Insights & Perspectives

    Turning Threat Intelligence Into Proof: 2025 Year in Review

    January 15, 2026
    In 2025, threat intelligence mattered only when it drove action. AttackIQ’s Adversary Research Team focused on turning real adversary behavior into fast, practical validation, helping defenders continuously test readiness against the threats that mattered most.
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    Transform Your Security Organization with AI-Powered Security Validation

    September 15, 2025
    Security teams face more threats and fewer resources. AttackIQ’s purpose-built AI embeds intelligence into workflows and transforms how teams work.
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    From Alert Overload to Accurate Detection: How AI Agents Fix Broken SOC Workflows

    August 12, 2025
    SOC teams face up to 10,000 alerts a day, with accuracy dropping 40% after 12 hours. AI Agent-Driven Detection Engineering (ADD+E) combat entropy as rules decay, threats evolve, and knowledge fades.
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    Regulatory Revolution: Redefining Global Cybersecurity through Performance-Driven Standards

    November 30, 2023
    The landscape of global cybersecurity is undergoing a seismic shift, marked by a fervent departure from traditional compliance-based strategies towards a new era of performance-based fortification. Spearheaded by dynamic changes in the regulatory frameworks of powerhouse economies like the US and EU, this evolution aims not just for compliance checkboxes but tangible security outcomes that defy mounting threats and historical failures in defense mechanisms.
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    Defend as One: UK Cyber Security Strategy for Health and Adult Social Care to 2030

    April 26, 2023
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    Limits exist on what ChatGPT will tell you about warfare. And that’s a good thing.

    December 13, 2022
    OpenAI’s ChatGPT can tell you exactly how to use BAS to improve your cyberdefense effectiveness. But it won’t help you with the Russian military specifically, and that’s a very good thing. See below for why OpenAI deserves credit for this algorithmic limit.
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    A post about BAS, written in the voice of Langston Hughes, by OpenAI’s ChatGPT

    December 12, 2022
    We asked OpenAI’s ChaptGPT to write a 750-800 word blog post about breach and attack simulation (BAS) in the voice of Langston Hughes. It did great; see below. And well-done, team OpenAI. 
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    Looking Back at 2022: Adoption at Scale, Research, and Validated Industry Analysis 

    December 8, 2022
    A look back at how AttackIQ’s customers and advanced research, as well as key players in the analyst community, helped propel the breach and attack simulation market forward in 2022.
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    Ash Carter

    The Lessons Ash Carter Taught Me

    October 31, 2022
    One of Ash Carter’s former speechwriters and special assistants reflects on the lessons the Secretary of Defense leaves behind.
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    IDC Study The Business Value of AttackIQ '22

    IDC Study Finds Organizations Using AttackIQ Significantly Reduced Risk and Cost of Security Breaches, While Improving SOC Efficiency

    July 29, 2022
    Hot off the press, IDC has released an IDC Business value White Paper, sponsored by AttackIQ, that explores the business value and benefits of using the AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform.
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    MITRE ATT&CK at Seven: The Seven Biggest Milestones

    May 31, 2022
    It’s been seven years since the MITRE ATT&CK framework was first published. Here, we look at some of the major milestones in its development and examine how the framework has become a game-changer for enterprise cybersecurity.
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    IDC’s Top Insights Around Purple Teaming

    May 25, 2022
    Why adopt purple teaming? This IDC analyst brief explains how blending red and blue mindsets helps you holistically prepare for cyberattacks.
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    Integrations – Vectra

    April 18, 2022
    AttackIQ has released a new integration for use with network based scenarios. This blog describes use cases, scenarios one can utilize and what indicators we look for when determining a match.
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    5 Reasons You Don’t Want to Miss Purple Hats Conference 2022

    April 11, 2022
    The award-winning Purple Hats Conference is the industry destination for cybersecurity practitioners around the globe to collaborate, share ideas, and learn how to evolve cybersecurity strategies from a reactive to proactive threat-informed defense. We’re just days away from the best “cyberforum of the year” and you won’t want to miss it—and there’s still time to join. Here we’re breaking down for you five reasons you don’t want to miss Purple Hats.
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    2021 Impact Report

    The Center for Threat-Informed Defense: Impacting the Public Good

    February 9, 2022
    The Center for Threat-Informed Defense is transforming the practice of cybersecurity and elevating security teams’ performance all over the world. This blog post looks at research highlights from Center’s retrospective 2021 Impact Report, explains why the Center is so important to us at AttackIQ, and shows security teams how to elevate their program performance using a range of free educational resources derived from the Center’s research.
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    The trick to handling ransomware: prepare  

    January 19, 2022
    Ransomware is a vexing challenge and attacks have doubled since 2020, but there is a path out of the problem. In this new guide, Countering Ransomware with MITRE ATT&CK, AttackIQ outlines clear, practical steps to test and validate that your security program performs against ransomware. The trick is to prepare, and the path to follow is a threat-informed defense. Check it out and come join us for a technical demonstration of our ransomware capabilities on January 27.
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    Boards need to form a dedicated cybersecurity committee that can stay deeply engaged

    The Boardroom Isn’t Ready for the Next SolarWinds

    January 13, 2022
    Attacks like Log4j, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline have board rooms across the nation questioning their preparedness in combating cybersecurity risks. What can boards do now to be more effective for the next big attack?
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    Getting ahead of Log4Shell

    Getting Ahead of Log4Shell-enabled Cyberattacks: New Attack Scenarios and Technical Recommendations

    December 20, 2021
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    10 Things You May Not Know About Purple Teaming 

    October 27, 2021
    We’re familiar with red teaming and blue teaming, but have you heard about purple teaming? This blog dives into facts you may not be aware of around this new team construct meant to foster collaboration between red and blue teams for a stronger cybersecurity practice.
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    Don’t treat cybersecurity hygiene like your car engine light

    October 21, 2021
    ESG has just released the key findings of its cybersecurity hygiene and posture management survey, and in a poll of 400 cybersecurity professionals in North American enterprises, the number one action respondents said would improve cybersecurity hygiene? You guessed it: continuous security control validation.
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    What To Do in the Case of Brand Reputation Impersonation

    October 15, 2021
    Recently, AttackIQ was notified that an Iranian threat actor had created a fake domain and fraudulent website (attackiq[.]ir) impersonating AttackIQ and abusing the company brand. This blog is an account of what happened and how AttackIQ responded, and it aims to provide insights to help organizations prepare to deal with similar Brand Reputation Abuse situations.
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    “Zero Trust But Validate.” It’s not enough to deploy a zero trust architecture. You need to continuously validate that it works.

    October 4, 2021
    To echo a famous Russian proverb, “trust but verify,” it’s not enough to implement a zero trust architecture. Continuous testing is the only way to achieve real cybersecurity readiness.
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    Is Your Healthcare Organization Following These Four Ransomware Best Practices?

    August 24, 2021
    Healthcare is the most targeted sector for data breaches, and ransomware attacks were responsible for almost 50 percent of all healthcare data breaches in 2020. How should healthcare companies proceed? Our guest blogger in this ransomware series is Tracy Cohen, a cybersecurity expert with over a decade of experience managing cybersecurity risk in the healthcare and biopharma sector. She is also a licensed skydiver,
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    Standing Up for Our Principles: AttackIQ Signs the Respect In Security

    August 16, 2021
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