Security startup wages continuous war games against networks

Startup SafeBreach automatically assesses corporate networks to find out whether they offer up enough security loopholes for real-world attacks to succeed.

Using software probes called simulators distributed throughout customers’ networks, SafeBreach attempts to establish connections among devices and network segments just as a hacker would do in trying to carry out malicious activity.

These automated attempts are driven by the Hacker’s Playbook, a SafeBreach library of known attack methods that the simulators try in order to discover weaknesses and reveal how these vulnerabilities might be exploited to carry out successful breaches.

So simulators might find individual weaknesses in a desktop Internet connection, a credit card database and a management platform that could be strung together to nab customer credit card data. This would be reported on a single screen.

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