Prove Your Defenses Stop What Attackers Actually Do
Most organizations validate security with annual pentests, episodic red team exercises, and playbook-driven simulations. Attackers innovate daily. Your validation shouldn't wait six months to catch up.
Root Access Protection delivers continuous threat emulation and threat hunting powered by observed attacker methodology, not outdated playbooks. We test whether your defenses can stop how adversaries actually operate today, not how your tools assume they do.
This is security validation with discipline, evidence, and no surprises.
Clarification
WHAT WE ARE NOT
We do not fit into the existing vendor taxonomy, and that's by design.
Root Access Protection is a continuous security validation and threat hunting firm that tests your defenses against observed attacker behavior, under disciplined rules of engagement, with evidence-focused outcomes.
Evidence
WHY CURRENT PRACTICES FAIL
The gap between security validation and real-world breach is measurable, well-documented, and getting worse.
Organizations Pass Audits, Then Get Breached
Change Healthcare (February 2024): The breach that exposed protected health information for over 100 million individuals occurred despite UnitedHealth's compliance with industry standards. Attackers used stolen Citrix credentials to access systems that lacked multi-factor authentication. According to Congressional testimony, the breach was preventable with basic controls, yet it resulted in a $22 million ransom payment and months of operational disruption. The Nebraska Attorney General's lawsuit alleged that Change Healthcare failed to implement industry-standard security safeguards and network segmentation, both testable through proper validation.
The compliance-breach paradox: A 2025 study found that 67% of enterprises experienced a data breach within the past two years, despite 45% increasing their security stack to an average of 75 tools. Organizations are rich in tools but poor in validation.
The pentest blind spot: 51% of enterprises reported a breach in the last 24 months, many involving vulnerabilities that penetration testing failed to identify or address. When pentests focus on compliance checklists rather than real-world attack paths, organizations "pass" their audit and get breached the next week.
BAS Tools Miss What Matters
Breach and Attack Simulation platforms test against MITRE ATT&CK playbooks, not observed attacker methodology. This creates false confidence.
A 2024 SANS survey found that over 60% of security teams lack the in-house expertise to interpret BAS results or customize test cases, leaving them vulnerable to blind spots and false positives. BAS tools are only as current as the TTPs they simulate. If your platform isn't ingesting fresh threat intelligence, you're testing against last year's threats and missing today's.
The result: BAS campaigns show green while real attackers succeed using techniques that were never modeled.
Threat Hunting Hits a Maturity Ceiling
Most organizations face constrained hunting environments. Legacy SIEMs with IOC-only search capabilities, fixed telemetry schemas, and shallow query depth create a hard ceiling on hunting maturity.
According to industry research, 58% of organizations say vulnerability detection is harder than before due to expanding attack surfaces, yet traditional hunting approaches require schema control, behavioral queries, and enrichment pipelines that most environments simply don't have.
Without the ability to "outsmart the data" through recursive pivoting, hypothesis generation, and external intelligence integration, even skilled hunters miss activity that lives in the blind spots of their tooling.
Why This Matters
The time between attacker innovation and defender validation has widened from weeks to months. Annual pentests are stale within weeks of delivery. Red team exercises are episodic and expensive. BAS tools simulate techniques, not methodology. Threat hunting programs plateau when telemetry is constrained.
This isn't a vendor problem. This is a validation gap.
Root Access Protection compresses that gap by capturing real attacker methodology from the wild, continuously validating whether it would succeed in your environment, and elevating hunting maturity even when telemetry is limited.
We test the defenses you have, against the threats that exist, at the tempo attackers operate.
What Is Root Access Protection?
Root Access Protection is a continuous security validation and threat hunting firm powered by an adversary reasoning platform. At its core, the platform functions as an adversary-informed tradecraft engine that captures and operationalizes observed attacker methodology under disciplined rules of engagement.
We test whether your defenses can stop how attackers actually operate, not how your tools assume they do.
Unlike traditional security assessments that rely on annual cycles and standardized playbooks, RAP delivers ongoing validation at mission tempo. We observe real adversary behavior in the wild, extract decision-making patterns and methodology, then continuously validate whether those methods would succeed against your defenses.
This approach produces evidence, not belief. You receive attack paths, business impact narratives, detection gap summaries, and board-ready risk visibility, all grounded in what would actually happen if a capable adversary targeted your organization today.
