The word of Gartner is often used as the gospel, but when it comes to IT, everyone needs to know their limitations. With over 15,000 employees and nearly $3B in annual revenue, it is a force to be reckoned with. The Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management was released on December 4, 2017 and within days, McAfee and Rapid7 were touting their inclusion in the report. Yet the inherent Achilles’ heel of the MQ is that it is based too much on schmoozing and trust, and not empirical real-world testing.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3252216/understanding-gartner-and-its-limitations.html