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Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)

Proactively Identify Exposures, Validate Security Controls, and Build Resilience Against Real-World Threats

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cyber threat simulation

Real-World Threat Simulation

Emulate actual adversary behaviors to test defenses under realistic conditions.
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Continuous Security Control Validation

Ensure tools like EDR, SIEM, DLP, and firewalls are detecting and responding as intended.
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cyber insights

Actionable Risk Insights

Identify and prioritize exposures with clear, contextual guidance for remediation.
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cyber resilience

Improved Cyber Resilience

Strengthen response capabilities and reduce risk across the kill chain through ongoing testing.
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antivirus

Expert Threat Practitioners

Our seasoned experts foster collaboration across your teams, driving a productive and unified security effort.
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cyber industries

Industry-aligned Scenarios

We assess your threat landscape and goals to recommend tailored threat scenarios aligned with your security and compliance needs.

Challenges we solve

Elevating Red Team Impact
  • Limited Realism in Security Testing – Emulate real adversary TTPs to move beyond canned simulations, delivering authentic attack scenarios that test defenses across the full kill chain.

  • Ineffective Detection Coverage – Expose gaps in detection and response by safely mimicking advanced threats, helping red and blue teams validate what’s working—and what’s not.

  • Disjointed Red Team Engagements – Provide structured, repeatable adversary emulation that integrates seamlessly with blue and purple team workflows, maximizing the impact of red team operations.

Continuous Security Control Assurance
  • Unverified Tool Performance – Continuously test EDR, SIEM, firewall, and other controls to ensure they detect, alert, and respond as expected.

  • Stale or Static Security Posture – Replace one-time assessments with ongoing validation to keep pace with evolving threats and infrastructure changes.

  • Lack of Measurable Security Effectiveness – Provide clear, repeatable metrics that track improvements and demonstrate ROI across your security stack.

Turning Emulation into Actionable Risk Insights
  • Prioritized Exposure Remediation – Translate technical findings into clear, business-aligned actions that help teams focus on what matters most.

  • Context-Rich Threat Intelligence – Link findings to real-world adversary behavior, giving teams the "why" behind every detection gap or missed control.

  • Data-Driven Security Decisions – Equip leadership with measurable insights to threat exposure risk, guiding resource allocation, roadmap planning, and continuous improvement.

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About SCYTHE

SCYTHE is a leader in Adversarial Emulation & Validation (AEV), helping organizations proactively improve their cybersecurity resilience.

Our platform safely emulates real-world adversaries to unlock deep insights into threat exposures, security control performance, and potential business impact. By enabling automated, continuous security control validation, SCYTHE allows teams to move beyond assumptions—proving what works, identifying what doesn’t, and prioritizing risk with confidence.

Whether you're empowering red teams with realistic adversary campaigns, enabling blue teams to validate detections and defenses, or aligning both through purple teaming, SCYTHE provides the clarity and automation needed to stay ahead of evolving threats. 

With SCYTHE, you’re not just keeping up with threats—you’re staying one step ahead. Automate. Validate. Protect. That’s the SCYTHE difference.

Things you can’t live without

SCYTHE offers a number of products and services to solve your needs and increase your cyber resilience.

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SCYTHE AEV Platform

Transform your cybersecurity strategy with SCYTHE’s AEV platform—delivering advanced adversary emulation and validation, flexible deployment, and real-time insights. Designed for proactive, continuous defense, SCYTHE helps organizations stay ahead of evolving threats and build lasting resilience.
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SCYTHE Empower

Customer-specific emulations and expert guidance tailored to your organization’s unique threat landscape. Empower helps security teams operationalize threat intelligence by aligning emulations with relevant Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), providing actionable insights and strategic direction to strengthen defenses where it matters most.
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Managed AEV

All the benefits of the SCYTHE AEV Platform—adversary emulation, continuous security control validation, and risk-based insights—as a fully managed service. Leveraging the expertise of SCYTHE Labs, Managed AEV guides your security program without requiring dedicated internal resources, enabling you to reduce risk and improve resilience with no overhead.
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Managed PTE

Expert-led PTE service that brings structured, recurring emulation engagements to your organization—delivered bi-annually, quarterly, or monthly based on your needs. Our team works alongside yours to execute targeted adversary emulations, validate detection and response capabilities, and provide actionable insights that drive continuous cybersecurity improvement and measurable progress over time.
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Tabletops

Combine strategic planning with technical validation to strengthen your organization’s readiness and response. Our exercises engage stakeholders across the business to align on incident response roles, communication workflows, and decision-making under pressure. Optionally paired with hands-on purple team engagements, we simulate real-world threats to validate detection and response capabilities, uncover gaps, and drive measurable improvements across people, process, and technology.
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Purple Teaming

Bridge the gap between offensive and defensive security by aligning red and blue team efforts through collaborative, threat-informed exercises. Leveraging the SCYTHE AEV Platform, our experts simulate real-world adversary behaviors to test, tune, and validate your detection and response capabilities. These engagements provide actionable insights, enhance team coordination, and drive continuous improvement across your security operations—ensuring you're prepared for the threats that matter most.
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AEV Guide

Our guide 'Leveraging SCYTHE for Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)' explores how CTEM and AEV transform enterprise cybersecurity from reactive to proactive.

