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Adversary Simulation

What is Adversary Simulation?

Security testing that emulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures of real-world threat actors to evaluate an organization's detection and response capabilities.

Information Security

What the standards actually require on adversary simulation

Requirements naming adversary simulation across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

The red-team provider drafts a Red Team Test Report detailing the scenarios executed, the attack paths, findings and observations.

TIBER-3.1 · Red Team Test Report

Safety (Anzen 安全) is the second of 10 Principles per Japan AI Guidelines for Business + significantly extended by establishment of the Japan AI Safety Institute (AISI 日本AIセーフティ・インスティテュート) on 14 February 2024.

JP-AIG-Safety-Validation-Testing-Robustness-AISI-AI-Safety-Institute-Pre-Deployment-Evaluation-Red-Teaming · Japan AI Guidelines Safety + Validation + Testing + Robustness + AISI AI Safety Institute (14 Feb 2024) + Pre-Deployment Evaluation + Red Teaming + Capability Evaluations + AI Incident Database + Safe Deployment + AI Safety Reports

HKMA C-RAF iCAST (Intelligence-led Cyber Attack Simulation Testing) - mandatory for HIGH inherent risk AIs + optional for medium tier + modeled on UK CBEST + ECB TIBER-EU (verified separately in this corpus) + intelligence-led red team testing methodology.

HKMA-CRAF-iCAST-RedTeam-PurpleTeam-IntelLed · HKMA C-RAF iCAST (Intelligence-Led Cyber Attack Simulation Testing) for HIGH Inherent Risk AIs

Vulnerability Management is a core technical control area per FSA Cybersecurity Guidelines. (1) Vulnerability Discovery: (a) Authenticated and Unauthenticated Scanning - Nessus + Qualys + Rapid7 + open source; (b) DAST Dynamic Application Security Testing;

JP-FSA-CYB-Vulnerability-Management-Patching-CVE-Risk-Based-Prioritisation-Penetration-Testing-Red-Team · Japan FSA Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management + Patching + CVE Tracking + Risk-Based Prioritisation + Penetration Testing + Red-Team + Bug Bounty + Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure + Zero-Day Response

Employ technical specialists to attempt to break into the organisation's networks (red teaming) to test defences.

ASIC-CR-DE-3 · Red teaming

Conduct red team operations and penetration testing on a regular basis to simulate real-world attacks and reveal risks that vulnerability scanning does not surface.

ASBv3-PV-7 · Conduct regular red team operations

Questions people ask about adversary simulation

What is Adversary Simulation?
Security testing that emulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures of real-world threat actors to evaluate an organization's detection and response capabilities.
Why is Adversary Simulation important for compliance?
Adversary Simulation is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding adversary simulation helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Adversary Simulation?
Adversary Simulation appears in the requirement text of ECB TIBER-EU Framework, Japan AI Guidelines, HKMA Cyber Resilience Assessment Framework (C-RAF), Japan FSA Cybersecurity Guidelines for Financial Institutions, ASIC Cyber Resilience Good Practices. Across these standards we have identified 24 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Adversary Simulation?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how adversary simulation applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.