# AttackIQ: Proactively Manage Threat Exposure with CTEM

> AttackIQ operationalizes CTEM through autonomous, AI\-powered cybersecurity missions that validate defenses, break attack paths, and reduce threat debt\.

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## Pages
- [AVA Agentic OS](https://www.attackiq.com/platform/ava-os/): eatured Resource From Security Gaps to Continuous Validation Point\-in\-time security tests aren’t enough\. Continuous validation ensures your defenses are always ready by proactively identifying and addressing threat exposure\. Learn how AEV enhances your security posture through the five stages of CTEM—before attackers can exploit them\.
- [Home](https://www.attackiq.com/): eatured Resource From Security Gaps to Continuous Validation Point\-in\-time security tests aren’t enough\. Continuous validation ensures your defenses are always ready by proactively identifying and addressing threat exposure\. Learn how AEV enhances your security posture through the five stages of CTEM—before attackers can exploit them\.
- [AttackIQ Branding](https://www.attackiq.com/branding/)
- [Inform Tool](https://www.attackiq.com/inform-tool/)
- [INFORM: Advance Your Threat\-Informed Defense](https://www.attackiq.com/inform/)

## Posts
- [What Adversarial Exposure Validation \(AEV\) Means for Federal Cybersecurity](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/08/04/what-aev-means-for-federal-cybersecurity/): Explore how Adversarial Exposure Validation, AI, and workforce readiness are reshaping federal cybersecurity beyond point\-in\-time assessments\.
- [Finding Flaws Got Easy\. That Broke How We Measure Exposure\.](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/07/08/finding-flaws-got-easy/): Vulnerability counts keep climbing because AI made finding flaws easy\. Here's why the count stopped mattering and what to measure instead\.
- [Analyzing Nova Ransomware: A Rust\-Based Encryptor with Multi\-Layered Microsoft Defender Evasion Techniques](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/07/31/analyzing-nova-ransomware/): Nova is an active Ransomware\-as\-a\-Service \(RaaS\) operation that combines sophisticated defense evasion, recovery inhibition, and hybrid file encryption to maximize impact\. This analysis examines the Rust\-based encryptor's execution flow, including Microsoft Defender tampering, security process termination, Volume Shadow Copy deletion, anti\-analysis techniques, and XChaCha20\-Poly1305/RSA\-2048 encryption\. It also introduces a new AttackIQ adversary emulation that enables security teams to continuously validate detection and prevention capabilities against Nova’s observed tactics, techniques, and procedures\.
- [Introducing AVA Agentic OS: The New AttackIQ](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/07/30/introducing-ava-os/): Today we announced AVA Agentic OS, the operating system for Continuous Threat Exposure Management, and the start of a new era for cyber defensive operations and AttackIQ\.
- [Response to CISA Advisory \(AA26\-204A\): Russian State\-Supported Cyber Actors Conduct Phishing Campaign Targeting Users of Zimbra Collaboration Suite](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/07/27/response-to-aa26-204a/): AttackIQ introduced the following scenarios in response to the recently published CISA Advisory \(AA26\-204A\), which details how the Russian state\-sponsored adversary known as Laundry Bear has targeted and compromised government and commercial organizations across Western countries through the exploitation of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite \(ZCS\) since at least July 2025\.

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## Glossary
- [Threat\-Informed Defense](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/threat-informed-defense/): MITRE defines threat\-informed defense as the strategy of “applying a deep understanding of adversary tradecraft and technology to protect against, detect, and mitigate cyberattacks\.” The AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform enables a threat\-informed defense through continuous, automated adversary emulations that test your cyberdefenses against well\-defined threats, using the MITRE ATT\&CK framework, and then measures the effectiveness of those defenses and executes improvements continuously\.
- [AttackIQ Informed Defense Architecture \(AIDA\)](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/attackiq-informed-defense-architecture-aida/): AIDA is a scalable and open testing architecture for verifying the integrity and effectiveness of security controls\. AIDA uses test points deployed at scale in the production network to safely emulate attacker behavior across the kill chain\. It combines multiple behavioral techniques to offer the broadest and deepest control validation solution available, with the best alignment to the MITRE ATT\&CK matrix\. AIDA is API\-first and fully integrateable into other systems\. The AIDA content library is fully open as well; users can inspect the tests, modify them, and create their own tests\.
- [Automated Security Control Validation](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/automated-security-control-validation/): Automated security control validation is the process of measuring and validating your security control performance in an automated fashion\. The AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform tests and validates that your security controls are working as intended and does so in a continuous and automated manner across your security program, using scenarios and assessments aligned to threat intelligence and adversary behaviors in the MITRE ATT\&CK® framework\. With real\-time data on the performance of your controls, you can make smarter decisions and adjustments to your technology, processes, and personnel\. The benefits of continuous testing go far beyond security control validation into workforce management, compliance optimization, and investment decision support\.
- [Attack Graphs](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/attack-graphs/): Attack Graphs align adversary tactics, techniques, and behaviors in a chain to emulate the adversary with specificity and realism and test a range of security controls within an environment\. They make it easier for organizations to visually measure their defense performance against a series of attacks\. Attack Graphs emerged from the AttackIQ Anatomic Engine, a component within the Security Optimization Platform designed from the ground\-up to test ML/AI\-based cybersecurity technologies\. It combines the industry’s leading atomic testing capabilities with the most comprehensive adversary emulation capabilities on the market, making it easy for operators to recreate and evoke complex, multi\-stage adversary campaigns that reflect the adversary\.
- [Compliance Optimization](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/compliance-optimization/): Compliance optimization is the process of applying a threat\-informed defense strategy to measure your compliance effectiveness, improve your cybersecurity readiness, and decrease your regulatory burden\. The AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform aligns your threat and risk management frameworks, validating your security effectiveness using real\-world threat behaviors from the MITRE ATT\&CK framework and measuring your compliance performance under the NIST 800\-53 family of security controls and DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model \(CMMC\)\.

