Challenge the Organization: Adversary Simulation & TLPT Readiness

Definition of services, capabilities, and organizational elements to be prepared for threat-led testing

• Critical or important business services and supporting ICT assets
• Key identities and access paths, including user, admin, and service accounts
• Supporting infrastructure, applications, cloud services, and third-party dependencies
• Detection and response functions, including SOC, incident response, IT operations, and management escalation
• Control Team roles, communication paths, pause criteria, and decision points
• Evidence, reporting, replay, and remediation expectations

Design and execution of controlled, threat-informed exercises

• TLPT-readiness assessment against selected DORA and TIBER-EU concepts
• TIBER-style non-formal exercises without representing the engagement as formal TLPT
• Scenario design based on relevant threat behaviour and realistic attacker objectives
• Controlled adversary simulation across selected attack stages
• Detection validation using mapped attacker techniques and expected telemetry
• Purple Team replay with SOC, incident-response, and security-engineering teams
• Technique mapping to MITRE ATT&CK for transparency and coverage

Execution is controlled by agreed scope, safety boundaries, escalation paths, and stop / go criteria.

Assessment of organizational readiness for advanced threat-led testing

• Gaps in detection, visibility, response, and escalation
• Weaknesses in Control Team preparation and exercise governance
• Attack narratives showing what happened, what was detected, and what was missed
• Evidence-chain quality and replay readiness
• Remediation priorities and validation opportunities
• Practical observations on whether the organization is ready for more advanced threat-led testing

The output focuses on readiness improvement, not on claiming formal DORA TLPT completion.

Supports alignment with

• DORA TLPT concepts for advanced resilience testing of selected financial entities
• TIBER-EU concepts for controlled threat-intelligence-based ethical red-team testing
• MITRE ATT&CK for structured adversary behaviour and coverage mapping
• NIST CSF for detection, response, recovery, and resilience validation
• ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002 for operational security, incident management, evidence handling, and continual improvement
• NIS2 expectations for cybersecurity risk management and incident response readiness

SPARK42 does not position this service as formal DORA TLPT or TIBER-EU accredited testing. The service helps organizations prepare for such testing by improving scope discipline, Control Team readiness, safe execution, evidence quality, detection validation, replay, remediation, and governance.