AttackIQ Platform
Continuously Validate Exposures.
The only Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) platform built to eliminate critical risk and operationalize CTEM at enterprise scale.
What is Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)?
Beyond Traditional BAS
Adversarial Exposure Validation turns breach and attack simulation into an always-on validation engine. Using safe, production-ready scenarios mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, continuously tests your defenses to expose what attackers could exploit—before they do.
Beyond Point-in-Time Testing
Vulnerability scanners and penetration tests offer snapshots. AEV delivers real-time insight through persistent validation that maps attack paths, verifies controls, and prioritizes exposures that matter most to your business.
Beyond Reactive Security
AEV powers Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), transforming your security from reactive threat response to proactive prevention that builds resilience.
Exposure Validation Without Compromise
Continuously test what matters, when it matters using adversary-aligned, risk-informed validation across every control and every vector.
Find Exposures First
Discover attack paths and control failures before adversaries do through continuous, automated testing.
Fix Risks Strategically
Cut through the noise to prioritize threats that are both exploitable and impactful to your operations.
Fortify Controls Continuously
Strengthen your defenses with automated retesting that proves what works and improves what doesn’t.
Designed for Real-World Adversaries
See how adversaries move, what they can exploit, and whether your defenses can stop them—so you’re prepared for whatever’s next.
Exposure by Terrain
Map your exposure across operational environments—not just control frameworks. AttackIQ provides granular visibility across On-Premises, Cloud, Hybrid, and Remote Workforce environments to pinpoint your highest-risk terrain. Go beyond aggregate scores to see exactly where vulnerabilities concentrate and focus security investments where they’ll have the greatest impact.
Learn MoreCyber Threat Intelligence
Transform static threat feeds into actionable insights. AttackIQ integrates with leading CTI providers to correlate real-world adversary behaviors with your environment, enabling targeted validation, faster response, and improved readiness against the threats most likely to impact your organization.
Vulnerability Data
Centralize and operationalize vulnerability insights from across your ecosystem. AttackIQ ingests data from leading vulnerability management platforms to correlate known weaknesses with adversary behaviors, enabling contextual validation and smarter prioritization based on real-world exploitability.
SIEM+
Validate your entire detection pipeline with seamless AttackIQ integration. Ensure adversary techniques trigger the right alerts, populate key fields, and support effective threat hunting, delivering end-to-end visibility from simulation to analysis.
Learn MoreEDR
Prove your endpoint defenses work as intended. AttackIQ integrates with leading EDR platforms to safely test prevention, detection, and response against real attacker TTPs without disrupting users or production systems.
Learn MoreNGFW
Put your firewall rules and segmentation policies to the test. AttackIQ emulates adversary behaviors like lateral movement, command-and-control, and exfiltration to continuously validate NGFW configurations and uncover policy gaps before attackers do.
Learn MoreCloud
Test your cloud defenses across major cloud environments without deploying agents or installations. Validate identity controls, workload protections, and misconfiguration detection against cloud-native threats and realistic attack paths.
Learn MoreCustomer Controls
Offering APIs such as:
Security Control Validation
Active Threat Monitoring
Attack Path Management
Attack Surface Management
Vulnerability Prioritization
Risk Scoring
Security Control Validation
Continuously validate whether your existing security controls—EDR, firewalls, email security, etc.—block or detect real adversary behaviors, ensuring that investments truly work as intended.
Learn MoreActive Threat Monitoring
Monitor emerging threats in real time. As new TTPs arise, emulate them to see if your security stack can prevent, detect, or log the suspicious activity.
Learn MoreAttack Path Management
Dynamically discover and visualize how attackers could chain vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to move laterally. Identify choke points in those attack paths to remediate the biggest risks first.
Learn MoreAttack Surface Management
Identify both agented and agentless assets, including cloud workloads, on-prem endpoints, and shadow IT, so you can see coverage gaps and target them with real adversary tests.
Learn MoreVulnerability Prioritization
Prioritize vulnerabilities based on actual adversary exploitability—rather than raw CVSS scores—so you know which issues matter most for preventing an active breach scenario.
Learn MoreRisk Scoring
Get an aggregate score of your organization’s resilience, factoring in vulnerabilities, control coverage, and actual test outcomes. Track it over time to show how your exposure level is trending.
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Scale Offensive Testing
Scale Offensive Testing with AttackIQ’s automated adversary emulations and comprehensive scenario library. Red teams can multiply their impact across thousands of endpoints, continuously exercising real-world threats to test prevention and detection controls at scale—all mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Manage Exposure
Reduce Exposure by going beyond simple vulnerability scanning. AttackIQ’s approach merges vulnerability data, threat intelligence, and adversary emulation to pinpoint which exposures are most critical to fix first—so you close real attack paths before adversaries exploit them.
Optimize Defensive Posture
Optimize Defensive Posture by aligning your people, processes, and technologies around demonstrable security outcomes. Use AttackIQ’s recommended mitigations to strengthen detection logic, ensure security tools are configured properly, and reduce mean time to remediation.