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Cyber Fitness Guide

This guide is key to a long-term approach to cyber fitness. Much like personal health, cybersecurity is not a one-time effort—it requires ongoing care, attention, and adjustments.

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CTI eBook

CTI is a cornerstone of modern cybersecurity, enabling organizations to proactively mitigate evolving cyber threats.

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Offensive Security eBook

For security leaders looking to navigate this challenging landscape, developing a comprehensive strategy is essential.

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Red Team eBook

This eBook serves as a comprehensive roadmap for organizations at any stage of their Red Team maturity.

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CISOs Guide

This framework guides organizations in progressing from ad-hoc exercises to a well-functioning team.

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Client Testimonials

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SCYTHE improves our security control efficacy, optimizing budget spend and ROI, while also enhancing talent development, training, and partner relationships.

Ian Anderson
OG&E
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SCYTHE's precision in adversarial emulation empowers our red team to simulate real-world threats efficiently, providing actionable insights and focus, while also enabling our blue team to rapidly test and validate security controls, significantly elevating our security posture.

Fortune 100 Insurance Company
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SCYTHE has truly become an indispensable partner in our pursuit of cyber excellence, continuously empowering us to stay ahead of evolving threats and validate our defenses effectively.

Global 500 Telecommunications Company
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SCYTHE has cut our MITRE ATT&CK testing from days to just moments.

John Strand
Black Hills Information Security
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You don’t need to have tens or hundreds of analysts, a blue team, a red team, or cyber-intelligence experts to implement a purple team. You just need great security people interested in researching and understanding attacks. To start, you just need one TTP and a tool capable of receiving logs and generating alerts.

Camilo Ruiz
Dupaco Community Credit Union
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SCYTHE is a technology every enterprise red team should have so they can prepare the blue team for engagements with cutting-edge offensive teams. The average dwell time of undetected compromises is currently measured in months and SCYTHE enables the red team to give the blue team something realistic to hunt.

Ron Gula
Gula Tech Ventures
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is SCYTHE?

SCYTHE is a Continuous Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) platform that enables organizations to test security controls the way real adversaries operate. Instead of relying on assumptions, SCYTHE continuously emulates real-world attack behaviors to validate detections, measure exposure, and reduce risk over time.

What is Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)?

Adversarial Exposure Validation is the practice of continuously testing security controls against realistic adversary tradecraft. Instead of relying on assumptions or point-in-time testing (e.g., penetration testing), AEV uses threat emulation to identify exposures, validate detections, and measure risk.

AEV shifts security validation from periodic testing to measurable, continuous assurance, allowing teams to quantify exposure and track improvement over time.

How does SCYTHE support Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)?

SCYTHE operationalizes CTEM by providing continuous, repeatable testing of adversary behaviors across environments. It helps organizations move through CTEM phases, from scoping and discovery to validation and improvement, using automated emulation rather than manual assessment. SCYTHE also extends CTEM into the AI domain, bringing AI assurance directly into existing red, blue, and purple team workflows.

What does SCYTHE test?

SCYTHE tests whether security controls actually detect, alert, block, and respond to realistic adversary behavior. It validates detection logic, response workflows, control coverage, and regression risk when tools or configurations change.

How is SCYTHE different from penetration testing or breach simulation tools?

Penetration testing and breach simulation are typically periodic and vulnerability-focused. SCYTHE provides continuous adversarial emulation and automated security control validation, allowing teams to test advanced adversary tradecraft repeatedly and measure exposure over time.

Unlike vulnerability scanners or configuration review tools, SCYTHE focuses on behavioral validation. Unlike traditional BAS tools, SCYTHE supports advanced multi-stage emulation, dynamic campaign building, and production-scale continuous testing.

Can SCYTHE emulate advanced adversary tradecraft?

Yes. SCYTHE is designed to emulate advanced adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). This includes multi-stage attack chains, evasion techniques, and realistic adversary behavior used by sophisticated threat actors.

Does SCYTHE support red, blue, and purple teams?

Yes. SCYTHE is built to support red, blue, and purple team collaboration. The platform enables: Red teams to emulate real adversaries safely, blue teams to validate detections and response actions, and purple teams to operationalize findings through continuous testing and feedback loops.

How does AI factor into the SCYTHE platform?

SCYTHE uses private AI models to accelerate dynamic test generation, optimize adversary emulation, and expand MITRE ATT&CK coverage. AI assists in generating and adapting campaigns while maintaining full human governance and execution control.

Is SCYTHE safe to run in production environments?

Yes. SCYTHE is designed for production-safe adversary emulation. Tests are controlled, configurable, and widely used in live IT, cloud, and OT environments to validate real-world conditions without operational disruption. All actions are logged, controlled, and configurable. Destructive capabilities require explicit authorization and are auditable.

What environments does SCYTHE support?

SCYTHE delivers continuous cybersecurity validation across: enterprise IT environments, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, and Operational Technology (OT) and distributed systems. This enables consistent exposure validation across modern, complex environments.

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