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AEV: The Next Evolution of BAS

Breach and Attack Simulation proved that testing works—but today’s threats demand more than periodic validation. Adversarial Exposure Validation delivers continuous, comprehensive and targeted testing and transforms how security teams achieve and maintain defense readiness.

Validate Continuously

Catch failures fast with always-on, automated testing that eliminates point-in-time blind spots.

Validate Everything

Verify threats, controls, and attack paths across cloud, identity, and infrastructure—in one unified platform.

Validate Everywhere

Evaluate defenses across endpoints, hybrid environments, and third parties at scale and without disruption.

Validate What Matters

Prioritize exploitable exposures that impact your business and prove which defenses actually work.

Introducing The AttackIQ Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) Platform

The AttackIQ AEV platform goes beyond traditional exposure management by continuously validating security controls and simulating real-world scenarios.

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Proactively Manage Threat Exposure with CTEM + AEV

AEV puts CTEM into action—helping you uncover control failures, reduce exposure, and close security gaps before attackers can exploit them. The result is stronger defenses, lower risk, and improved operational performance.

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Align Security With Business Priorities

Effective exposure management starts with defining critical assets and aligning test boundaries with business goals. AttackIQ’s adaptive methodology targets high-priority areas and quickly adjusts to emerging threats, keeping your strategy focused and agile.
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Smarter Security, Proven Results

Gain unparalleled visibility, efficiency, and control for unmatched protection,
cost savings, and peace of mind.

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Be Ready for Every Threat,
Every Time

Achieve continuous resilience through a proactive, threat-informed defense.

Optimize Defensive Posture

Battle-test controls against real-world threats—automated, continuous, and production-safe. Get precise insights into where defenses fail and how to fix them.

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Reduce
Exposure

Focus on what’s exploitable, not just visible. Prioritize exposures with threat-informed validation and close critical gaps attackers are most likely to target.

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Scale Offensive Testing

Automate adversary emulation across your environment without red team delays or scripting. Test continuously to prove your defenses work when they need to.

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Enhance Detection Engineering

Tune detection rules with real attack flows and AI-driven insights to reduce false positives, improve signal fidelity, and strengthen SOC response.

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10 Strategic Priorities for Security Leaders in 2026

AI acceleration and industrialized cybercrime are changing the threat landscape. Learn what security leaders must operationalize now to build resilience in 2026.

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Real Impact for Real-World
Security Challenges

From Fortune 500 companies to mid-sized enterprises, organizations across industries trust us to keep them resilient.

  • Facility Management Services

    “We might see, hypothetically, that we’re good on protecting against ‘initial foothold’ with a particular type of malware, but we are not doing well in protecting data on a certain type of device from being exfiltrated. We can use that information to understand what we need to change. Maybe we see that we are preventing the first five steps of the attack, so it’s unlikely that an attacker will get to the sixth step, where we might have a gap. Using the MITRE framework to break down attacks like this helps us decide where to invest additional resources.”
    Global Information Security Manager
    ISS World Services A/S, One of the World’s Leading Facilities Management Providers, Finds Efficient Road to Security Visibility

  • Retail

    “One of our goals is to run standard tests across all the environments and regions we operate in. We want to know that all our stores have the same security, regardless of where they’re located. “Because testing in the Security Optimization Platform is programmatic, the tests are done in the same way on every system in every country, on every continent. If I run the test today, next week, and then again four years from now, the results will be comparable, apples to apples, unless we have purposely changed something. The Security Optimization Platform doesn’t just enable us to execute at scale; it also enables us to execute consistently at scale, which is something we couldn’t do without underlying technology.”
    Director of Security Operations
    Building Confidence in Security Effectiveness Across a Fortune 500 Retailer’s Complex Global Infrastructure
  • “One of the attack flows that we are frequently asked to simulate is the full ransomware attack vector. We need to see whether ransomware is likely to get into the network via an email or web download. But we also need to see, if ransomware does get in, whether it can move laterally within the network. We run a series of simulations in AttackIQ, and when we sum the results of these separate assessments, we have the full attack vector.”
    Co-founder and CEO
    Case Study: ESED

