We don't simulate attackers in the abstract. We replicate named threat actors using their authentic tradecraft — APT29's stealth, Lazarus's persistence, FIN7's discipline. Test your defenses against the real thing.
For every named threat actor we maintain — APT29, Lazarus, Conti, Scattered Spider, Volt Typhoon, and 23 others — we replicate their authentic TTPs end-to-end. The same initial access vectors, the same C2 infrastructure patterns, the same lateral movement habits, the same exfiltration timing.
Your SOC isn't tested against a generic attacker. They're tested against the specific adversary most likely to come for your industry, using techniques drawn directly from confirmed incidents.
Generic pen tests measure generic exposure. But your real threat is specific: ransomware affiliates if you're in healthcare, state actors if you're in defense, financially-motivated crews if you're in fintech.
Adversary emulation tells you whether your detection content catches your actual adversaries — not whether it catches Nmap. The answer to "would we have seen this?" is the question that matters.
Every emulated actor maps to specific ATT&CK techniques. 14 tactics, 600+ techniques, fully traceable in your detection content.
Nation-state, e-crime, hacktivist, and insider threat profiles — each maintained with confirmed-incident provenance and TTP fidelity scoring.
Run as either blind (red) or collaborative (purple) — defenders watch our attacks in real time, refine detections, and re-run for measurable improvement.
Every campaign produces Sigma rules, Splunk SPL, Sentinel KQL, and Elastic queries — tested against your environment before delivery.
You choose which threat actor to emulate, or we recommend based on your industry threat profile. We brief the operator team on TTPs, infrastructure habits, and confirmed-incident behavior.
Operators run the actor's full kill chain end-to-end. Initial access, foothold, escalation, lateral movement, objective — each step performed using the actor's actual tradecraft.
For every technique we used, we measure whether you saw it, when you saw it, and what alerted (or didn't). Detection coverage scored against the actor's full kill chain.
After your team deploys new detection content, we re-run the same campaign and measure improvement. Same actor, same TTPs, different defense posture. Provable ROI.
# APT29 — Cozy Bear · MITRE G0016 actor: apt29 aliases: [cozy_bear, nobelium, midnight_blizzard] sponsor: SVR # Russian Foreign Intel tradecraft: initial_access: - T1566.001 # spearphishing attachment - T1199 # trusted relationship (supply chain) - T1078.004 # valid cloud accounts persistence: - T1098.001 # cloud account modification - T1556.006 # MFA registration manipulation defense_evasion: - T1550.001 # application access tokens - T1078.004 # valid cloud accounts - T1027 # obfuscated files/info infrastructure: c2: [azure_blob, microsoft_graph, teamsapi] staging: legitimate_cloud_providers avoid: [direct_inbound, tor_exits]
Plain-language summary of the campaign, your detection posture against the chosen actor, and how it compares to industry peers.
Every TTP we executed, every detection (or non-detection), every artifact. Engineering-ready, MITRE-mapped, fully reproducible.
For every gap, ready-to-deploy detection content tested against your environment. Vendor-specific, false-positive validated.
Pick one threat actor most relevant to your industry. Three-week campaign emulating their full kill chain. Detection scorecard delivered.
We profile your industry threat landscape, select 3–4 most-likely actors, and emulate each in sequence. Full purple-team collaboration optional.
Quarterly campaigns against rotating actors. Detection content updated continuously. Quarterly board briefings on adversary readiness.
Threat-modeling sessions begin under NDA. Briefing delivered within 72 hours.
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