FAQs

What are the key use cases for the Mitigant Platform?

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The Mitigant Platform addresses seven critical use cases across cloud security operations:

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1. 🤖 AI Red Teaming (CAE + CSPM)

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Purpose-built for testing AI workloads in the cloud

The Challenge:

• Organizations adopting GenAI/AI workloads lack security validation capabilities
• New attack vectors targeting AI/ML systems (LLMJacking, prompt injection, data poisoning)
• Traditional security tools don't cover AI-specific threats mapped to MITRE ATLAS

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How Mitigant Helps:

• Specialized GenAI security validation with attacks mapped to MITRE ATLAS framework
• Emulates AI-specific attacks like LLMJacking against Amazon Bedrock
• Tests security of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) data sources
• Validates detection and response capabilities for AI workloads without writing code
• Monitors and detects misconfigurations in GenAI cloud resources (CSPM)

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Who Benefits:

• Organizations deploying GenAI services
• AI/ML engineering teams
• Data science teams using cloud AI services
• Security teams responsible for AI infrastructure

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Real-World Application:

• Test security of Amazon Bedrock deployments against data poisoning attacks
• Validate that LLMJacking attempts are detected by your security tools
• Identify security blind spots in GenAI infrastructure
• Ensure RAG S3 buckets are properly secured against ransomware

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Learn more: AI Red Teaming Use Case

See platform: Cloud Attack Emulation for GenAI

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2. ☁️ Cloud Penetration Testing (CAE)

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Streamlined cloud penetration testing—no need to wait for months!

The Challenge:

• Traditional penetration tests take months to schedule and provide only point-in-time validation
• Cloud environments change constantly - pen test results become outdated quickly
• Manual pen testing doesn't scale for continuous cloud deployments
• Expensive and requires specialized security consultants

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How Mitigant Helps:

• Continuous, automated cloud penetration testing - run tests daily, weekly, or on-demand
• No waiting for external consultants - security engineers can run tests immediately
• 100+ pre-built attack scenarios based on real cloud attack patterns
• Automated, repeatable scenarios that can be re-run after remediation
• Safe execution with automatic rollback and BYOR (Bring Your Own Role) controls
• Cloud-native attacks that understand AWS, Azure attack vectors

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Who Benefits:

• Cloud security teams
• DevSecOps engineers
• Organizations with rapid cloud deployment cycles
• Teams needing continuous validation between annual pen tests

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Real-World Application:

• Test new deployments before they reach production
• Validate that external pen test findings have been properly remediated
• Run weekly automated tests against cloud infrastructure
• Maintain continuous security assurance without waiting months

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Learn more: Cloud Penetration Testing Use Case

Learn more: Cloud Attack Emulation: Democratizing Security Operations

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3. ✅ Detection Validation (CAE + CSPM)

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Prove your defenses actually work as desired

The Challenge:

• Security teams deploy detection tools (SIEM, CDR, EDR, CNAPP) but don't know if they actually work
• Detection rules may have blind spots, misconfigurations, or coverage gaps
• False sense of security from unvalidated detection capabilities
• Can't prove ROI on security tool investments

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How Mitigant Helps:

• Validates detection effectiveness by emulating real attacks mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
• Tests whether your SIEM/CDR/CNAPP actually triggers alerts when attacks occur
• Provides Sigma rules to close identified detection gaps
• Reveals which attack techniques your SOC can and cannot detect
• Identifies false negatives before attackers exploit them
• Proves security tools are properly configured and functioning

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Who Benefits:

• SOC teams validating detection rules
• Detection engineers testing SIEM configurations
• Security analysts proving tool effectiveness
• CISOs needing to demonstrate security ROI

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Real-World Application:

• Validate Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk detection rules with real attack telemetry
• Test whether new MITRE ATT&CK techniques are detected in your environment
• Prove that expensive security tools are actually working
• Continuously validate detection coverage as cloud APIs change

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Learn more: Detection Validation Use Case

Learn more: Cloud Attack Emulation & Detection Engineering: A Match Made in Heaven

Learn more: Ultimate Combo: Cloud Attack Emulation meets Microsoft Sentinel

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4. ⚡ SOC Team Optimization (CAE + CSPM)

