MITRE ATT&CK is the global knowledge base of real adversary tactics and techniques. QSECS emulates those techniques against your environment — from initial access through exfiltration — to test not just whether you're vulnerable, but whether you can detect and respond when it matters.
We map the full attack lifecycle to ATT&CK tactics, exercising the techniques most relevant to your threat model.
MITRE ATT&CK catalogues how real adversaries actually operate, organised into the tactics and techniques observed across thousands of intrusions. It has become the common language for describing attacker behavior and measuring defensive coverage.
QSECS uses ATT&CK to move beyond 'are we vulnerable?' to 'can we see and stop an attack in progress?'. We emulate the techniques of the threat groups most likely to target you, then map exactly where your detection and response held — and where it didn't.
Initial access and execution — phishing, exploitation of public-facing apps and valid-account abuse
Persistence and privilege escalation across hosts, identities and cloud roles
Defense evasion, credential access and discovery techniques used by real intrusion sets
Lateral movement through your network, SaaS and cloud estate toward high-value targets
Collection, command-and-control and exfiltration — testing whether sensitive data can actually leave
Adversaries Won't Wait for the 2030 Deadline
MITRE ATT&CK maps how real adversaries operate — and "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" is already an active technique, with attackers collecting encrypted data today to break it later. Executive Order 14412, "Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks," makes the response a legal obligation for federal systems: post-quantum key establishment by December 31, 2030 and digital signatures by December 31, 2031. Continuously emulating those tactics against your environment is the only way to know you will meet the deadline. With QRedSentinel emulating those tactics continuously, you get a live read on your exposure instead of a snapshot that is stale the day it is written.
We run intelligence-led emulation that mirrors the adversaries most likely to target your sector.
We select techniques from ATT&CK groups whose targeting profile matches your industry and exposure
We exercise the full kill chain so you see how isolated weaknesses combine into a full compromise
We measure detection and response, giving your Blue Team concrete coverage gaps mapped to ATT&CK technique IDs
We provide Generative AI-supported detection and remediation guidance to close the gaps we exploit
We retest priority techniques to confirm both the vulnerability and the visibility gap are resolved