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Would you catch the threat actors who target you?

APT Simulation

Threat-intelligence-led simulations of the advanced threat groups that target your sector, measuring whether your defenses would detect and contain them.

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// Why MalTrak

What makes this engagement different

  • Intelligence-led scenarios

    We select the threat groups most relevant to your industry and region, based on publicly documented campaigns and reporting.

  • Technique-by-technique coverage

    Each documented behavior is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and tested, giving you a clear coverage map rather than a single pass or fail.

  • Measured, not assumed

    We record what your tooling logged, alerted on, and missed, so detection coverage is backed by evidence.

  • Repeatable over time

    The same scenario can be replayed after improvements to show measurable progress to leadership.

// Overview

What it is

An APT simulation answers a specific question: if the threat groups that target organizations like yours turned their attention to you, would your defenses notice?

We take the publicly documented behavior of relevant advanced threat actors and replay it safely in your environment. The result is a measured, technique-by-technique view of what your security stack sees and what it misses.

Who it is for

  • Security teams that want evidence-based detection coverage rather than vendor claims.
  • Organizations in sectors that are regularly targeted by advanced threat groups.
  • Leadership teams that need a clear, repeatable measure of security progress.

How we approach it

Our team spends its time researching how advanced threat actors operate and teaching those techniques to defenders. We use that experience to build realistic, intelligence-led scenarios rather than generic test scripts.

Simulations are typically run collaboratively with your defenders. After each step, we check together whether it appeared in your logs, whether an alert fired, and whether an analyst would have acted on it. That turns a security test into a working session that leaves your detection engineering stronger.

APT simulation vs. red teaming vs. penetration testing

  • Penetration testing finds what is vulnerable in a defined scope.
  • Red teaming tests whether an attacker can reach a specific objective unnoticed.
  • APT simulation measures detection coverage against the behavior of a specific threat actor.

Get started

Tell us about your sector and security operations, and we will propose the threat profiles and scenarios that make sense. Contact us to plan an APT simulation.

// How it works

Our engagement process

A clear, predictable engagement in 6 phases. You always know what is happening and what comes next.

  1. Step 1: Threat profiling

    We identify the threat actors most likely to target your organization and review their documented behavior.

  2. Step 2: Scenario design

    We build a simulation plan around those behaviors, agreed with your team and adapted to your environment.

  3. Step 3: Collaborative execution

    We run the scenario in coordination with your defenders, step by step, so every behavior can be checked against your telemetry.

  4. Step 4: Detection review

    For each step we confirm whether it was logged, alerted on, or missed, and why.

  5. Step 5: Reporting and coverage map

    You receive an ATT&CK coverage map, gap analysis, and prioritized detection improvements.

  6. Step 6: Retest

    After improvements are deployed, we replay the scenario to validate that the gaps are closed.

// Deliverables

What you receive

  • Threat profile of the actors relevant to your organization
  • MITRE ATT&CK coverage map showing detected and missed behaviors
  • Detection gap analysis with root causes
  • Prioritized detection engineering recommendations
  • Executive summary of exposure to the selected threat
  • Retest to confirm improvements

// FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How is APT simulation different from red teaming?

Red teaming is covert and objective-driven. APT simulation is usually collaborative and focused on coverage, replaying a specific threat actor's documented behavior so your team can check each step against its detections.

Which threat groups do you simulate?

The ones that matter to you. We base selection on your industry, geography, and technology stack, using publicly available threat intelligence.

Do we need a mature SOC for this?

It helps to have central logging and some monitoring in place. The simulation is most valuable when there is a team that can act on the gap analysis afterwards.

Is it safe to run in production?

Yes. Scenarios are agreed in advance, run under strict controls, and avoid destructive actions. Your team is involved throughout.

// Scoped to your environment

Ready to plan your APT Simulation engagement?

Tell us about your environment and goals. We will come back with a proposed scope, timeline, and rules of engagement, no obligation.

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