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Give your SOC team their time back, so they focus on the more important stuff

The Challenge:

• SOC teams overwhelmed with alert fatigue from false positives
• Can't distinguish between theoretical vulnerabilities and real exploitable risks
• Waste time investigating low-priority alerts
• Struggle to prioritize remediation efforts effectively

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How Mitigant Helps:

• Reduces alert noise by validating which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable (CAE)
• Prioritizes findings based on validated risk, not just CVSS scores
• Automates security validation that previously required manual red team exercises
• Provides clear, actionable remediation guidance (CSPM)
• Eliminates false positives by proving exploitability
• Empowers junior analysts to run sophisticated validation tests

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Who Benefits:

• Overwhelmed SOC teams
• Security operations managers
• Organizations with small security teams
• Teams drowning in vulnerability backlogs

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Real-World Application:

• CSPM identifies 500 findings → CAE validates 50 are exploitable → Focus on the 50
• Automatically validate whether CSPM findings are real threats or theoretical risks
• Stop wasting time on vulnerabilities that can't actually be exploited in your environment
• Free up senior analysts from repetitive validation tasks

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Learn more: SOC Team Optimization Use Case

Learn more: Demystifying The Most Pervasive Cloud Attack Techniques

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5. 📋 Continuous Compliance (CSPM + KSPM)

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Stay audit-ready, always—no longer a point in time

The Challenge:

• Traditional compliance assessments are point-in-time snapshots
• Cloud environments change constantly - yesterday's compliance doesn't guarantee today's
• Manual compliance checks are time-consuming and error-prone
• Difficult to maintain continuous evidence for auditors

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How Mitigant Helps:

• Continuous compliance monitoring across ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, CIS Benchmarks, BSI C5, NIS2
• Real-time detection of compliance violations and configuration drift
• Automated evidence collection for audits
• Clear remediation guidance with step-by-step instructions
• Multi-cloud compliance visibility in single dashboard
• Demonstrates proactive security validation (increasingly required by frameworks like DORA, NIS2)

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Who Benefits:

• Compliance teams
• Cloud architects maintaining security standards
• Organizations in regulated industries
• Security teams preparing for audits

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Real-World Application:

• Maintain continuous SOC 2 compliance rather than scrambling before audits
• Real-time alerts when configurations violate HIPAA requirements
• Automated evidence collection showing continuous monitoring
• Prove compliance across AWS and Azure from single platform

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Learn more: Continuous Compliance Use Case

Learn more: Navigating the Trifecta: Balancing Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Cyber Resilience

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6. 🎯 Incident Readiness (CAE)

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Practice makes perfect—ensure your incident response processes function effectively and not just on paper

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The Challenge:

• Incident response playbooks and runbooks are often theoretical and untested
• Teams don't know how they'll perform during a real incident until it happens
• Gap between documented IR procedures and actual execution under pressure
• Difficult to practice incident response without causing real incidents

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How Mitigant Helps:

• Proactively tests incident response capabilities through realistic attack scenarios
• Validates that IR playbooks and runbooks actually work in practice
• Provides realistic practice environment for IR teams without business risk
• Tests people, processes, and technology holistically
• Generates realistic attack telemetry for forensic analysis practice
• Enables tabletop exercises with real attack emulation instead of theoretical discussions

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Who Benefits:

• SOC teams preparing for incidents
• Incident response teams
• Security operations managers
• Organizations required to demonstrate IR readiness

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Real-World Application:

• Run simulated ransomware attacks to test detection, containment, and recovery procedures
• Practice forensic analysis with realistic attack telemetry from CAE
• Test escalation procedures and communication workflows under realistic conditions
• Validate that your IR team can actually execute the playbook steps
• Conduct gameday exercises to assess organizational readiness

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Learn more: Incident Readiness Use Case

Learn more: Leveraging Adversary Emulation for Effective Cloud Forensic Analysis

Watch: Getting Started with Security Chaos Engineering (Webinar)

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7. 🔄 Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (All Products)

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Implement Gartner's CTEM framework with validated, continuous security

The Challenge:

