Pressure Test Your Team Before Mustang Panda Tests Your Defenses

Security Operations and Incident Response leaders know that theoretical knowledge of APT techniques rarely survives first contact with a live environment. The bottleneck isn't caused by a lack of talent; it’s more like an infrastructure tax—the cost that comes from the operational slog of building, breaking, and resetting complex Windows AD environments just to validate a single detection.

Most enterprise IR teams can't afford a 10:1 ratio of lab setup to actual hunting. This resource drain forces reliance on tabletop exercises that lack the high-fidelity telemetry needed to prove a SOC’s actual combat readiness. You’re left with a team that is compliant on paper, but untested against a nation-state’s stealth.

Immersive One's Dynamic Threat Range eliminates this friction. By replacing manual builds with instant, adversary-driven environments, we provide a continuous pressure test for your hunters. This means you can stop building labs and start proving your team can outmaneuver today’s most persistent threats.

Expanding Dynamic Threat Range’s Live-Fire Arsenal with Orchid Corp: Mustang Panda

Replicating a persistent threat actor used to require weeks of manual engineering and custom malware staging. The release of Orchid Corp: Mustang Panda removes this bottleneck, enabling you to deploy a fully automated, 8-stage attack chain with one click. This means your analysts can move straight to the investigation without the friction of lab maintenance; for you, it reclaims time spent on training setup and reinvests it into proving defensive cyber readiness. By automating the transition from initial spearphishing to full domain compromise, your team can finally focus on high-value hunting rather than environment plumbing.

With this release, Immersive One customers can:

Identify Detection Gaps Before They Become Breaches

Validating your SIEM logic requires live-fire telemetry, not another table-top exercise. This new simulation enables you to validate hunting and detection capabilities against 30+ MITRE ATT&CK techniques observed in actual Mustang Panda campaigns. You can see exactly how real-world tradecraft—like signed binary proxy execution—appears in your logs. This allows you to quantify your defensive efficacy by identifying holes in your Splunk or Elastic logic before a real adversary finds them for you.

Exercise Against Actual Adversarial Tools

Theoretical indicators of compromise are no substitute for the artifacts left by a real adversary. By replicating the exact ToneShell backdoor and DLL-sideloading techniques used by Mustang Panda in the wild, this simulation enables your team to hunt for the specific footprints of a nation-state actor. As the environment generates real-time telemetry from process injection and log-clearing activities within a live Windows forest, your analysts are forced to identify lateral movement amidst the noise of a realistic network. This ensures that when these techniques appear in your production logs, your team has already seen and stopped them in a sandbox.

Harden Incident Response Workflows

Checking a box during a tabletop exercise is not the same as neutralizing an active threat. This simulation provides the grit of a real-world breach, challenging your team to respond to credential theft and persistent access when the clock is running. By facing a live adversary in a safe, sandboxed environment, your analysts move beyond static procedures to execute high-stakes forensic workflows. This approach builds the composure and muscle memory required to maintain precision during a crisis, ensuring your incident response plan is a battle-tested reality. When your workflows are tested at this level, you move beyond anecdotal evidence to verifiable proof of readiness.

Prove Readiness with Live-Fire Data, Only On Immersive One

Security leaders can’t validate their teams’ readiness against threat actors like Mustang Panda if exercises are scripted with guaranteed outcomes. Immersive One’s Dynamic Threat Range capability replaces predictability with realism, which is the only way to truly measure how your defense performs under pressure. By providing a live, reactive environment, Immersive One forces your team to adapt to an adversary that actually fights back. 

Your team needs to battle in a sandbox before everything is on the line—with much less setup time involved. Integrating Orchid Corp simulations with the same tools you use in production ensures you can seamlessly and proactively stress-test your entire defensive ecosystem—your people, processes, and tools—against actual nation-state tradecraft. With Immersive One, you get the objective telemetry required for audited proof of key resilience metrics, like Mean Time to Respond (MTTR). As attack speed sophistication scales, verifiable competence is the only path forward. Anything less is just false confidence, and that’s a risk no organization can afford.   

Get Started

• Existing Customers: Log in to the Immersive One platform to schedule the Orchid Corp: Mustang Panda exercise as part of your quarterly readiness plan.
• New to Immersive? Book a demo to see how Dynamic Threat Range equips you to prove your SOC team’s cyber readiness by exercising your team against real threats in a high-fidelity replica of your own enterprise network.

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