What is Defense Validation?
Defense Validation is a proactive, expert-driven process to confirm the operational effectiveness of security controls and architecture. Rather than hoping defenses work, validators actively test and review logging, configurations, and response plans to ensure proper alignment, identify gaps, and fortify the environment against known adversary tactics.
How We Validate Your Defenses
We validate whether your organization can survive modern cyber threats by evaluating your defenses across the complete attack lifecycle: can you anticipate threats, withstand active attacks, recover operations, and evolve your defenses?
Through evidence-based analysis, we assess your security capabilities against real-world threat scenarios, including ransomware attacks, data breaches, business disruption, insider threats, supply chain compromise, application exploitation, and exposure of the external attack surface. You get a clear, actionable answer: here's what happens to your business when you get attacked.
A specialized review focused on understanding and minimizing the pathways an adversary can use to enter or compromise your environment. Our assessment identifies and prioritizes unnecessary exposures that significantly increase your organizational risk.
We focus on engineering your logging infrastructure to ensure accurate, timely, and efficient event capturing across all critical systems, including your SIEM. This work verifies that your data pipeline provides the necessary forensic evidence and detection coverage for both proactive threat hunting and rapid reactive investigations. The outcome is a log architecture that turns noisy data into a reliable, high-fidelity source of security intelligence.
We conduct an expert-driven review of your entire security architecture, covering both traditional on-premises tools and modern cloud security solutions like firewalls, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). This process ensures that every policy, rule, and setting is correctly configured, tightly aligned with your risk tolerance, and optimized for current threats.
Using real-world adversary techniques mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, we validate whether your controls detect, alert, and respond as expected. We test across endpoints, network traffic, and cloud environments. We seek to prove what works and exposing what doesn't.
Why Defense Validation Matters
Proof, Not Assumptions
Stop hoping your controls work. We deliver evidence-based validation with logical rationale on detection improvements, response effectiveness, and configuration gaps. We are giving executives and auditors certainty.
Product-Agnostic Expertise
We master your existing defense controls like CrowdStrike, Microsoft, Palo Alto, Splunk, Sentinel and whatever else you have deployed. We are not about vendor lock-in and we won't be trying to change your products. Just deep technical and operational expertise maximizing your current investments.
Specialists for Difficult Problems
We focus on threat detection, mitigation, and response; the hardest problems in security. Whether you're Fortune 50 or a startup, we bring experience to see the full picture through a threat lens.
Actionable Intelligence, Not Shelf-ware
Comprehensive reports with executive summaries, technical evidence, and actionable recommendations along with operational dialogue to ensure improvements are understood and operationalized
Stop Guessing. Start Proving.
Your controls should protect you. We offer a no-pressure, 30-minute discussion with our defense validation specialists to review your specific needs. Start translating assumptions into actionable proof and strengthen your environment immediately.
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