
Penetration Testing & Attack Simulation
AttackIQ
Adversarial exposure validation for continuous MITRE ATT&CK control testing and CTEM.
AttackIQ Overview
What it does
AttackIQ is an Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) platform that continuously emulates real-world adversary behavior to test whether deployed security controls detect and prevent attacks, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The platform operationalizes a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program, automating the discovery, prioritization, and validation of exploitable exposures across people, processes, and technology rather than running periodic, point-in-time assessments. AttackIQ pioneered the Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) category in 2014 and has since extended it from isolated control tests to continuous, full-attack-path validation across cloud, identity, and infrastructure.
How it works
The platform is delivered through three products: AttackIQ Flex, an agentless, pay-as-you-go test-as-a-service offering; AttackIQ Ready!, a fully managed service running weekly and monthly automated validation; and AttackIQ Enterprise, a co-managed deployment with customizable scenarios and expert guidance. AVA, the platform's scenario assistant, creates and tailors adversary scenarios, interprets threat intelligence, generates remediation recommendations, and validates detection rules. Always-on automated testing removes point-in-time blind spots by continuously verifying threats, controls, and attack paths without production disruption, and validates security posture against NIST 800-53, CMMC, PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, DORA, and cyber insurance requirements. AttackIQ is available through AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace.
Credentials and traction
AttackIQ is a founding research partner of the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense and contributes to MITRE Engenuity research and the open Preactive Security Exchange. Its customer base spans four of the Fortune 20, a top-10 US bank by assets, three of the six US military branches, and government agencies including CISA, alongside global enterprises such as Shell, BP, Moody's, USAA, and Qatar Airways. The company also operates the free AttackIQ Academy, a threat-informed defense training program with more than 80,000 enrolled students across 180+ countries.
Key Capabilities
mapped to solution categoriesProvides specific detection rule recommendations, log source requirements, and control configuration changes for each identified gap: not just a list of undetected techniques.
A scenario authoring workbench where advanced users build and chain custom validation tests, defining attack actions, success criteria, and cleanup steps. Lets red and blue teams create exercises beyond the vendor's prebuilt library.
Executes simulations using non-destructive payloads and read-only techniques that cannot cause data loss, service disruption, or lateral damage in production environments.
Runs attack technique sequences on a scheduled or continuous basis against production controls, surfacing control drift between point-in-time assessments without human intervention.
Maps executed attack techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and reports coverage across the attack lifecycle, enabling threat-informed gap analysis and detection engineering.
Executes cloud-specific attack techniques including IAM privilege escalation, SSRF to metadata services, storage bucket enumeration, and cross-account role assumption to surface cloud exploit paths.
Reports which executed techniques triggered alerts in existing security controls and which did not, mapping undetected techniques to the specific control or detection rule that should have fired.
Provides a continuously updated, vendor-supplied library of pre-built attack scenarios and techniques spanning the full kill chain, runnable at scale with little to no offensive expertise required.
Pulls current threat intelligence from native feeds or third-party integrations to build and run validations against newly disclosed threats, letting teams confirm whether defenses block an emerging campaign or CVE shortly after it is published.
Trends control efficacy and validated exposure across runs and baselines results against industry peers, giving executives and asset owners scorecards that show whether security posture is improving rather than a one-time list of findings.
Integrations
compatible toolsImplementation & support
Info last updated on June 11, 2026
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