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Learn how your organization can benefit from adversary simulation.
Adversary simulation, also known as adversary emulation, is the practice of security experts impersonating the actions and behaviors of skilled cyber threat actors to attack an organization’s information technology or operational technology environment. Using real-world attacker breach techniques and a feedback loop from the organization’s security stack, adversary simulation exercises help test and improve cyber resilience against attacks such as ransomware and persistent threats.
Adversary simulation is considered a highly effective way to holistically test an organization’s cyber resilience by assessing its ability to prevent, detect, and respond to real-world threats and attacks in a simulated breach scenario. The simulation results provide security leaders with data points to make more informed decisions on risk and cyber resiliency and to help prioritize budgets based on validated evidence derived from testing the effectiveness of their security controls.
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Adversary simulation empowers organizations to more accurately assess cyber risk and vulnerabilities by impersonating a variety of attacker tools, techniques and procedures across various scenarios and adversary profiles to test the effectiveness of security controls in any given environment.
By integrating into an organization’s security technology stack, adversary simulation can help drive in-depth analyses of successful vs. blocked attacks, provide better visibility into the efficacy of an organization’s defensive controls and security monitoring programs, and help paint a picture for a data-driven risk prioritization and remediation strategy.
Identification of existing gaps in an organization’s security controls and security monitoring program.
Evaluation of an organization’s cyber defenses and to help provide an in-depth strategy for mitigating risk from attacks.
Validate the effectiveness of security programs, tools and specific controls against industry-specific attacker techniques.
Enhancement of security monitoring and detection capabilities.
As organizations grow their digital footprint to support critical business functions, the risk of attacks on digital infrastructure increases proportionately. Adversary simulation allows chief information security officers (CISOs) to pivot from a reactive implementation of defensive controls and security tools – a never-ending game of catch-up – to a more proactive, strategic and data-driven approach to risk prioritization and mitigation. Here’s why an investment in adversary simulation services should be on every CISO’s agenda:
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