  • Biosciences

    “AttackIQ was really the best of breed. There was no question that it was the right choice for us after leveraging the free resources through the Academy. AttackIQ is invested in the community and expanding the knowledge to cybersecurity professionals. There’s much value and integrity in that. I look forward to this in partnerships. We leverage AttackIQ Academy as an onboarding process for new hires. Both current analysts have gone through every training module and certification. It’s a great training resource. Finding a solution like AttackIQ, where we can train our existing staff and augment the need for full-time red team practitioners on board, is huge.”
    Director of IT Security
    Leading Biosciences Company Demonstrates Security Control Effectiveness and Reduces Insurance Premiums Using AttackIQ

  • Insurance

    “They might think they’ve successfully closed a control gap. We can prove whether that’s true; we don’t have to take their word for it. Without AttackIQ, it would be possible for my team to do that, but it would be extremely time-consuming. They would have to reach out to the end user support team, get a machine on the network in question, then run the attack and see whether it succeeds. With Attack IQ, we just push a button to re-run the test that revealed the problem in the first place.”
    Director of Information Security
    Major General Insurer Boosts Cybersecurity Readiness Across a Broad and Diverse Infrastructure

  • Banking

    5 Star Review Overall experience with the product is great! The product has provided so much insight into our systems and has allowed improvement of overall security posture. Product can be in the high end in terms of pricing but it is money well spent! Regular updates of the attack library and the ability to customize it to your needs. Very simple to use.
    Information Security Specialist
    Gartner Peer Insights

  • Fortune 50 Retailer

    Now, we can automatically test something and get feedback within the AttackIQ. Nobody needs to check for alerts manually. We brought automated testing to different teams, like for our blue and networking teams, for networking segmentation.

    Lead Information Security Analyst, Offensive Security Group
    A Fortune 50 Retailer Relies on AttackIQ for Automated Security Control Validation Against Real World Threats

  • Retail

    “We can produce a realistic attack, validate where controls are successful at detecting or preventing it, identify places where controls aren’t working, make sure the SOC and other teams are responding appropriately, and then make improvements where the tests indicate they’re needed. Bringing all those activities together into the same process is, in my opinion, the definition of Tier 1 purple teaming. I think we should focus more on being a purple team than either red or blue, and AttackIQ has been solving that problem for us from the outset.”

    Director of Security Operations
    Building Confidence in Security Effectiveness Across a Fortune 500 Retailer’s Complex Global Infrastructure

  • Banking

    The journey we started was great because the AttackIQ staff were there to help us adopt the product as easily as possible. Definitely consider the use of AttackIQ, the insights and regular reporting it will provide will only benefit your organization.

    Information Security Specialist
    Gartner Peer Insights

  • Defense, Transportation

    “AttackIQ is very good about keeping up-to-date as new exploits emerge. That is an important benefit of the platform: The scenarios are always being updated, and new scenarios are created very quickly anytime the external environment changes. Then we run scenarios that simulate the zero-day incident. We run those scenarios against our tools to see whether an attack might affect our environment or our customers. AttackIQ makes it easy to run these different kinds of tests, with a wide variety of scopes, to see how our other security tools handle the threats that we may be facing.”

    Senior Information Security Analyst and Security Tester
    U.S. Defense Contractor Harnesses AttackIQ to Improve Customers’ Operational Readiness

  • Fortune 50 Retailer

    “For the longest time, we didn’t have a purple team. It wasn’t until we got more into AttackIQ that I went to my manager and suggested the purple team approach. Since adopting the purple team approach, we have had a good cadence with the blue team, where we meet and share reports from the AttackIQ dashboard. We are way more engrained than we used to be before we had AttackIQ.”

    Lead Information Security Analyst, Offensive Security Group
    A Fortune 50 Retailer Relies on AttackIQ for Automated Security Control Validation Against Real World Threats

  • “One service option we offer is annual, quarterly, or monthly testing of the attack vectors that a customer is most concerned about. Such routine assessments would have been very difficult to offer in a manual pen testing environment. The AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform enables us to do more testing in less time and with fewer people. It is a win-win situation.”

    Co-founder and CEO
    Case Study: ESED

Never Settle for Uncertainty

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Take the guesswork out of threat exposure management. Validate your defenses with real-world attack scenarios and focus on what matters most—managing your risk.

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