Use Cases & Benefits
What are the key use cases for the Mitigant Platform?
The Mitigant Platform addresses seven critical use cases across cloud security operations:
1. 🤖 AI Red Teaming (CAE + CSPM)
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
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)
Who Benefits:
- Organizations deploying GenAI services
- AI/ML engineering teams
- Data science teams using cloud AI services
- Security teams responsible for AI infrastructure
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
Learn more: AI Red Teaming Use Case
See platform: Cloud Attack Emulation for GenAI
2. ☁️ Cloud Penetration Testing (CAE)
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- Cloud environments change constantly - pen test results become outdated quickly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
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
Who Benefits:
- Cloud security teams
- DevSecOps engineers
- Organizations with rapid cloud deployment cycles
- Teams needing continuous validation between annual pen tests
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
Learn more: Cloud Penetration Testing Use Case
Learn more: Cloud Attack Emulation: Democratizing Security Operations
3. ✅ Detection Validation (CAE + CSPM)
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
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
Who Benefits:
- SOC teams validating detection rules
- Detection engineers testing SIEM configurations
- Security analysts proving tool effectiveness
- CISOs needing to demonstrate security ROI
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
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
4. ⚡ SOC Team Optimization (CAE + CSPM)
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
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
Who Benefits:
- Overwhelmed SOC teams
- Security operations managers
- Organizations with small security teams
- Teams drowning in vulnerability backlogs
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
Learn more: SOC Team Optimization Use Case
Learn more: Demystifying The Most Pervasive Cloud Attack Techniques
5. 📋 Continuous Compliance (CSPM + KSPM)
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
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)
Who Benefits:
- Compliance teams
- Cloud architects maintaining security standards
- Organizations in regulated industries
- Security teams preparing for audits
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
Learn more: Continuous Compliance Use Case
Learn more: Navigating the Trifecta: Balancing Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Cyber Resilience
6. 🎯 Incident Readiness (CAE)
Practice makes perfect—ensure your incident response processes function effectively and not just on paper
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
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
Who Benefits:
- SOC teams preparing for incidents
- Incident response teams
- Security operations managers
- Organizations required to demonstrate IR readiness
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
Learn more: Incident Readiness Use Case
Learn more: Leveraging Adversary Emulation for Effective Cloud Forensic Analysis
Watch: Getting Started with Security Chaos Engineering (Webinar)
7. 🔄 Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (All Products)
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
How Mitigant Helps:
- Complete CTEM implementation across all five stages:
- Scoping: CSPM/KSPM provides complete asset visibility and attack surface mapping
- Discovery: Identifies misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, compliance gaps continuously
- Prioritization: CAE validates which exposures are exploitable (not just theoretical)
- Validation: Continuous attack emulation proves security controls actually work
- Mobilization: Automated remediation guidance, reporting, and team notifications
Who Benefits:
- Security leadership implementing CTEM
- Risk management teams
- Organizations moving beyond traditional vulnerability management
- CISOs needing validated exposure metrics
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"
Learn more: Cloud Attack Emulation 101: Shallow Waters - CTEM Integration
Learn more: What is Adversarial Exposure Validation
How do these use cases work together?
The seven use cases are interconnected and create a comprehensive security validation program:
Example Integrated Workflow:
- Continuous Compliance (CSPM) identifies an overly permissive S3 bucket → compliance violation
- Detection Validation (CAE) emulates an attack to test if your SIEM detects unauthorized access
- SOC Team Optimization - CAE proves it's exploitable, so SOC prioritizes it (not just another alert)
- Cloud Penetration Testing (CAE) - Run full attack chain to prove end-to-end exploitability
- Incident Readiness (CAE) - IR team practices responding to this specific scenario
- AI Red Teaming (CAE) - If S3 contains RAG data, test AI-specific attack vectors
- CTEM - Framework ties everything together with continuous validation and mobilization
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
This integrated approach transforms cloud security from checkbox compliance to evidence-based security validation.
How does this help with compliance and audits?
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
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
Framework Coverage (All Products):
- Maps to multiple compliance requirements simultaneously
- Reduces audit preparation time
- Provides documentation auditors expect
Learn more: Navigating the Trifecta: Balancing Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Cyber Resilience
Can Mitigant CAE replace penetration testing?
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
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
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
Many customers use Mitigant to make their pen tests more effective by identifying low-hanging fruit beforehand.
Learn more: Leveraging Adversary Emulation for Effective Cloud Forensic Analysis