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Mandiant Advantage Security Validation

Score8.3 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Mandiant Advantage Security Validation?

Since 2004, Mandiant has been a partner to security-conscious organizations. Mandiant’s approach helps organizations develop more effective and efficient cyber security programs and instills confidence in their readiness to defend against and respond to cyber threats.

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Screenshot of SECURITY VALIDATION PLATFORM - Visualize and generate performance data on how security controls across  people, process and technologies respond to active adversary attacks
Screenshot of Threat Actor Assurance Dashboard- Visualize how your security controls perform against real threat actor TTPs by operationalizing threat intelligence source.

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Screenshot of SECURITY VALIDATION PLATFORM - Visualize and generate performance data on how security controls across people, process and technologies respond to active adversary attacks

One of the best security validation provider in the industry

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mandiant provides assurance about current security posture of an organisation with the best practices. In the cyber security world, there are plethora of cyber security companies and tools available but Mandiant stands out among them because of their good technology and people expertise. It helps us in continuously measure and valudate our security effectiveness against adversaries.

Pros

  • Testing of security controls
  • Mitigation of Risk
  • Return of investment

Cons

  • Manpower Cost
  • More emphasis on automated testing comparison to manual testing
  • Need more emphasis on simulation of real world attacks

Return on Investment

  • Helps achieving compliance objectives
  • Increase in stakeholders trust on their personal data security
  • Compliance with internal policies and external regulations
  • Increase return on investment

Alternatives Considered

Cymulate

Usability

Other Software Used

Tenable Vulnerability Management, SAP Ariba Procurement, Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform

Really solid and helpful time saver for security, but could be better

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We need to get a full look across all networks to improve our visibility and identify all attack surfaces vs our controls in-place to protect against them. Getting clear visibility to where threats are due to any type of control deficiency - unpatched vulnerability, IT scope creep, unauthorized system added to our network, etc. Super helpful!

Pros

  • Network visibility
  • Scaling
  • Threat Intel
  • Monitoring

Cons

  • Portal / Dashboard
  • Integration across tools
  • System resources efficiency

Return on Investment

  • High ROI
  • Great visibility
  • Resource Intensive

Alternatives Considered

Cortex Xpanse by Palo Alto Networks

Usability

Other Software Used

Cortex Xpanse by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Business, CrowdStrike Falcon

Help us to improve our security

Pros

  • The product's simulated attack tests helped identify security gaps in company networks.
  • Helped finding drifts in security controls and IT environment.
  • Provided actual data to support decision making.

Cons

  • We had some software confliction issue during install.

Return on Investment

  • Help data-driven and informed decision making.
  • Improve company security postures.
  • Visualization

Alternatives Considered

Nmap

Usability

Other Software Used

Nmap