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MITRE ATT&CK Assessment — Map Your Defenses to Real Adversary Behavior

Pick a real threat group. Execute their documented TTPs against your environment. Get an ATT&CK heatmap of what was caught, what was missed, and the specific detections to build next.

Why an ATT&CK-aligned engagement

A list of CVEs and CVSS scores does not tell you whether you can detect a real attack. The MITRE ATT&CK framework does — it catalogs the techniques actual threat groups use, and an ATT&CK assessment shows you which of those techniques succeed against your environment and which get caught.

If you have a SIEM, an EDR, a SOC (in-house or MSSP), or a cyber-insurance carrier asking pointed questions, you need an ATT&CK-aligned pentest. That is the gap this engagement fills.

What we assess

  • Initial access — phishing, exposed services, supply chain, valid accounts
  • Execution & persistence — scripting, services, scheduled tasks, registry
  • Privilege escalation — token theft, exploit-for-priv-esc, abuse elevation
  • Defense evasion — process injection, obfuscation, indicator removal
  • Credential access — dumping, brute force, password spraying
  • Discovery & lateral movement — network sniffing, remote services, pass-the-hash
  • Collection & exfiltration — staging, channel choice, encryption

Methodology

We pick the threat profile that matches your industry — FIN7 for retail, APT41 for tech, ransomware affiliates for everyone. We then execute that group's documented TTPs against your environment, in coordination with your blue team (purple-team mode) or unilaterally (red-team mode).

Every technique attempted is logged with timestamp, source, target, and detection outcome. The deliverable is an ATT&CK heatmap showing exactly which techniques succeeded, which were detected, which were blocked, and which slipped past your stack quietly.

Process & timeline

  1. Threat profile selection (1 week)
  2. Engagement letter + rules of engagement (1 week)
  3. Execution (2 to 4 weeks depending on scope)
  4. Draft report + purple-team debrief
  5. Final report + detection-gap remediation tracking

Deliverables

  • ATT&CK heatmap of techniques tested, succeeded, detected, and blocked
  • Per-technique evidence — logs, screenshots, payloads
  • Detection gap report with proposed alert rules
  • Tabletop debrief with security team
  • Executive summary + board-ready scorecard
  • Optional purple-team workshops to tune detections post-engagement
  • Attestation letter for cyber-insurance, auditors, or enterprise customers

Pricing

Fixed-fee per engagement. Typical MITRE ATT&CK assessment: $18k – $55k. Purple-team mode (continuous coordination with your defenders) at the higher end. Pure red-team (no coordination) at the lower end.

Reference engagements

Related work in production: an Active Directory pentest with documented attack chain mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and ProtectWithBri's web application coverage. Engagements served from Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, and Augusta.

FAQs

Is this a pentest or a red team?

It is closer to a red team or purple team, scoped to specific ATT&CK techniques rather than open-ended objective-based engagement. Most clients run it in purple-team mode so their defenders learn in real time.

Do you map findings to specific threat groups?

Yes. We pick a threat profile — real groups documented in ATT&CK — that matches your industry and threat model, and report results against those groups' actual TTPs.

Will this satisfy our cyber-insurance carrier?

ATT&CK-aligned assessments are increasingly the format insurers ask for. Our reports are formatted to drop into the response templates carriers use.

What if we do not have a SOC or EDR yet?

Then the assessment doubles as a baseline — it shows you which techniques succeed today and informs your detection-engineering roadmap. We have run this for clients building a security program from scratch.

Can you re-run the assessment annually?

Yes, and most ATT&CK clients put us on an annual cadence. Year-over-year heatmap trends are the cleanest way to show security program ROI to a board.

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Call William Beltz at (770) 652-1282 or book a scoping call. Purple-team or red-team, your call. Founder-led, audit-ready.