Continuous Security Validation Service
Subscription-based ongoing testing of your security controls, detection capabilities, and response procedures against real-world attack techniques. Our continuous validation approach provides evidence-based assessment of security effectiveness beyond traditional point-in-time assessments, ensuring your defenses work as expected against evolving threats.
In scope
- Automated security control testing
- MITRE ATT&CK-based scenarios
- Detection capability validation
- Prevention control validation
- Response procedure testing
- Purple team exercises
- Evasion technique testing
- Security tool configuration validation
- Lateral movement simulation
- Data exfiltration testing
You receive
- Monthly validation reports
- Control effectiveness metrics
- Detection gap analysis
- Prevention bypass findings
- Security improvement recommendations
- MITRE technique coverage mapping
- Response time analytics
- Executive dashboards
- Security ROI validation
- Continuous improvement roadmap
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential Security Validation
$8.5K / mo
Monthly test cycle: up to 10 MITRE ATT&CK-based scenarios per cycle run from up to 5 test hosts against core prevention and detection controls (endpoint, email, network). Monthly report with detection gaps and 1 purple team session per year.
- Objectives
- 10
- internal hosts
- 5
- sessions
- 1
- 1 test cycle per month
- Up to 10 ATT&CK scenarios per cycle
- Prevention and detection control validation
- Monthly report and technique coverage map
- 1 purple team session per year
- — Lateral movement and data exfiltration simulation
- — Evasion technique testing
- — Custom scenarios
- — Detection rule writing in the client's SIEM
Advanced Security Validation Program
$15K / mo
Bi-weekly test cycles: up to 25 scenarios per cycle from up to 15 test hosts. Adds lateral movement, exfiltration and evasion testing, security tool configuration validation, response-time analytics and 4 purple team sessions per year.
- Objectives
- 25
- internal hosts
- 15
- sessions
- 4
- 2 test cycles per month
- Up to 25 scenarios per cycle
- Lateral movement, exfiltration and evasion tests
- Security tool configuration validation
- Response-time analytics
- 4 purple team sessions per year
- — Custom scenarios built for the client's threat profile
- — Full kill-chain simulations
- — Named dedicated engineers
- — Detection rule writing in the client's SIEM
Enterprise Continuous Validation
$25K / mo
Continuous testing with no fixed scenario cap, from up to 50 test hosts. Adds custom scenarios built to the client's threat profile, full kill-chain simulations, named security engineers, monthly purple team sessions and executive dashboards.
- internal hosts
- 50
- sessions
- 12
- Continuous testing, no fixed scenario cap
- Custom threat-profile scenarios
- Full kill-chain simulations
- Named security engineers
- 12 purple team sessions per year
- Executive dashboards
- — Full-scope red team engagement with physical or social engineering
- — Licences for the client's own security tools
- — 24/7 monitoring or incident response
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a red team & adversary emulation engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Objectives & rules of engagement
Crown-jewel objectives and the threat actor to emulate are agreed with an executive sponsor; the blue team usually isn't told.
You see · A sponsor, objectives and a stop-work channel.
02Threat-informed planning
Scenarios built from the TTPs of adversaries relevant to your sector, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
You see · Sign-off on the scenario plan.
03Initial access
Phishing, exposed services or physical entry, whichever the scenario calls for.
You see · Nothing; this is where detection is tested.
04Objective pursuit
Persistence, privilege escalation and lateral movement toward the objective, with evasion appropriate to the scenario.
You see · Escalation if anything unsafe or critical is found.
05Detection & response measurement
Every action is time-stamped so it can be compared with what your SOC saw and did.
You see · A detection and response timeline.
06Replay & improvement plan
A joint replay with the defensive team, then prioritized improvements for prevention, detection and response.
You see · The narrative, the timeline and the plan.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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