Nclose announces partnership with AttackIQ to bring elevated breach and attack simulation platform to SA shores

Nclose, one of South Africa’s leading cyber security service providers, has expanded its arsenal, partnering with global leader in the breach and attack simulation (BAS) space, AttackIQ. Nclose – since its inception – has been perfecting its art of human-based detection capabilities. With AttackIQ onboard, this will allow the company to truly test the cyber security readiness of South African businesses like never before. AttackIQ – heavily aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and a founding research partner of MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat Informed Defense – uses advanced adversary emulation capabilities to test security programs and validate security controls against the landscape’s current and existing cyber threats.

“Nclose has been looking at breach and attack simulation technologies for some time and we just weren’t convinced with what we were seeing in the market,” said Stephen Osler, Co-founder and Business Development Director, Nclose. “We were exposed to AttackIQ through one of our clients, and something that immediately stood out was their team, and at Nclose, that’s the beating heart of what makes us who we are. They are as enthusiastic and passionate as we are. You could have honest conversations with them and see what they could deliver, backed up by a great tool and ability to deliver offence capability as promised,” Osler adds.

What can South African businesses expect? You have two niche businesses with a personal service delivery capability to your organisation. You are not just getting defensive capabilities, but the ability to put those capabilities to the test in a controlled environment from industry experts who specialise in what they do. With Nclose providing its clients with excellent detection capabilities and achieving cyber security maturity, it has reached a point where it can run intensive and regular attack simulations, which AttackIQ executes at a global standard.

“The strategic partnership we’re building with Nclose in the South African market is tremendously exciting, because their team understands that the biggest cyber security problem isn’t budgets, tooling or what the attackers do to get in. It’s that most organisations simply don’t test enough, which means that they lack sufficient real-time data metrics to consistently measure performance, and to accurately articulate how the business is performing from a cyber security perspective,” said John Brown, Senior Director Global Channels. “In order to build a threat-informed defence strategy, you need to think like the attacker and always be evaluating the potential outcomes of an attack. Fortune 10 to Global 2000 companies are at the cutting edge of automated testing and are adopting a threat-informed defence strategy. That’s why governments and intelligence agencies are starting to recommend that organisations automate the continuous testing of their cyber defences in production, at scale and aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which is exactly what AttackIQ does, and it’s this exciting journey that Nclose will be helping SA companies navigate.”