AEV Readiness Assessment
Do your controls actually work against a real adversary?
Most security teams assume their stack catches what it should. Adversarial Exposure Validation turns that assumption into evidence. Score your AEV readiness across five dimensions — cadence, emulation depth, response validation, CTI operationalization, and metrics — and see exactly where the gaps are.
Questions
15
Time
~4 minutes
Output
Score + 3-step plan
Gate
No email required
SCYTHE · AEV Readiness Assessment
Do your controls actually work against a real adversary?
Most security teams assume their stack catches what it should. Adversarial Exposure Validation turns that assumption into evidence. This assessment scores your AEV readiness across five dimensions and shows you exactly where the gaps are — in about four minutes.
What we measure
Your AEV Readiness Report
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Dimension breakdown
Your score across the five AEV capabilities.
Your next three moves
Ranked by impact. Start with P1.
Where AEV fits in CTEM
AEV is the engine behind CTEM's validation phase.
Gartner's Continuous Threat Exposure Management framework has five phases. Four of them are planning and coordination. The one that answers "does our security actually work?" is validation — and that's where AEV lives.
See SCYTHE validate your stack against a real adversary.
In a 30-minute deep dive, we'll run a live emulation mapped to a threat actor targeting your industry — against the detection logic you already have in place.
What You'll Learn
Five dimensions. One score. A clear path forward.
The assessment measures the capabilities that separate teams doing real Adversarial Exposure Validation from teams running atomic BAS tests and calling it the same thing. Each dimension maps to a specific gap that either compounds risk — or compounds value — every day it goes unaddressed.
Cadence
Are you testing continuously, or is your coverage stale the day after a pen test?
Emulation Depth
Multi-stage adversary campaigns vs. isolated atomic techniques vs. nothing at all.
Response Validation
When an alert fires, does your SOC actually act — or does it sit in the queue?
CTI Operationalization
How fast does threat intel become an executable campaign in your environment?
Measurement
Can you prove control efficacy to leadership with MTTD, MTTR, and regression rate?
Framework-Aligned
Built around AEV, aligned to the frameworks your program already uses.
Results map cleanly to MITRE ATT&CK coverage, Gartner's CTEM lifecycle, and the SCYTHE Purple Team Exercise Framework.
Your assessment result is the starting point — not the finish line.
Once you know your score, the next step is seeing what a real adversary campaign reveals about your stack. Book a 30-minute deep dive and we'll run a live emulation mapped to a threat actor targeting your industry.
30-minute session · Live emulation against your industry's threat actor