AttackIQ announced the launch of its Preactive Security Exchange (PSE), an objective and trusted platform on which security vendors can demonstrate the value and efficacy of their products, as well as identify opportunities to improve solutions. BlackBerry, Cisco, Illumio, LogRhythm, Microsoft, RSA, and SentinelOne are among the dozens of inaugural vendor partners of the PSE, working together to improve the effectiveness of the security tools available on the market today.

"With the launch of the PSE, AttackIQ has set forth a mission of fixing enterprise security through honest, open collaboration with any security controls vendors willing to work with us to better understand how to test their products, for the benefit of our mutual customers," says Dariush Afshar, VP Platform, AttackIQ. "This initiative will enhance our ability to accurately measure the effectiveness of security controls within the customer environment and help vendors tune their products to better deliver on promises, and in turn, better protect their enterprise. We're pleased to see such a positive response from the vendor community, with so many controls integrated at launch - and growing quickly."

Based on conversations with countless enterprise customers over the years, the PSE was created to mitigate fatigue and frustration when navigating the increasingly confusing and crowded security controls industry landscape. The Ponemon Institute 2019 Research Report found enterprise customers spend on average $18.4 million annually on cybersecurity and deploy 47 different security products. Yet 53% admitted they do not know how well the cybersecurity tools they have deployed are working. Additionally, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 82% of successful breaches should have been stopped by existing security controls. Organizations must be certain their security measures can effectively prevent critical infrastructure disruption. AttackIQ operationalizes the MITRE ATT&CK database of known attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and helps customers assess the ability of their security stack to prevent, detect and contain real-world threats.

"At AttackIQ, we believe deeply in industry collaboration as evidenced by our work with the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense. Now, with the Preactive Security Exchange, we have created another way for the security industry to collaborate for the benefit of our mutual customers' success," says Brett Galloway, CEO of AttackIQ. "We are incredibly grateful for the recognition of our value received from the inaugural group of PSE members, and look forward to deepening our engagement with each of them as we elevate the security posture of our customers together."

To coincide with PSE and offer their partners effortless integration, AttackIQ is releasing a set of REST APIs. As an API-first company, AttackIQ is committed to respecting customers' existing investments and helping them gain unprecedented visibility into their own technology stack. The PSE's cross-category approach reflects the broad set of investments customers make to secure their enterprises. In fact, the PSE has already developed collaborative relationships involving custom health check assessments with controls vendors in the following categories: Endpoint Detection Response (EDR), Firewall, Secure Web Gateway, SOAR, CASB, Vulnerability Management, Logging and Analytics, Network Detection and Response (NDR), Network Virtualization, IDS/IPS, ITSM, Cloud Service Providers, SIEMs, Operational Technology (OT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), and others.

To learn more about AttackIQ's Preactive Security Exchange, please visit https://www.attackiq.com/pse.