates autonomously investigate and respond to 100% of alerts across 250+ technologies with 99.4% accuracy—more than 74 million times a year—while GreyMatter customers contain threats in under 5 minutes.
Our placement as a Visionary reflects more than strength in threat intelligence alone. It signals that the future of security operations lies in operationalizing intelligence across the entire lifecycle—from detection engineering to investigation and response.
That’s what GreyMatter customers already see in production: a platform where threat intelligence powers every detection, every investigation, and every response action autonomously, and at scale. That operational reality is what we'll continue to build on.
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