• Organizations struggle to implement Gartner's CTEM framework end-to-end
• Difficult to continuously validate which exposures are actually exploitable
• Gap between vulnerability identification and validated risk prioritization
• Point-in-time assessments don't work for continuously changing cloud environments

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How Mitigant Helps:

• Complete CTEM implementation across all five stages:
  1. Scoping: CSPM/KSPM provides complete asset visibility and attack surface mapping
  2. Discovery: Identifies misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, compliance gaps continuously
  3. Prioritization: CAE validates which exposures are exploitable (not just theoretical)
  4. Validation: Continuous attack emulation proves security controls actually work
  5. Mobilization: Automated remediation guidance, reporting, and team notifications

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Who Benefits:

• Security leadership implementing CTEM
• Risk management teams
• Organizations moving beyond traditional vulnerability management
• CISOs needing validated exposure metrics

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Real-World Application:

• Prioritize remediation based on validated exploitability, not just CVSS scores
• Demonstrate to leadership which risks are real vs. theoretical
• Reduce alert fatigue by focusing only on validated exposures
• Build metrics showing continuous improvement in security posture
• Shift from "we have 10,000 vulnerabilities" to "we have 50 validated exposures"

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Learn more: Cloud Attack Emulation 101: Shallow Waters - CTEM Integration

Learn more: What is Adversarial Exposure Validation

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How do these use cases work together?

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The seven use cases are interconnected and create a comprehensive security validation program:

Example Integrated Workflow:

1. Continuous Compliance (CSPM) identifies an overly permissive S3 bucket → compliance violation
2. Detection Validation (CAE) emulates an attack to test if your SIEM detects unauthorized access
3. SOC Team Optimization - CAE proves it's exploitable, so SOC prioritizes it (not just another alert)
4. Cloud Penetration Testing (CAE) - Run full attack chain to prove end-to-end exploitability
5. Incident Readiness (CAE) - IR team practices responding to this specific scenario
6. AI Red Teaming (CAE) - If S3 contains RAG data, test AI-specific attack vectors
7. CTEM - Framework ties everything together with continuous validation and mobilization

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The Result:

• Move from reactive firefighting to proactive validation
• Reduce security team burnout and alert fatigue
• Prove ROI on security tool investments
• Stay audit-ready continuously, not just at assessment time
• Build confidence that your defenses actually work

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This integrated approach transforms cloud security from checkbox compliance to evidence-based security validation.

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How does this help with compliance and audits?

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The Mitigant Platform strengthens your compliance posture:

Proactive Validation (CAE):

• Demonstrates you're not just checking boxes—you're validating effectiveness
• Shows auditors you test security controls continuously
• Increasingly required by frameworks like DORA and NIS2

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Continuous Compliance (CSPM/KSPM):

• Real-time monitoring against compliance frameworks
• Detect violations before audits
• Clear remediation steps provided

Audit Trails (All Products):

• Complete logging of all activities
• Evidence of security testing and validation
• Demonstrates due diligence in risk management

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Framework Coverage (All Products):

• Maps to multiple compliance requirements simultaneously
• Reduces audit preparation time
• Provides documentation auditors expect

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Learn more: Navigating the Trifecta: Balancing Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Cyber Resilience

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Can Mitigant CAE replace penetration testing?

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Mitigant CAE complements rather than replaces traditional penetration testing:

What Mitigant CAE Provides:

• Continuous validation: Daily/weekly instead of annual
• Automated execution: No manual scheduling of expensive engagements
• Instant results: Immediate feedback on security effectiveness
• Repeatable scenarios: Run the same test after remediation
• Affordable scale: Test continuously at fraction of pen test cost

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What Traditional Pen Testing Provides:

• Human creativity and intuition
• Custom attack chains for your unique environment
• Social engineering components
• Comprehensive reporting for executives
• Third-party validation for compliance

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Best Approach: Use Mitigant CAE for continuous validation between annual pen tests. This gives you:

• Ongoing assurance throughout the year
• Faster detection of new issues
• Validation that pen test findings were properly remediated
• Evidence that new deployments don't introduce vulnerabilities

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Many customers use Mitigant to make their pen tests more effective by identifying low-hanging fruit beforehand.

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Learn more: Leveraging Adversary Emulation for Effective Cloud Forensic Analysis

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