OPERATIONAL CTI · THREAT-INFORMED DEFENSE
CTI stops at the report.
SCYTHE doesn't.
THE PROBLEM
You have intelligence.
You don't have proof.
We read about Volt Typhoon, added the TTPs to our tracker, and updated our detection rules. Six months later we realized we’d never verified a single rule actually fired in our environment.
Security Operations Lead — Fortune 500 Financial Institution
Intelligence Without Evidence
CTI tells you what adversaries are doing. It does not tell you whether your controls would stop them. That gap is where breaches happen.
TTP-to-Test Is Manual and Slow
Translating a threat actor profile into a testable emulation campaign takes days of analyst time — if it happens at all. Most teams don’t have the capacity.
Rules Written, Never Verified
Detection rules are written in response to CTI, then left untested. A parser change, a field rename, a policy drift — and your rule silently stops working.
New Intelligence, No Immediate Action
A new advisory drops — CISA, an ISAC, a threat intel vendor. Your team reads it. The question no one can answer: “Would we have caught this?”
WHAT SCYTHE DELIVERS
Intelligence-led emulation.
Evidence-based assurance.
SCYTHE closes the loop between what your CTI program knows and what your security
controls can prove — by operationalizing threat intelligence as real
adversary emulation campaigns, continuously.
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CTI-Driven Campaign Generation Feed any threat intelligence into SCYTHE — a report PDF, a STIX bundle, an ISAC advisory, or a direct API feed from Recorded Future, MISP, or OpenCTI. SCYTHE’s AI extracts TTPs, maps them to ATT&CK, and builds an emulation campaign ready to run. →STIX/TAXII & TIP integrations
→AI TTP extraction from unstructured reports
→ATT&CK-aligned campaign blueprints in minutes
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Emulate Threat Actors, Not Scenarios SCYTHE emulates the specific techniques attributed to the threat actor targeting your industry — not generic scenarios. When a new advisory names a group, SCYTHE can have a campaign running against your environment within hours, not weeks. →Threat actor & campaign libraries (APT, eCrime)
→Same-day emulation on new advisories
→Multi-stage kill chain emulation, not isolated techniques
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Continuous Control Validation Against Your Threat Landscape Run CTI-informed campaigns on a schedule — weekly, or auto-triggered when new intelligence arrives. Know which of your active threat actors your controls detect, and which they miss, before an incident tells you. →Scheduled & change-triggered testing
→Full detection chain: EDR → SIEM → SOC alert
→Drift detection when rules break silently
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WHAT SCYTHE DELIVERS
From intel to evidence in four steps.
SCYTHE operationalizes CTI through a repeatable, automated workflow — from ingesting
intelligence to delivering measurable proof of control effectiveness.
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Ingest Connect your TI feeds, paste a report, or pull from Recorded Future, MISP, or ISAC portals. SCYTHE ingests structured and unstructured intelligence. TI Feeds · STIX · TAXII · PDF
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Extract & Build AI identifies threat actors, TTPs, and campaign behaviors. Emulation campaigns are assembled from SCYTHE’s threat library, mapped to ATT&CK. ATT&CK · AI Campaign Builder
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Emulate Campaigns run in your production environment on schedule. Safe, controlled, fully auditable. The same techniques your threat actors use — tested against your actual defenses. Production-Safe · Scheduled
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Evidence SCYTHE delivers ATT&CK coverage maps, detection gap reports, MTTR metrics, and validated findings — pushed into your SOAR and ticketing systems. SOAR · ITSM · ATT&CK Map
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MEASURED OUTCOMES
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WHY IT MATTERS
Stop assuming your controls work against the threats in your reports.
Most CTI programs produce reports that end in a ticketing system or a Confluence page. SCYTHE transforms your threat intelligence investment into a continuous testing engine, so every advisory, every ISAC bulletin, every new APT profile translates into measured evidence of whether your defenses are ready.
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Know which active threat actors your EDR detects — and which it misses
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Prove the ROI of your CTI program with detection coverage metrics
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Give your CTI analysts a feedback loop: did the detections they wrote actually fire?
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Respond to new advisories with proof, not patching assumptions
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Align CTI outputs directly with CTEM validation phase requirements
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BEFORE & AFTER SCYTHE
What changes when you operationalize CTI.
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⚠️ Without Operational CTI
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Read a new Volt Typhoon advisory. Add TTPs to the tracker. File it.
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Write detection rules in response to a report. Never test them in production.
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Assume your EDR covers the threat actors in your industry sector.
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Board asks “are we protected from the threat actors in the news?” You answer with qualifications.
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CTI program produces reports. No measurable outcome for security controls.
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Gaps discovered during an incident — not before.
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✓ With SCYTHE Operational CTI
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New advisory ingested. Emulation campaign running against production within hours.
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Detection rules written & immediately validated against real techniques in your environment.
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ATT&CK coverage map shows exactly which techniques from your threat actor profiles are detected vs. missed.
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Board question answered with measured ATT&CK coverage, detection rates, and MTTR data.
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CTI program produces emulation campaigns, evidence, and measurable control improvement.
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Gaps found continuously, fixed before attackers exploit them.
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USE CASES
Who uses SCYTHE for Operational CTI?
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CTI Analyst
Close the Gap Between Research and Validation
Build emulation campaigns directly from threat actor profiles and ISAC advisories. Get feedback on which detections fired — and which rules need to be tuned — without involving red team resources.
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Security Operations
Know Your SOC Readiness Against Active Threats
Run scheduled CTI-driven campaigns and measure SOC response time, alert fidelity, and playbook accuracy against the specific adversary techniques targeting your sector — not against generic test scenarios.
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Detection Engineering
Validate Detection Rules Against Real Actor TTPs
Every detection rule written in response to threat intelligence should be tested against the actual technique it was designed to catch. SCYTHE automates that loop — continuously, in production.
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Purple Team
Threat-Informed Purple Team Exercises
Structure purple team exercises around the threat actors most likely to target your organization. Use SCYTHE to execute the attack side, so your defensive team is measured against realistic scenarios.
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CISO / Risk
Translate CTI Into Board-Level Risk Metrics
Answer the question “are we protected from [threat actor X]?” with ATT&CK coverage data, detection rates, and validated control evidence — not analyst estimates.
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Incident Response
Pre-Validate Response Plans Against Known Adversaries
Before an incident happens, run the scenarios. Use CTI about adversaries historically targeting your industry to stress-test your IR playbooks with actual adversary techniques.
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RELATED SOLUTIONS
Operational CTI is one piece of AEV.
Your next advisory drops tomorrow. Will you know if you're ready?
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
How does SCYTHE differ from using Atomic Red Team for detection testing?
Can SCYTHE test detection rules without alerting our SOC?
How does SCYTHE handle multi-vendor log sources?
What MITRE ATT&CK coverage can we expect to measure?
Build detection rules with confidence they'll actually fire.
See how SCYTHE integrates into your detection engineering workflow and gives your team measurable, continuous coverage visibility.