Frontier Adversary Defense Accelerator
Fixed price. Five days. A prioritized plan you can act on this quarter.
Exploitation now moves in days, not weeks. Verizon's 2026 DBIR puts vulnerability exploitation at the top breach vector; Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 marks the sixth straight year exploits led initial access. You can't out-patch that window. You can break the attacker's chain—disrupt any one link and the whole attack fails. The only question worth answering: which links hold today? Most organizations can't answer that. You're one week from knowing.
The Frontier AI Defense Accelerator is a fixed-price, five-day rapid screening assessment that measures your security program against the way adversaries actually operate today — not against last year's audit checklist. It is not a control audit, and it is not a penetration test. It is a structured diagnostic that surfaces where your defenses would hold under contact and what to fix first.
How it works
Three independent streams run in parallel, then converge:
| Stream | What we examine | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
| Tools you already own | Your security stack mapped technique-by-technique against the attack chain | Do you own something that could stop this — and is it actually turned on? |
| What attackers see | External attack surface, exposed infrastructure, credentials already circulating | Where would an attacker start? |
| Program and people | Structured diagnostic across ten security domains with your stakeholders | Would the program hold up under pressure? |
The chain we measure against. Fourteen techniques spanning the full intrusion lifecycle — initial access, execution, persistence, credential access, defense evasion, command and control, lateral movement, and impact. Selected against Verizon DBIR 2026 and Mandiant M-Trends 2026 as primary sources, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Every technique earns its place in current breach data.
The engagement
What you receive
- Risk Dossier — findings, scores, and the narrative for your board
- Chain-Break Analysis — technique-by-technique: what you disrupt, what you partially disrupt, and what walks straight through
- Stack Coverage Matrix — what your existing tools cover, and where the gaps are
- Prioritized Recommendations — tiered by how much attacker time each buys, for how little effort - detailed tool configurations and testing tuned to your cybersecurity tools.
Three measures you can report and re-measure: an exposure index (0–100), a chain-break score (how many of the fourteen links you can break today), and a maturity baseline anchored to NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls v8.1.
Chain Break Examples - detailed actions with exact config and test scripts | ||
Why it's different
- It measures effectiveness, not presence. A control marked "implemented" may be in audit-only mode or turned off for the systems that matter. The audit can't see that. The adversary can.
- It measures the chain, not the checklist. You can score well against a framework by being adequately strong everywhere. An attacker needs one chain to succeed end to end. Those are different tests.
- It's honest about the goal. We don't promise invulnerability. We promise time — and we rank every recommendation by how much of it you gain.
What to Expect
The Frontier AI Defense Accelerator is a fixed-price, five-day screening that measures your program against the way adversaries actually operate today — not against last year's audit checklist. We assess three things in parallel: the security tools you already own, what an attacker can see of you from the outside, and how your program and people would hold up under contact. Those converge into a single view of your attack chain.
- An exposure chain-break score showing how many of the fourteen techniques in the modern attack chain your environment can disrupt today index
- A maturity baseline anchored to NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, and CIS v8.1
- The plan is tiered by what buys you the most time for the least effort — starting with the controls you already own but haven't turned on.
- It won't make you invulnerable. It will tell you exactly where your chain breaks, where it doesn't, and what to fix first.
Benefits
- Identify the fastest path to reducing risk.
Understand exactly where an attack would succeed or fail in your environment, so you can prioritize the controls that matter most. - Maximize security impact without increasing spend.
Focus investments on the actions that slow attackers down the most, helping you reduce exposure faster and more efficiently. - Unlock value from technology you already own.
Reveal underutilized security capabilities and turn existing investments into measurable protection without additional budget. - Eliminate blind spots before attackers exploit them.
Discover exposed assets, forgotten infrastructure, and external risks that traditional internal assessments often miss. - Demonstrate measurable progress to leadership.
Gain defensible metrics that quantify exposure, track improvement over time, and support board-level reporting. - Get answers while they're still actionable.
Receive prioritized findings and recommendations in days, not months, with predictable scope and cost. - Align teams around a single view of risk.
Give security, IT, and executive leadership a shared understanding of where defenses are strong, where they're vulnerable, and what to do next.