e2e-assure & Validato partner to enhance cyber resilience

Managed threat detection and response provider e2e-assure has partnered with threat informed defence platform Validato to enable businesses to assess and optimise their cyber security resilience in the face of emerging threats.

The collaboration aims to provide organisations with tools to evaluate the potential impact of new and evolving cyber threats and to identify any weaknesses in their current cyber defence strategies.

Through the partnership, businesses will be able to test, verify, and refine the effectiveness of their current security controls and detection capabilities. By leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework to simulate actual cyber threats, the solution promises to offer full visibility into organisations' defence postures as well as a roadmap for addressing vulnerabilities and enhancing overall security infrastructure.

e2e-assure has described this approach as 'Breach Disruption Validation', which will help organisations expose vulnerabilities, including misconfigurations and over-privileged user accounts, before they can be exploited by attackers.

Dominic Carroll, Director of Portfolio at e2e-assure, commented: "The partnership provides businesses with full clarity of their cyber security posture, guiding them to ensure they are a harder target for cyber criminals. Security coverage is perishable. With cyber attackers increasingly leveraging technology such as AI to increase the sophistication of threats, this real-time posture checking is more important than ever.

Carroll said, "We talk a lot at e2e-assure about Attack Disruption. This partnership with Validato allows us to validate that. It also supports growing regulatory demands under The Cyber Resilience Act and DORA, where validation at this level is becoming a requirement, not a luxury."

The partnership responds to a changing regulatory and threat landscape where continuous validation is increasingly prioritised over periodic assessments.

Ronan Lavelle, Chief Executive Officer of Validato, said: "Traditionally security testing has been very 'point in time', through processes such as penetration testing. The threat landscape however is changing every day, and there is a real requirement to have a more regular and continuous view on how a company's security posture is validated against the current landscape."

"We're pleased to form this partnership with e2e-assure, a company which shares our core values regarding the importance of taking a preventative approach to cyber security, tuning and hardening an environment, to block threat actors prior to access."

e2e-assure's 'Cyber Resilience 2025: Futureproofing AI Adoption' report indicates an increased need for enhanced threat intelligence and improvement in alert tuning among businesses. According to the report, 46% of organisations are only 'somewhat confident' with their current use of threat intelligence in their cyber security provisions. Additionally, 90% of cyber risk owners stated they had experienced a cyber attack in 2024, an increase from 75% in 2023.

The collaboration between e2e-assure and Validato aims to allow organisations to benefit from ongoing adversary simulation, helping to address these concerns by integrating continuous validation into existing SOC (Security Operations Centre) operations and enabling the identification of vulnerabilities on a continual basis.

Using the MITRE ATT&CK framework, the approach will simulate real-world threat behaviours across various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Mac. This will facilitate the detection of exposures such as misconfigurations and excessive user privileges ahead of potential exploits.

Both e2e-assure and Validato are focused on supporting businesses as they adapt to the changing cyber risk and regulatory landscape, ensuring that defences remain relevant and effective against currently active and future threats.