## Landing Pages
- [Black Hat USA 2026](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/black-hat-2026/): Black Hat 2026: Visit AttackIQ at Booth 1957 to see CTEM in action, explore threat debt, Watchtower, MITRE INFORM, and more\.
- [FIRST Conference 2026](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/first-conference-2026/): Join Jon Baker to explore the INFORM maturity model, assess your threat\-informed defense program, and connect with peers at an exclusive happy hour\.
- [Infosecurity Europe 2026](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/infosecurity-europe-2026/): Stop at Booth B105 and see how we operationalize CTEM, turning exposure management into measurable risk reduction\.
- [CTEM in 90 Days Challenge](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/ctem-in-90-days/)
- [AttackIQ Partner Champion Training](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/partner-champion-training/)

## Resources
- [DISA Selects AttackIQ as the Department of War's Enterprise Platform for Adversarial Exposure Validation](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/press-release/disa-selects-attackiq/): Department\-wide deployment establishes a common platform for Adversarial Exposure Validation, enabling AI\-powered cyber missions with AVA Agentic OS\.
- [2026 Gartner Market Guide for Adversarial Exposure Validation](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/report/2026-gartner-guide-for-aev/): Explore Gartner's 2026 AEV Market Guide\-learn how CTEM teams validate real risk and prove which exposures are truly exploitable\.
- [Mission Readiness in the Age of AI Threats](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/webinars/mission-readiness/): In this session, we'll discuss what AI\-driven threats look like in practice for federal and defense networks and what it means for patching, authorization, and risk decisions\. You'll leave knowing where to focus validation efforts to ensure your controls hold against real\-world attack paths\.
- [AttackIQ Named to 2026 MES Midmarket 100 List for Second Consecutive Year, Recognizing Continued Leadership in Operationalizing CTEM for Midsize Enterprises](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/press-release/attackiq-named-to-2026-mes-midmarket-100-list/): Award highlights company's continued momentum helping midsize enterprises reduce threat debt by validating real attack paths and prioritizing the exposures that matter most\.
- [CTEM Runs on AVA Agentic OS](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/press-release/ctem-runs-on-ava-agentic-os/): AttackIQ has introduced AVA Agentic OS, the first agentic operating system for Continuous Threat Exposure Management \(CTEM\)\. AVA orchestrates specialized AI agents into autonomous cybersecurity missions that continuously validate defenses, reduce threat debt, and operationalize CTEM at scale\.

## Testimonials
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-10/)
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-5/)
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-6/)
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-7/)
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-8/)

## GreenShift Stylebook
- [Greenshift Stylebook](https://www.attackiq.com/gspbstylebook/greenshift-stylebook/)

## Categories
- [Threat Research](https://www.attackiq.com/category/research/)
- [Insights \& Perspectives](https://www.attackiq.com/category/insights/)
- [Threat Advisories](https://www.attackiq.com/category/advisories/)
- [Product \& Platform](https://www.attackiq.com/category/platform/)
- [Industry \& Community](https://www.attackiq.com/category/community/)

## Tags
- [Ransomware](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/ransomware/)
- [Broad\-Based Attacks](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/broad-based-attacks/)
- [Cybersecurity](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/cybersecurity/)
- [TTPs](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/ttps/)
- [Adversary Emulation](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/adversary-emulation/)

## Industries
- [Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/retail/)
- [Fortune 50 Retailer](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/fortune-50-retailer/)
- [Biosciences](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/biosciences/)
- [Insurance](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/insurance/)
- [Facility Management Services](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/facility-management-services/)

## Resource Categories
- [News](https://www.attackiq.com/resource-category/news/)
- [Webinars](https://www.attackiq.com/webinars/)
- [Press Releases](https://www.attackiq.com/resource-category/press-release/)
- [CISO Guides](https://www.attackiq.com/resource-category/white-paper/)
- [Datasheets](https://www.attackiq.com/resource-category/datasheet/)

## Use Cases
- [Automated Testing](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/automated-testing/)
- [Ease of Use](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/ease-of-use/)
- [Demonstrate ROI](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/demonstrate-roi/)
- [Save Time](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/save-time/)
- [Security Control Effectiveness](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/security-control-effectiveness/)

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