Security Control Assessment: Validate Security Tool Effectiveness
Overview
Security control assessment validates the effectiveness of your security tools, processes and defences against real-world cyber threats. Razorthorn’s security control assessment service tests your security infrastructure against thousands of current attack techniques, identifying gaps in threat detection, prevention capabilities and visibility across your environment.
Our comprehensive assessment simulates realistic attack scenarios including malware, ransomware, phishing, web application exploits and data exfiltration attempts. We evaluate your next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, SIEM platforms, EDR solutions and other security controls, measuring their ability to prevent, detect and respond to sophisticated threats. Assessment results map to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, providing clear visibility into coverage gaps and actionable remediation guidance.
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Questions Security Control Assessment Answers
How Effective Are Your Current Security Controls?
Understand whether your security investments actually protect against real-world threats. Our security control assessment validates that firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, endpoint protection and detection tools perform as expected when faced with actual attack techniques.
Can You Detect and Prevent Latest Threats?
Determine whether your security controls can identify and block current attack methods including zero-day exploits, ransomware variants and advanced persistent threat tactics. We test against continuously updated threat libraries reflecting the latest adversary techniques.
Where Are Your Critical Security Gaps?
Identify blind spots in threat detection and prevention capabilities. Our assessment pinpoints which attack vectors your current controls miss, which log sources lack coverage and where detection rules need improvement to close visibility gaps.
How Do You Measure Security Control Performance?
Translate technical security control effectiveness into business risk metrics. Our assessments provide clear reporting showing coverage across the MITRE ATT&CK framework, helping you communicate security posture to leadership and prioritise improvements based on actual risk.
Benefits of a Security Control Assessment
Identify security weaknesses and visibility blind spots
Validate the effectiveness of controls and processes
Address exposures with prevention signatures and detection rules
Rationalise cyber security investments through security validation
Optimise SIEM and EDR threat detection capabilities
Pre-acquisition assessments
Post-acquisition performance improvements
Assess new controls before purchase
The Razorthorn Approach to Security Control Assessments
1. Comprehensive Threat Library Testing
Our security control assessment draws from an extensive threat library containing over 11,000 real-world attack techniques, updated continuously to reflect the latest tactics, techniques and procedures. This comprehensive coverage includes:
- 7,000+ Malware attacks – Ransomware, trojans, rootkits and advanced malware variants
- 2,000+ Web application attacks – SQL injection, cross-site scripting, authentication bypass and API exploits
- 1,000+ Endpoint attacks – Privilege escalation, lateral movement and persistence techniques
- 900+ Atomic attacks – Individual MITRE ATT&CK technique validations
- 750+ Vulnerability exploits – Known CVEs and zero-day simulation
- 250+ Data exfiltration attacks – Testing detection of data theft and command-and-control communications
- 100+ Adversary scenarios – Complete attack chains mimicking real threat actor behaviours
2. Security Control Validation
We test the effectiveness of your security infrastructure against realistic attack simulations. Our assessment evaluates multiple security control categories:
Network Security Controls Testing next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention systems and web application firewalls to validate threat prevention capabilities, rule effectiveness and ability to block malicious traffic patterns.
Detection and Response Platforms Evaluating SIEM platforms, EDR solutions and endpoint protection to validate log source ingestion, detection rule accuracy, alerting effectiveness and threat visibility across your environment.
Prevention and Response Capabilities Measuring your security controls’ ability to prevent attacks before compromise, detect threats during execution and provide visibility enabling effective incident response.
3. MITRE ATT&CK Framework Mapping
All security control assessment results map to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, providing standardised visibility into your security posture. This mapping shows:
- Coverage across tactics (initial access, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, etc.)
- Technique-level visibility showing which specific attack methods you can prevent or detect
- Coverage gaps highlighting where additional controls or detection rules are needed
- Prioritised recommendations based on threat prevalence and business risk
4. Actionable Remediation and Optimisation
Following assessment, you receive comprehensive reports with practical recommendations for improving security control effectiveness:
Prevention Signatures and Detection Rules Access to a library of 70,000+ ready-to-apply prevention signatures and detection rules addressing identified gaps. These signatures integrate with your existing security tools, immediately improving threat coverage.
Configuration Optimisation Specific guidance for tuning security controls, improving detection accuracy and reducing false positives whilst ensuring genuine threats trigger appropriate alerts.
Telemetry and Log Source Recommendations Insights identifying which additional log sources or telemetry would improve threat visibility, helping you prioritise data collection and SIEM integration efforts.
Risk-Based Prioritisation Clear prioritisation of remediation activities based on threat likelihood, potential business impact and current coverage gaps, ensuring you address the most critical security weaknesses first.
Why Choose Razorthorn for Security Control Assessment?
18 Years of Security Testing Experience
Established in 2007, Razorthorn has extensive experience evaluating security controls across diverse environments and threat landscapes. Our consultants understand how security tools perform in real-world conditions and provide practical guidance based on hundreds of assessments.
CREST Accredited Security Testing
Razorthorn is CREST approved, demonstrating our commitment to professional standards in security testing. Our security control assessments follow rigorous methodologies ensuring comprehensive, reliable evaluation of your security infrastructure.
Continuously Updated Threat Intelligence
Our threat library updates daily with the latest attack techniques, adversary tactics and exploit methods. This ensures security control assessment reflects current threats rather than outdated attack patterns, validating your defences against the threats you actually face.
MITRE ATT&CK Framework Expertise
We provide deep expertise in the MITRE ATT&CK framework, helping you understand security posture through industry-standard terminology and prioritise improvements based on recognised adversary behaviours and techniques.
Practical, Actionable Recommendations
Security control assessment delivers immediately applicable improvements. We provide specific prevention signatures, detection rules and configuration guidance you can implement quickly, along with strategic recommendations for long-term security enhancement.
Security Control Assessment Enquiry
Validate the effectiveness of your security controls against real-world threats. Our experienced cybersecurity consultants assess your security infrastructure, identify gaps and provide actionable recommendations for improvement.
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