Every step of the chain
Individual techniques will chain into multi-step scenarios. Each step will be recorded as blocked, detected or undetected, along with how far the chain got.
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Put your security controls
to the test.
Evaluate prevention and detection with controlled attack scenarios. Align security and operations teams around what was tested, what the controls observed and what needs attention.
Scoped validation exercise
Authorised scenario
Control under review
Observed behaviour
Investigation context
01 / Agree scenario
Scope the exercise before execution.
- Scenario objective
- Authorised scope
Discuss the validation scenario and the boundaries of an evaluation.
02 / Observe controls
Compare the expected and observed response.
- Expected behaviour
- Observation
Evaluate the intended evidence for the control being tested.
03 / Review gaps
Turn the exercise into a useful follow-up.
- Control owner
- Follow-up criteria
Agree how validation results would inform security improvements.
ATT&CK
Mapped techniques
From initial access to exfiltration.
Chains
Multi-step scenarios
See the step where an attack stops.
Controls
Effectiveness scoring
Blocked, detected or undetected.
Safe
Fail-closed guardrails
Scope, approval, cleanup, egress.
The category
What is breach and attack simulation?
Security stacks degrade silently. An endpoint agent is disabled on a new image, a log pipeline drops a source, a cloud role gains a permission it should not have. BAS replaces assumption with measurement: it runs known attacker techniques, safely and reversibly, and records what each control did about them. Run continuously, it turns questions such as "would we notice lateral movement from this host?" into an answer with evidence, and shows which control gaps matter most.
Authorised scope
Agree the target environment and permitted activity.
Controlled exercise
Define the technique and execution safeguards.
Defence review
Compare the expected response with the evidence collected.
Designed workflow: an exercise needs explicit scope before execution.
Safety first
How will SecurityVault keep simulations safe?
An attack simulation is only useful if it can run in production without becoming the incident. Every guardrail is designed to fail closed: if any one is missing, the campaign will not start.
Scope
Every campaign will name concrete targets. A campaign without a defined scope will be refused.
Approval
A production campaign will require a recorded approval from a named person before it runs.
Cleanup
Every technique will declare how its effects are reversed, and a dry-run mode will show what would happen without executing anything.
Egress
Outbound traffic will be checked against an allowlist that denies everything by default in production.
The design
What will each campaign measure?
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Every control's record
Each security control will be scored and graded on how it handled the techniques it faced, with the gaps where techniques went undetected named explicitly.
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Your ATT&CK coverage
Results will map to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, showing what is covered, what is weak and what remains untested.
Correlation
Why test controls against the exposure graph?
A simulation result means most next to the exposure it tests. SecurityVault is designed to connect simulation outcomes to the graph that already links code, artefacts, cloud and identity, so a theoretical attack path and a tested one sit side by side.
Workloads
A container-escape technique tested against a workload will tell you whether the image's known weaknesses are contained by the Kubernetes controls around it.
Identity
Simulated role assumption will test whether the identity paths on your graph are monitored, not only whether they exist.
Outcomes
Undetected techniques will become findings routed to an owner with a remediation deadline, and validation reports will feed continuous compliance evidence for controls that ask for security testing.
FAQ
Attack simulation questions.
- What is the difference between BAS and penetration testing?
- A penetration test is a skilled, time-boxed exercise that finds what a human attacker could do. Breach and attack simulation runs scoped, repeatable techniques on a schedule to check that your controls still block or detect them. A penetration test finds the novel gap; BAS catches the control that quietly stopped working.
- Is it safe to run attack simulations?
- The planned safeguards aim to reduce operational risk; no simulation is risk-free. Validate the scope and recovery process in a test environment before considering production. Every campaign will need a concrete scope, every technique will declare how it is cleaned up, outbound traffic will be checked against an allowlist that denies everything by default in production, and a production campaign will require a recorded human approval. Any missing field will block the run.
- Which attack techniques will BAS simulate?
- Techniques will be organised by MITRE ATT&CK tactic: initial access, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, defence evasion, lateral movement and exfiltration, including cloud-specific techniques such as role assumption and storage exfiltration.
- How does BAS relate to attack paths?
- Attack paths show what an attacker could chain together on paper. BAS is designed to test whether your controls actually stop that chain, step by step, and to record the step at which it was blocked. Read how cloud attack paths chain posture, workload and identity.
- When will breach and attack simulation be available?
- Breach and attack simulation is in development. Discuss the simulation scenarios and authorised environments you would need for a future evaluation.
Available today: threat modeling · attack surface management · Kubernetes security. Related offerings: detection and response. Built for SOC and incident response teams and CISOs.
Discuss your requirements
Tell us which controls you need to prove.
Define the attack scenarios, authorised environments and validation boundaries you want to assess.