Red Canary 2023 Global Top Threats Available to Test in Validato
Validato is happy to announce that it has added the Red Canary Top Threats, as published in the Red Canary 2023 Threat Detection Report, to the Validato platform. This allows Validato customers to instantly test and validate their security control effectiveness and detection capabilities against this list of threats.
Who is Red Canary?
Red Canary is a leading Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service provider, who also conduct awesome threat based research which they frequently share with the community.
What is the Red Canary 2023 Threat Detection Report?
The Red Canary Threat Detection report is an annual report published by Red Canary’s team that summarizes the key threats and behaviors as witnessed by the Red Canary team. The Red Canary 2023 Threat Detection Report can be found here. The report is not only a great resource for understanding the most used and exploited offensive behaviors that can be used to harden defenses, but also to fine-tune SOC detections to ensure that security teams are able to see and detect these activities early.
How can you simulate the Red Canary 2023 top threats in Validato?
Validato is a security controls validation platform that safely simulates MITRE ATT&CK techniques in order to test and validate the effectiveness of security controls and detection capabilities. Our team has added the Red Canary 2023 top threats as a threat scenario in the Validato platform. For Validato customers, all they need to do to run this scenario and to test company defenses against the associated attacker techniques, is to select the scenario and press run:

Validato – Red Canary 2023 Top Techniques – scenario
Once the scenario is running – this is designed to be run in live production environments without causing any damage or disruption to the network, the results will be available for analysis within an hour or so.

Validato – Red Canary 2023 Top Techniques – results
Results can also be displayed graphically in a MITRE ATT&CK view to understand where protection and detection gaps may still exist:

Validato – Red Canary 2023 Top Techniques – Results in MITRE ATT&CK view
To understand more about how you can test your cyber defenses against the Red Canary top threats and hundreds more other threat scenarios, based off MITRE ATT&CK, get in touch with the Validato team here.