Cyber Attack Simulation
Test and strengthen your defences against realistic, chained adversary behaviour.
CyberTI® specialises in cyber attack simulation, offering an immersive exercise to test and enhance your organisation's cyber defences.
We merge the offensive tactics of red teaming with the defensive methodologies of the blue team — purple teaming — for a comprehensive evaluation of how your controls and your people actually perform under attack.
Red team, blue team and purple teaming
Red team
Simulating realistic cyber attacks to evaluate the effectiveness of your security measures, automated with MITRE Caldera.
Blue team
Defence-focused work using tools such as EDR to detect, prevent and respond to threats.
Purple teaming
Both sides working together, so every simulated technique becomes a tuned detection.
Continuous monitoring
Ongoing security monitoring, including cloud security monitoring, maintains vigilance after the exercise.
Every technique that lands should leave a detection behind it
The point of simulating an attack is not the attack. It is what your defences learn to see afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
It helps organisations identify and strengthen their security vulnerabilities — not in theory, but by demonstrating what actually happens when the controls are tested.
Penetration testing identifies individual vulnerabilities. Cyber attack simulation chains multiple vulnerabilities together to mimic a real cyber attack's full process, end to end.
We emulate named adversary behaviour from the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base — 222 techniques and 475 sub-techniques across 15 tactics, including the groups and campaigns most active against Australian organisations.
Typical scenarios chain initial access through to exfiltration or encryption.
A penetration test asks whether an attacker can get in. Purple teaming asks whether you would notice.
In a purple team exercise the offensive and defensive sides work together in the open. A known adversary technique is executed, both sides watch what your controls did, and the detection gap is closed before moving to the next technique. The output is not a list of vulnerabilities — it is a tuned detection for every technique exercised.
MITRE's own ATT&CK Evaluations follow this shape: known adversary TTPs executed against defensive products with results measured technique by technique. We use MITRE Caldera, an open-source platform built on ATT&CK, to automate the emulation side.
By producing measured results against a public standard rather than an assurance.
We emulate specific MITRE ATT&CK® techniques and record, per technique, whether your controls prevented it, detected it, or missed it. That produces a coverage map your board can read and compare over time — the same logic MITRE's Enterprise 2026 evaluation round applies when it scores detection quality, analyst precision, block timing and false-positive performance rather than issuing a pass/fail.
The valuable output is usually not the techniques you blocked. It is the short list you did not, with evidence.
Cybersecurity experts or specialised teams — in our engagements, testers experienced in adversary emulation working alongside your defenders.
Regularly — at least annually, or after significant changes to your IT environment.
Yes, and it is important to. Cloud environments carry their own weaknesses and must be included in any realistic simulation.
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Vulnerability Assessment
Transforming weaknesses into strengths — a defensible remediation order, not a 400-page scanner dump.
Penetration Testing
Goal-oriented testing by experienced testers, reported against business impact.
Ready to see your attack surface the way an attacker does?
Book a walkthrough with an Australian-based security engineer. No scripted demo, no obligation.
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