Key Capabilities / Features

AttackIQ’s AEV platform aligns with the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework, providing a structured, risk-based approach to continuous security assessment and improvement. While CTEM offers organizations a guide for risk management, AttackIQ’s AEV Platform makes it actionable. By simulating real threats with breach and attack simulation and automated penetration testing, AttackIQ’s AEV Platform uncovers exposures, prioritizes risks, and sharpens defenses in a cohesive, continuous process. This integrated approach delivers a data-driven defense against evolving threats.

As the security market consolidates, organizations are looking for integrated solutions that align with CTEM. CTEM itself is a framework, guiding the continuous assessment and prioritization of threats. By contrast, AEV is a category of technologies that combine Breach and Attack Simulation and Automated Pentesting. AEV focuses on validating security controls in real-time by emulating adversary behavior, effectively bridging the gap between knowing about a vulnerability and understanding its true risk.

When these two concepts converge, businesses gain a unified, threat-informed approach — reducing noise, prioritizing critical exposures, and delivering clear use cases like defensive posture optimization, exposure awareness, and scaled offensive testing. Rather than dealing with disjointed point solutions, security teams can continuously validate where they’re most exposed and take action faster

Key Features Include:

- Attack Surface Scanning – Continuously discovers and assesses externally exposed assets, giving security teams real-time visibility into potential entry points.

- Attack Path Management – Maps adversaries’ attack paths to expose vulnerabilities and high-risk areas before they can be exploited.

- Discovery and Threat Intelligence Integration – Enriches exposure findings with real-world threat intelligence, helping teams prioritize risks effectively.

- Exposure Validation and Testing – Automates exposure validation, enabling organizations to measure defensive effectiveness and optimize security investments.

How we are different

- Our core strength is continuously validating and optimizing organizations’ defensive posture through adversary campaign emulations. We leverage both atomic tests — focusing on discrete tactics or techniques— and full attack graphs that replicate realistic, multi-stage adversarial behaviors. Threat-informed testing ensures we’re always aligning with real-world attacker TTPs, making sure defenses are ready for the threats that matter.

- We automate purple teaming by unifying red and blue team efforts in a collaborative, iterative process that steadily identifies exposures and refines security controls. Meanwhile, detection engineering focuses on creating and validating the rules that enable quick, accurate threat identification.

- All of this is made possible by the most scalable and open attack simulation platform, our rich library of authentic attack content, and our deep integrations across organizations’ environments — covering email gateways, firewalls, WAFs, EDRs, SIEMs, and more. By ensuring we plug into every critical security layer, we can deliver more targeted and comprehensive validation, helping teams quickly uncover and remediate gaps, and ultimately strengthen overall defensive posture. This actionable intel is something you won’t find anywhere else. It fuels our ability to scale offensive testing through three primary augmentation uses. First, if your red team uncovers specific threat intelligence artifacts — like indicators of compromise — they can create custom attack scenarios to see if defenses hold. Second, insights from prior engagements can be automatically tested at scale to ensure lessons learned are never lost. Finally, you can leverage red team reports themselves as a source of CTI, feeding back into the discovery and scoping phases for automated testing. Together, these capabilities provide continuous, intelligence-driven offensive security that keeps pace with real-world threat actors.