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May Edition 2024

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SCYTHE – Pioneering a New Era in Cybersecurity Risk Management through Collaborative Adversarial Campaign Simulation and Proactive Defense

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, SCYTHE emerges as a game-changer, offering organizations a paradigm shift in risk management. By empowering them to Attack, Detect, and Respond efficiently, SCYTHE provides a comprehensive solution to navigate the complexities of modern threats.

At the core of SCYTHE's platform lies a commitment to collaboration, bringing together red, blue, and purple teams to simulate and emulate real-world adversarial campaigns. This collaborative approach ensures that organizations can proactively assess their cybersecurity posture and prepare for potential threats effectively.

SCYTHE's innovative dual-deployment options and comprehensive features further enhance its capabilities, enabling organizations to adopt a proactive cybersecurity approach. With SCYTHE, enterprises gain access to a next-generation adversary emulation platform, facilitating continuous and realistic risk assessments to safeguard their digital assets.

Unlocking the Future of Cybersecurity with SCYTHE BAS+ Platform

SCYTHE redefines threat simulation throughout the incident lifecycle with its BAS+ Platform, offering production-safe threat emulation that mirrors the strategies and techniques of real-world attackers. This ensures the safety of the organization's infrastructure while providing a realistic assessment of its security posture.

Proactive Security Testing: Empowering cybersecurity teams to focus on critical tasks, SCYTHE adopts a proactive, automated, and scenario-driven approach to security testing. This allows teams to analyze results, prioritize risks, and continuously improve their security defenses without getting bogged down by manual processes.

Holistic Cybersecurity Strategy: Promoting a holistic and collaborative cybersecurity strategy, SCYTHE unifies red and blue teams to enhance the organization's overall cyber resilience. By leveraging the strengths of both offensive and defensive teams, SCYTHE creates a more robust and adaptive security posture.

Measuring True MTTD/MTTR: By simulating real-world attack scenarios, SCYTHE identifies weaknesses, streamlines incident response workflows, and supports continuous improvement in cybersecurity resilience. This allows organizations to measure and improve their Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) metrics effectively.

Flexible Deployment Options: SCYTHE offers support for both agent and agentless deployment, enabling security teams to perform extensive threat emulations across various IT and OT/ICS assets and environments. This flexibility ensures that simulations can be conducted even in scenarios where agent installation may not be feasible or desirable.

Seamless Integration: Designed to seamlessly integrate into any cybersecurity ecosystem, SCYTHE's solutions effortlessly merge with existing tools and processes. This allows organizations to leverage their current security stack while enhancing security through realistic simulations and actionable insights.

Optimize Your Cyber Defense with Purple Teaming

In today's dynamic threat landscape, organizations encounter hurdles in implementing effective proactive cyber defense strategies. Traditional measures often fall short in realistically simulating threats, leaving vulnerabilities exposed. The divide between red and blue team approaches creates gaps in understanding, hindering a cohesive defense. Resource constraints further limit the implementation of robust security measures against emerging threats. Additionally, the proactive identification and prioritization of vulnerabilities face obstacles within this evolving threat landscape, while compliance complexities remain a constant concern.

In the face of these challenges, organizations are increasingly turning to advanced cybersecurity approaches, such as Purple Teaming, to stay ahead of emerging threats. Purple Teaming offers a proactive and collaborative approach to cybersecurity, bridging the gap between red and blue teams and providing actionable insights to strengthen defenses.

How Purple Teaming Works

  1. Tailored PTE Scenarios: Purple Teaming involves tailored Purple Team Exercises (PTE) scenarios that simulate real-world attack scenarios, allowing organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities effectively.
  2. Expert Guidance and Facilitation: With expert guidance and facilitation, organizations receive valuable insights and recommendations to improve their security posture.
  3. Regular Engagement: Purple Teaming emphasizes regular engagement between red and blue teams, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing to enhance overall cyber defense capabilities.
  4. Actionable Recommendations: At the core of Purple Teaming are actionable recommendations that enable organizations to prioritize and address vulnerabilities effectively, ensuring continuous adaptation and resilience against evolving threats.

SCYTHE's Breach & Attack Emulation Managed Services (BAS+)

In recognition of the need for more comprehensive security evaluations beyond traditional pen testing, SCYTHE introduces Breach & Attack Emulation Managed Services (BAS+). This innovative approach focuses on understanding and fortifying organizations' security postures through comprehensive Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) risk assessments.

SCYTHE's BAS+ platform comes equipped with hundreds of pre-packaged threats that replicate real-world cyber threats, ensuring alignment with organizations' cybersecurity strategies and risk tolerance. These industry-aligned threat scenarios provide organizations with valuable insights into potential vulnerabilities.

With BAS+ Managed Services, organizations can proactively identify and rectify potential weaknesses in their defense mechanisms. SCYTHE offers ongoing BAS+ assessments, purple team services, and more to ensure that security controls remain resilient amidst evolving threats.

SCYTHE's team of seasoned experts serves as invaluable resources throughout engagements. They facilitate collaboration between teams, promote a productive and cooperative environment, and assist in interpreting threat intelligence, understanding and prioritizing threats, and devising effective remediation strategies.

By leveraging SCYTHE's BAS+ Managed Services, organizations can elevate their cybersecurity defense strategy. These services assess, advise, and fortify security postures against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats.

The Ardent Visionary behind SCYTHE’s Success

Bryson is the Founder and Chairman of SCYTHE, and Co-Founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control system security. He is a Senior Fellow at the National Security Institute and Adjunct Senior Technical Advisor for the Institute of Security and Technology. As a U.S. Army Officer, he served as a Battle Captain and Brigade Engineering Officer in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom before leaving the Army as a Captain. He is recognized as a 'Top 50 in Cyber' by Business Insider, 'Security Executive Finalist of the Year' by SC Media, and was awarded 'Tech Titan' twice.

Bryson received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Management from the University of Maryland, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Florida, and completed graduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas.

“SCYTHE represents a paradigm shift in cybersecurity risk management, empowering organizations to Attack, Detect, and Respond efficiently.”

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