The Gartner Hype Cycle is a valuable tool for businesses to understand the maturity, adoption, and potential impact of emerging technologies. It helps organizations prioritize investments, manage expectations, and develop strategic roadmaps by illustrating where technologies stand - from the initial innovation trigger, through the peak of inflated expectations, the trough of disillusionment, and finally to the plateau of productivity.
What the Hype Cycle Means for Businesses
For businesses, the Hype Cycle serves as a guide to:
- Identify promising technologies that align with their strategic goals.
- Understand maturity levels and realistic timelines for adoption.
- Balance innovation with risk by avoiding premature investments in immature technologies.
- Plan for organizational change including skills development, process adaptation, and cultural shifts.
- Prioritize technology adoption to maximize operational efficiency, customer experience, and competitive advantage.
By leveraging the Hype Cycle insights, businesses can focus on technologies that deliver tangible value in the near term while preparing for longer-term transformational capabilities.
DevSecOps in the 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle: Strategic Insights for Businesses
Gomboc.ai is proud to be recognized in the DevSecOps category of the 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle for Operations and Automation in the Communications Industry - rated ‘Transformational’ and forecasted to reach mainstream adoption in under two years. This recognition underscores the critical role DevSecOps plays in modernizing and securing software development and operations in communications service providers (CSPs) and beyond.
Key Takeaways for DevSecOps Strategy from the Hype Cycle
- Adopt DevSecOps as a Strategic Priority
- DevSecOps is highlighted as one of the capabilities with near-mainstream adoption expected within two years, reflecting its importance in accelerating secure software delivery and operational agility.
- Businesses should embed security practices directly into the development and operations lifecycle, ensuring compliance and reducing vulnerabilities early and continuously.
- DevSecOps is highlighted as one of the capabilities with near-mainstream adoption expected within two years, reflecting its importance in accelerating secure software delivery and operational agility.
- Integrate AI-Augmented Software Engineering
- AI-augmented software engineering (AIASE) is transforming the software development lifecycle by automating routine tasks such as code generation, testing, and security validation.
- Incorporating AI tools within DevSecOps pipelines can enhance code quality, reduce technical debt, and accelerate delivery without compromising security.
- AI-augmented software engineering (AIASE) is transforming the software development lifecycle by automating routine tasks such as code generation, testing, and security validation.
- Focus on Automation and Hyperautomation
- Intelligent automation and hyperautomation are critical to scaling DevSecOps processes, enabling continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and automated security testing.
- Hyperautomation integrates AI, robotic process automation, and analytics to optimize workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve operational efficiency.
- Intelligent automation and hyperautomation are critical to scaling DevSecOps processes, enabling continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and automated security testing.
- Develop a Center of Excellence (CoE)
- Establishing a DevSecOps CoE can provide governance, standardization, and best practices across teams, fostering collaboration between development, security, and operations.
- This centralized oversight supports continuous improvement and alignment with business objectives.
- Establishing a DevSecOps CoE can provide governance, standardization, and best practices across teams, fostering collaboration between development, security, and operations.
- Invest in Skills and Culture Change
- The Hype Cycle emphasizes the need for organizational change, including upskilling teams in AI, security, and cloud-native technologies.
- Cultivating a culture that embraces agile, collaborative, and security-first mindsets is essential for DevSecOps success.
- The Hype Cycle emphasizes the need for organizational change, including upskilling teams in AI, security, and cloud-native technologies.
- Leverage Cloud-Native and Composable Architectures
- Cloud-native telco operations and composable networks are maturing trends that support modular, scalable, and secure software delivery.
- DevSecOps strategies should align with these architectures to enable rapid deployment, flexibility, and integrated security across distributed environments.
- Cloud-native telco operations and composable networks are maturing trends that support modular, scalable, and secure software delivery.
- Prioritize Observability and Monitoring
- Observability platforms provide the transparency needed to detect, diagnose, and respond to security and operational issues in real time.
- Embedding observability into DevSecOps pipelines enhances reliability, security posture, and user experience.
Practical Recommendations for Businesses Embracing DevSecOps
- Start with Quick Wins: Implement AI-driven automation in areas like security testing, code review, and incident response to demonstrate value early.
- Build a Unified Data Strategy: Ensure data quality and accessibility to support AI and automation tools effectively within DevSecOps workflows.
- Adopt Incremental Implementation: Progressively integrate DevSecOps practices, tools, and AI capabilities to manage complexity and build trust.
- Ensure Human Oversight: Maintain human-in-the-loop controls for critical security decisions to balance automation benefits with risk management.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Break down silos between development, security, and operations to foster shared ownership and faster feedback loops.
Measure Business Outcomes: Track metrics such as deployment frequency, change failure rate, security incident reduction, and operational cost savings to justify ongoing investment.
The Path Forward
Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle makes one point unmistakable: DevSecOps has moved from trend to table stakes. By listing Gomboc alongside industry heavyweights such as Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, and Snyk - and hinting that DevSecOps will drop from future cycles once fully mainstream - Gartner signals that deterministic, AI-driven remediation is now a non-negotiable capability.
For CSPs, cloud-native builders, and platform-engineering teams, the mandate is clear: automate security at the code layer today or spend tomorrow firefighting misconfigurations your competitors have already eliminated. Adopting DevSecOps means pairing AI-augmented engineering and hyperautomation with cloud-native architectures and a culture of continuous improvement. Done right, the payoff is tangible - lower risk, optimized costs, and faster, more secure releases that keep you ahead in an increasingly complex, digital landscape.
Gomboc is committed to keeping customers on that leading edge - continuously aligning IaC fixes with policy so you ship faster, safer, and with far less manual toil.
This blog post is based on insights from the Gartner Hype Cycle for Operations and Automation in the Communications Industry, 2025.
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