Alert: Your Security Stack is Only As Strong as the People Operating It

A breach itself isn’t really the most dangerous moment for a security manager. It comes after: it’s the realization that your team is seeing a sophisticated attack for the first time while the incident is happening, LIVE. When an adversary like APT33 hits your network, you need to know your analysts can distinguish between background noise and a targeted wiper campaign.

Investing in top-tier tools will only get you so far. If your team hasn't practiced the investigative steps and hand-offs required to catch a state-sponsored actor, that investment is wasted. 

This is where Immersive One’s Dynamic Threat Range capability plays a crucial role in your cyber resilience strategy. It provides a live-fire, high-fidelity environment that integrates with your own SIEM, mirroring the complexity of your actual network. This approach enables you to validate that your people and tools are working hand in glove, improving your Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) before a real threat hits your production network.

Introducing Orchid Fusion: APT33, Our Latest Dynamic Threat Range Simulation

The stakes shifted again recently for organizations in Aerospace, Energy, and Government sectors. The state-sponsored APT33 organization now prioritizes quiet espionage over noisy sabotage, systematically targeting the identity layer to gain regional economic leverage.

With the release of our latest exercise, Orchid Fusion: APT33, customers can benchmark team performance as they hunt this sophisticated threat. If your SOC is only watching traditional perimeter alerts, it’s missing the lateral movement occurring in your cloud identity layer. This exercise closes those blind spots.

Validating Your Defense Through a Live-Fire APT33 Simulation

Our newest Orchid Fusion exercise delivers a live-fire simulation that challenges teams to prove their skill against APT33’s latest tactics. Teams are thrown into a dynamic, reactive environment where they must hunt for custom-coded backdoors while navigating the noise of identity-based cloud intrusions. 

During this exercise, your team is required to identify and neutralize the specific TTPs used by APT33, providing an immediate benchmark of their ability to:

• Detect advanced backdoors (T1133): Analysts must detect persistence mechanisms designed to bypass standard perimeter defenses.
• Intercept privilege escalation (T1548) and Token Impersonation (T1134): Teams are tested on their ability to spot an actor moving laterally by mimicking legitimate users—the most common way sophisticated actors evade detection.
• Identify exfiltration (T1048): Analysts must flag attempts to exfiltrate intellectual property before the actor pivots to a destructive wiper attack.

This dynamic simulation equips you to measure your defenders’ effectiveness without risking your production environment. You get an objective look at where your detection rules are failing and exactly where your analysts lose the trail during a multi-stage attack, giving you a step-by-step outline of how to improve your team’s response.

Get the Performance Data You Need to Prove Your Cyber Readiness

In cybersecurity, uncertainty is a liability. While cyber range exercises are vital for building individual skills by replaying past attacks in a controlled environment, our Dynamic Threat Range capability is designed for live-fire validation of your organization's resilience. In this live attack scenario, there is no single path forward. The outcome depends entirely on your team’s real-time performance, challenging them to adapt to an adversary that fights back. 

Dynamic Threat Range allows you to test your team using your own SIEM, ensuring the skills they develop translate directly to your daily operations. In addition, it provides the objective metrics you need to ensure the team is performing at the highest level, specifically benchmarking Time to Detect and Time to Escalate. 

This level of insight equips you to improve your organization’s cyber readiness, shifting the focus from individual accuracy to the efficacy of your entire defensive ecosystem. It is the only way to move from on-paper compliance to a battle-tested SOC that can stop a state-sponsored actor in their tracks.

Get Started

• Existing Customers: Orchid Fusion: APT33 is now available to all Immersive One customers leveraging our Dynamic Threat Range capability. Simply log in to schedule your exercise.
• New to Immersive or our Dynamic Threat Range capability? Reach out to your Customer Success Manager directly or book a demo to discover how high-fidelity simulations can transform your team's readiness.

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