Detective Controls Testing

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

Expert-Led Detective Controls Testing

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Understanding how an attacker views your environment and how ready your organization is to defend it is critical. NetSPI Detective Control Testing validates that security controls across endpoint security solutions, network security solutions, SIEMs, and MSSPs are operating effectively. It benchmarks detection coverage, provides business and threat context of identified gaps, and delivers detailed remediation guidance, including detection opportunities, data sources, and prevention steps.

Focused Attack Simulation Packs

Detective Controls Testing offers focused simulation packs that deliver comprehensive manual testing led by our security experts, who will engage with your security operations team to guide you through the process. The controlled attack simulations will be conducted within your environment to generate and analyze security events with you.

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.
The detective controls testing was very valuable because it showed us that there are attack venues and kill chains that could potentially go undetected. 

Integrations & API

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

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Benchmark Security Detection Tools Fine tune threat identification 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
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.

No Matter Your Role Detective Controls
Testing Can Help

Directors & Managers  

NetSPI experts work with your team to inventory security controls, simulate attacker behaviors, and put your detective controls to the test. Your team gains guidance on creating custom plays tailored to the threats and methodologies most important to your environment, and benchmark progress against the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

C-Suite & Board of Directors

Our reports and dashboards provide clear visuals of improved security coverage and demonstrate the ROI of security efforts. It also supports strategic planning by offering a traditional MITRE matrix heat map that pinpoints improvement areas, compares security vendor detection capabilities, and benchmarks coverage against your peers.

Red Team Operations

Red teams are able to 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.

Engineers & Analysts 

Detective Control Testing provides deep insights and data context of findings, such as misconfigurations and kill chain weaknesses. Save time with detailed analysis of attack behavior, and step-by-step guidance to reproduce attacks. You can also design custom attacks and advanced simulations that are specifically relevant to your environment.