Security Validation
Continuously validate and measure the effectiveness of your cyber security controls with the Mandiant Security Validation module.
53%
Attacks occur undetected on average
Only 9%
Alerts correlated by SIEM on average
About
Mandiant Security Validation goes beyond attack simulation to validate effectiveness.
The general assumption is that Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) provides a comprehensive view of an organization’s cyber security posture. It does not. Many traditional BAS vendors have begun to label themselves as security validation. However, security validation requires a specific set of capabilities to generate the evidence your security team needs to confidently protect the business including the ability to:
Access threat intelligence
Use the latest global threat and adversary intelligence to focus resources on specific and relevant threats facing your organization.
Safely deploy real attacks
Emulate authentic, active attack binaries and destructive attacks, including malware and ransomware.
Test comprehensively
Conduct real attacks across the full attack lifecycle with deep and comprehensive integration with your entire security infrastructure.
Prevent environmental drift
Continuously monitor your IT environment to detect and remediate unseen changes to your security architecture.
Safely test your security effectiveness against the latest attacks and adversaries
Cyber security effectiveness needs to be objectively measured on an ongoing basis, not only to ensure the systems and tools in place are reducing an organization’s exposure to risk, but also to support CISOs who are being asked to measurably improve and demonstrate the value of their security investments to key stakeholders.
Prove the value of security investments
Until now, there has been no measurable way for SOC teams or CISOs to demonstrate the value of their security investments. Security Validation empowers your team to measure cyber security performance with empirical evidence to prove that the security controls in place are protecting your environment.
$2.4m
Strategically manage your risk exposure with intelligence-led security validation
Powered by the Mandiant Intel Grid, Security Validation provides you with visibility and performance data to report on your organization’s security posture and overall competency. This approach allows you to prioritize your risk optimization strategy based on the knowledge of which threats matter most to your organization.
6x faster
Why Advantage?
Benefits of intelligence-led validation
Reduce costs
Capture real-time performance data of your controls and uncover areas of duplication or redundancy.
Prove effectiveness
Gain the evidence required to prove security effectiveness across technology, processes and teams.
Optimize security
Identify opportunities for optimization based on performance data and identified gaps.
| Product Capabilities | Mandiant Security Validation | Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) |
| Integrated intelligence on authentic and active adversary TTPs |  |
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| Measure performance of security controls against relevant and active attacks | |
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| Ability to safely test against malware | |
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| Automated environmental drift detection of security controls | |
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| Clear data that helps analyze return on investment performance | |
Limited |
| Full attack lifecycle visibility | |
Limited |
| Support for controls optimization and SIEM fine tuning | |
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| Ability to validate alert outcomes and reduce fatigue | |
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Learn more about Security Validation
Take a closer look at how our platform works and access our FAQs to uncover how you can start validating your cyber security effectiveness and realize potential cost savings by optimizing your security program.
Self-Guided Tour
Learn more about the unique features of Mandiant Security Validation.
2020 Security Effectiveness Report
Discover why security validation is so important in our latest sector report.
Getting started is easy
Schedule some time with an expert to see what Security Validation can do to help manage and improve your organization’s security effectiveness.
Automate security operations with Advantage
Mandiant Security Validation is a part of the Mandiant Advantage platform. Mandiant Advantage combines XDR capabilities with the Mandiant Intel Grid, embedded into automated solutions that prioritize detections, validate defenses, identify the latest threats and lower security costs. With Mandiant Advantage, teams can:
- Automate time consuming manual tasks
- Easily integrate and use preferred tools
- Effortlessly switch between Mandiant products with single login
- Improve your overall security posture