Enhance Detection Engineering
Transform detection engineering from reactive rule adjustments to proactive validation. AttackIQ empowers detection teams to continuously test their logic against real adversary techniques across SIEM, EDR, and XDR environments. Deploy production-safe simulations to verify detection triggers, optimize MITRE ATT&CK coverage gaps, and eliminate false positives before real threats exploit blind spots.
Command Center
Command Center is your unified control plane for orchestrating, managing, and measuring all your testing efforts and exposure insights. It is the hub through which AttackIQ brings together threat intelligence, vulnerability data, and security control validation information.
Learn MoreFlex
AttackIQ’s agentless, on-demand testing platform. Ideal for environments where you need a quick, lightweight way to assess controls.
Learn MoreReady
Optimize Defensive Posture by aligning your people, processes, and technologies around demonstrable security outcomes. Use AttackIQ’s recommended mitigations to strengthen detection logic, ensure security tools are configured properly, and reduce mean time to remediation.Ready! offers streamlined, prescriptive validation for teams that want to unlock the power of AttackIQ and don’t need advanced capabilities – making it easier to validate your controls and quickly show measurable security improvements.
Learn MoreEnterprise
Enterprise is our flagship adversary emulation solution, giving security teams full control over automated, continuous testing across diverse environments. It uses our persistent agent model and integrates deeply with your existing security stack to deliver robust validation of prevention and detection controls at scale.
Learn MoreAdversary Exposure Validation (Aligned with MITRE ATT&CK)
Adversary Exposure Validation goes beyond standard Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS). It merges threat intelligence, vulnerability data, attack surface management and continuous testing to give you real-time clarity on which critical adversary behaviors would bypass controls and succeed in your environment—and how to fix the issues before attackers can exploit them.
Learn MoreAVA (AI)
AVA is AttackIQ’s AI-based assistant that helps you create and tailor adversary scenarios, interpret threat intelligence data, and provide automated recommendations on what to test next. AVA also speeds up remediation by suggesting precise detection-rule validations and mitigations.
From Exposure Discovery to Operational Resilience
AEV is the operational core of your CTEM program, enabling continuous discovery, validation, prioritization, and remediation.
Prove Your Defenses Work Against Real Threats
Built for Security Leaders.
AttackIQ is the only unified platform that delivers comprehensive adversarial exposure validation across your entire security ecosystem.
Real Results. Real ROI.
Measurable security improvements that translate directly to your bottom line.
Complete Adversarial Exposure Validation Suite
Flex
Agentless Exposure Validation
Ready
Managed Continuous Exposure Validation
Enterprise
Advanced Exposure Management at Scale
Command Center
Centralized Exposure Governance
Ideal for:
Enterprises or MSSPs managing exposure across multiple business units or clients
Learn MoreAdversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) FAQs
Understanding AEV
While BAS platforms simulate common attack scenarios, AEV goes further—delivering persistent, adversary-aligned testing that operationalizes the entire exposure lifecycle, from discovery through remediation.
AEV transforms threat intelligence into action by aligning testing to current adversary tactics. With curated scenarios and deep MITRE ATT&CK integration, it ensures defenses are validated against the threats that matter most.
Yes. AttackIQ is a founding research partner of the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense and helped pioneer the operational use of the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
AEV operationalizes CTEM by unifying discovery, validation, prioritization, and remediation in one platform—delivering continuous insight and measurable progress across all five CTEM phases.
Platform Capabilities & Security
AttackIQ integrates with over 100 leading security tools across SIEM, EDR, SOAR, XDR, and more—allowing you to validate your existing stack, automate workflows, and visualize gaps across your security ecosystem.
The platform is continuously updated with the latest tactics and techniques drawn from threat intelligence and our adversary research team—ensuring you’re testing against real-world threats, not outdated assumptions.
Business Value & ROI
Organizations using AttackIQ have reported measurable gains including breach cost reductions, SOC efficiency improvements, tool consolidation savings, and increased analyst productivity—all supported by platform metrics.
Deployment & Use Cases
Security operations, red and blue teams, CISOs, and risk managers all use AEV to validate defenses, reduce risk, and improve communication across stakeholders.
AEV supports three primary strategic use cases: Optimize Defense, Prioritize and Reduce Exposures, and Scale Offensive Testing.
Example applications include:
- Validating SIEM, EDR, and XDR detection and response
- Benchmarking SOC readiness with simulated adversary behavior
- Prioritizing exploitable vulnerabilities based on real-world risk
- Breaking attack paths across hybrid and cloud environments
- Testing third-party and remote team readiness
- Supporting compliance with frameworks like NIST, PCI, and DORA
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Read MoreWhile Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) performs periodic, isolated tests of security controls, Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) provides continuous, automated validation across full attack paths. AEV integrates with remediation workflows and aligns strategically with CTEM frameworks, making it ideal for enterprise-scale operations.