AttackIQ declared that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Acumen Cyber to work together in helping organizations enhance cyber resilience through continuous validation of security controls and real-world threat exposure. The partnership merges AttackIQ’s adversary-informed Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform with Acumen Cyber’s engineering-led security operations expertise to offer an innovative, proactive approach to modern cyber defense.
As cybercriminals are increasingly using AI to speed up attacks and vulnerabilities exploitation at a rate which is faster than organizations’ response, the conventional security methods which First and foremost rely on vulnerability counts and infrequent assessments are no longer sufficient. The new collaboration intends to tackle this issue by empowering companies to continuously discover the most dangerous attack paths, evaluate defense efficiency, and focus on remediation changes per real risk rather than theoretical exposure.
By integrating AttackIQ’s CTEM capabilities into its service offerings, Acumen Cyber will help customers move toward an evidence-based security model focused on measurable resilience outcomes. The approach includes validating security controls against real-world adversary techniques, identifying exploitable attack paths, and determining how vulnerabilities, identity risks, and configuration issues can combine to create opportunities for attackers.
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“Cybersecurity teams are overwhelmed with findings, yet many organisations still struggle to understand where they are truly exposed,” said Carl Wright, Chief Commercial Officer at AttackIQ. “Threat Debt changes the conversation from managing lists of vulnerabilities to understanding and reducing accumulated adversary opportunity. Acumen Cyber’s engineering-led approach makes them an ideal partner to help customers operationalise CTEM in a way that continuously validates defences, prioritises what matters most, and proves measurable reduction in attacker opportunity over time.”
The partnership also leverages adversary emulation techniques aligned with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK® to test whether security controls can effectively prevent and detect real attack methods. According to Acumen Cyber, the focus is on measuring outcomes rather than simply tracking security activities.
“Most organisations still operate security programs built around activity metrics instead of validated outcomes,” said Mark Robertson, CEO at Acumen Cyber. “The reality is that adversaries exploit paths, not isolated findings. Our partnership with AttackIQ allows us to help customers continuously identify where attacker opportunity exists, validate whether defensive controls actually work under real-world conditions, and systematically reduce Threat Debt before those paths can be exploited.”
Together, the companies aim to help organizations better understand and reduce cyber risk by continuously measuring and minimizing exploitable attacker opportunities across their environments.