Expert-Led Detective Controls Testing

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Validate the efficacy of your security controls against real-world attack behaviors by blending expert-driven testing and research with powerful AI technology.

Focused Attack Simulation Packs

Understanding how an attacker views your environment and how ready your organization is to defend it is critical. NetSPI Detective Controls Testing validates that your security tools are operating effectively across endpoint security solutions, network security solutions, SIEMs, and MSSPs. Our team of experts help identify critical gaps, including misconfigurations and missed detections, and provide focused testing (simulation packs) to fit your environment.

MITRE ATT&CK View entire network

Provides a holistic view of detection controls across the entire network.

  • Simulates TTPs across the cyber kill chain, prioritizing common threat vectors, attacker behaviors, and high-risk threats identified by our expert analysis.

Linux Open-source

Addresses the challenges that come with Linux and open-source software.

  • Focuses on tactics often used to exploit Linux environments, such as remote code execution, shell configuration modifications, data extraction, and more.

Ransomware Early detection

Prevent lateral movement, privilege escalation, and encryption of data.

  • Simulates TTPs and behaviors from real-world ransomware campaigns, including specific threat actors such as CL0P, BlackCat, and Fin7. 

ESXi Virtual machines

Validate hypervisor-specific controls to mitigate risk and protect virtual machines.

  • Simulate real-world adversarial tactics, such as brute force, ransomware, and threat vectors that are common in ESXi environments.

Azure Cloud Entra tenant & users

Helps gather correlations between common cloud attacks and log sources.

  • Authenticated and anonymous attacks against Azure including command execution, credential guessing, sensitive data gathering, and more.

MacOS Apple

Target attack vectors specific to Mac systems in enterprise environments.

  • Addresses challenges of Apple’s macOS with simulations for Command & Script Interpreter execution, LaunchAgent persistence, data exfiltration and more.
NetSPI detective controls testing was very valuable because it showed us that there are attack venues and kill chains that could potentially go undetected. 
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Integrations & API Solutions for your tech stack

Our native integration capabilities and API ensure that security insights are not only visible but immediately actionable within your current tech stack and workflows, with the flexibility to customize based on your organization’s specific needs.

  • CrowdStrike Falcon
  • SentinelOne Singularity
  • Microsoft Defender
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • DefenseStorm GRID
  • Splunk Cloud & Enterprise

Benchmark Security Detection Tools Fine tune security controls

Despite having numerous security tools positioned to detect threats, most organizations fail to tune them effectively. NetSPI Detective Control Testing executes attack simulations in a safe environment to determine whether you have gaps or misconfigurations within your security controls, response processes, and procedures.

  • Discover gaps in detective controls, processes, and procedures
  • Determine if attacks were logged, detected, alerted, prevented, or responded to
  • Obtain remediation guidance from security experts and additional resources

Strengthen Ransomware Defenses Simulate real-world ransomware attacks

NetSPI’s research team monitors behaviors, patterns, and TTPs of real-world ransomware attacks, and uses this intelligence to develop focused testing that replicates ransomware operators.

  • Assess how well security controls can detect ransomware
  • Act on prevention guidance and continuously fine-tune detection controls
  • Detect ransomware earlier in the cyber kill chain to prevent full-scale attacks

Detective Controls Testing powered by the NetSPI Platform


Create and execute customized procedures utilizing purpose-built technology and NetSPI’s security experts. Simulate real-world attack behaviors, not just IOCs, and put your detective controls to the ultimate test.

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NetSPI provided what we would call the definition of a perfect ‘Purple Team’ engagement. They walked through the Breach and MITRE ATT&CK process while we monitored the SIEM for alert triggers to go off. The reporting after the fact was amazing as it had built triggers we could use to plug into our SIEM for enhanced protection, alerting and notification.