CIO Bulletin
SCYTHE – Redefining Cybersecurity with Revolutionary Approach to Risk Management and Adversary Emulation
In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, SCYTHE stands out as a transformative force, offering organizations a revolutionary approach to risk management. With a focus on Attack, Detect, and Respond, SCYTHE redefines how businesses tackle the complexities of modern cyber threats.
Central to SCYTHE’s platform is its dedication to collaboration, uniting red, blue, and purple teams in the simulation and emulation of real-world adversarial campaigns. This collaborative methodology allows organizations to proactively evaluate their cybersecurity posture and effectively prepare for emerging threats.
SCYTHE’s platform boasts innovative dual-deployment options and a suite of comprehensive features, enhancing its capability to provide a forward-thinking cybersecurity strategy. By leveraging SCYTHE, enterprises gain access to a cutting-edge adversary emulation platform, which supports continuous and realistic risk assessments. This empowers businesses to safeguard their digital assets and stay ahead of potential vulnerabilities with unmatched precision and foresight.
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.
How Purple Teaming Works
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 Bort 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.
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