
The CISO’s Guide to Purple Teaming
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Deploy the AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform and MITRE ATT&CK framework to sharpen your cybersecurity against real-world adversary threat behaviors.
Conduct a range of attack simulations to test your security team’s capabilities, large scale or small scale, across the security organization or for a specific component of the security team. The platform makes any exercise real by focusing the team against real-world adversary behaviors.
The automated platform helps red teams to be more efficient; they can run automated testing operations at scale and benefit from the rich performance data that scaled automation brings.
Audit teams use AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform to identify their security controls and then determine how best to assess them. The audit team is largely akin to the testing team but it could also be an independent party.
The MSSP can collect the data from the platform about its own performance. The customer can also use that data to decide what they want to do with the MSSP.
The Control Framework would likely include the National Institute of Standards and Technology 800-53 control families, or any sector specific controls that may be required.
Using AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform, the security leader looks at performance data, sets a strategy, and decides whether to invest or divest in specific areas to mitigate a discrepancy.
Using AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform, the architect can automate the testing process; the engineering team can then fill the gaps or, if gaps cannot be filled easily, the architecture team might identify how to fill it.
You can use the platform to reduce your compliance and regulatory burden by mapping your regulatory and compliance controls, conducting continuous tests and mapping the data from those tests to the compliance framework, and training your auditors on how it works.
The security operations team can use the AttackIQ platform to assess all of the security technology sensors within an enterprise, including the event logs, the network security controls, and the SIEM, to ensure that the technology works as it should.
After a security team conducts an incident response, they can take what they learned from the incident and use the Security Optimization Platform to turn what they learned into an event in another part of the network to make sure that the team’s security fixes work across the organization.
AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform can enable the Security Operations Center to anticipate, prepare, and hunt for threats that may affect the enterprise.
The threat informed defender (on the blue or red team) can use AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform to validate a change to make sure that it works as intended and that the security controls are in place.
AttackIQ scans the code before it is released, enforcing a key protection, a credential pass, or any other security control specified in the code.
AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform can be used to test your analysts against specific certification requirements to ensure that they know what to do with their security controls and how to perform through exercises.
AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform can be used to teach a machine to catch attacker behaviors, sharpening the behavior of machine learning or an artificial intelligence tool.
AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform can be used by the security technology team – whether it’s the chief technology officer, the CISO, or the information technology team — to assess competing security technologies and determine which one meets the company’s enduring requirements.
You can use the platform to assess the capabilities of Managed Security Service Providers in the pre-sales stage. If you are about to enter into a contract with an MSSP, you can use AttackIQ to validate that an MSSP works as intended either in the proof concept phase.
You can use the platform to assess the capabilities of Managed Security Service Providers in the pre-sales stage. If you are about to enter into a contract with an MSSP, you can use AttackIQ to validate that an MSSP works as intended either in the proof concept phase.
AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform can be used to assess the capabilities of COTS capabilities vs. open-source capabilities.
The Security Optimization Platform can be used by the security team to assess the functioning of its security controls and rationalize their use on the basis of their overall effectiveness and the organization’s security posture requirements.
By deploying the Security Optimization Platform and testing your capabilities, you understand if perfect is perfect, or good enough is good enough, or whether you want to build your own capabilities to fill specific gaps.
Security architects can use the platform to define and validate security requirements for third-party technology projects that they need to bring into the organization.
In development, security vendors can use AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform to validate that their own capabilities will detect and alarm as required.
The Security Optimization Platform performs as an overwatch capability with analysts looking at it during a proof of concept.
Security vendors use the Security Optimization Platform internally for their sales teams to make sure that the capabilities perform effectively for customers and to drive accountability within the organization.
Companies use the Security Optimization Platform to test the cybersecurity controls of on-boarding companies during mergers and acquisitions to determine the level of risk and identify areas of improvement in advance of the deal finalizing.
Insurance companies can underwrite a cybersecurity insurance policy based on certain constraints; the insurer company can use the Security Optimization Platform to demonstrate to the insurer that the company can exercise against the attacker and mitigate risk.
Automation that exercises your people, processes, and technologies. A continuous feedback loop of meaningful metrics that help you shape your security strategy.
Blueprints are step-by-step guides to align people, process, and technology to deliver optimization across the security organization. AttackIQ builds bespoke, tailored blueprints for each customer on the basis of their specific security goals and requirements. The below phases outline specific steps customers can take along their security optimization journey. AttackIQ would tailor the approach to each customer uniquely.
Gain immediate value from the AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform. Deploy technical Solutions into the parts of your organization that are best equipped to run adversary emulations against your security program.
Builds on the establishment and maturation of the previous phase. Focuses on threat-driven capabilities, develops granular performance data, and improves your organization’s security and technology governance processes.
Significant security optimization maturation. Exercise your organization against known threats continuously. Map real performance data to requirements. Operate under a threat-informed defense strategy.
Maximize the efficiency and productivity of your total security program (people, process, and technology) by ensuring that existing security investments are measured, monitored, and modified continuously. Using granular performance data to brief your leadership and make sound investment decisions.
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