Differentiation
THE RAP DIFFERENCE
Root Access Protection exists because existing validation models can't keep pace with attacker innovation. We built a different approach from the ground up.
Observed Attacker Methodology, Not Playbooks
Most validation tools replay MITRE ATT&CK techniques in isolation. Attackers don't work that way. They chain techniques into campaigns, make decisions based on what they observe, adapt when defenses resist, and follow patterns shaped by operational experience.
RAP captures these patterns directly from the wild. Our platform observes how attackers probe, pivot, and persist, then extracts the methodology behind their decisions. This isn't theoretical. This is how adversaries operate when they think no one is watching.
We translate that methodology into continuous validation operations tailored to your environment. You're not tested against a static checklist. You're tested against what's working for attackers right now.
Continuous Operation at Mission Tempo
Annual pentests deliver a snapshot. Attackers operate continuously. The gap between your last assessment and today is an exploitable window.
RAP runs at mission tempo. Validation cycles repeat on a defined rhythm, regression testing every time your environment changes, every time a new technique emerges, every time defenses shift. You don't wait six months to find out whether your latest patch introduced a new attack path.
Continuous validation means continuous evidence. You always know where you stand.
Evidence-Producing Outcomes
Most tools produce alerts, dashboards, and vulnerability counts. RAP produces evidence that drives decisions.
Every engagement delivers structured outcomes: attack path narratives with step-by-step methodology, business impact framing that connects technical findings to systems and data at risk, detection gap summaries that show where visibility failed, regression test reports that track improvement over time, and board-ready summaries that translate risk into executive language.
These aren't generic findings. These are scenario-specific, environment-validated proofs of what would happen if a capable adversary gained access today.
Human Expertise Over Raw Knowledge
AI can explain how a TTP works. It can generate exploit code. It can summarize threat intelligence. What it cannot do is bring the judgment to know when a technique matters, why an adversary would choose it over alternatives, what behaviors typically follow, and which attack paths align with specific threat actor profiles.
That judgment comes from operational experience. Our methodology is shaped by backgrounds in Offensive Cyber Operations, Computer Network Exploitation, and joint intelligence operations, where campaign planning, deconfliction, rules of engagement, and effects-based reasoning are doctrine, not optional.
RAP uses automation for repetition, coverage, and regression. Humans retain authority over mission planning, ROE enforcement, and outcome interpretation. This ensures that validation is both scalable and grounded in the realities of how adversaries think and operate.
Join The Waitlist
Root Access Protection operates with deliberate capacity constraints. We work with organizations that prioritize rigor, evidence, and disciplined tradecraft over speed and convenience.
Who It's For
Security leaders and B2B SaaS founders who need continuous, evidence-driven validation of their defenses. Teams that recognize the gap between compliance and actual security.
What You Get
- Priority consideration
- Early access to methodology
- Transparency on timing
- Direct communication
When You'll Hear Back
We review waitlist submissions weekly. Initial response within 7 business days. This isn't a generic drip campaign.
Process
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Whether you join the waitlist or book a discovery call directly, here's what the process looks like.
1. 15-Minute Fit Check
We confirm scope, constraints, and alignment. This isn't a sales pitch. It's a mutual evaluation of whether RAP fits your environment, risk tolerance, and validation maturity.
We'll ask about your current security posture, telemetry access, compliance requirements, and whether you have explicit authorization to conduct offensive operations in your environment. If there's no fit, we'll tell you immediately.
2. ROE and Environment Alignment
Before any technical activity begins, we agree on Rules of Engagement, deconfliction plans, and data boundaries. This includes who gets notified, when operations pause, what's out of bounds, and how evidence is handled.
We also assess your telemetry reality. If you're running a constrained environment (IOC-only SIEM, limited query access), we adjust methodology accordingly. CETHA-style hunting can operate where traditional tools fail.
3. Draft Scope and Next Steps
Once alignment is confirmed, we draft a proposed engagement scope. For Continuous Threat Emulation Validation, this includes cadence (monthly, quarterly), target environment boundaries, and deliverable expectations. For Constrained Environment Threat Hunting, we define hunt hypotheses, IOC expansion strategies, and recursive chain depth.
You'll receive a formal ROE package before any operational activity starts. No surprises. No unauthorized testing. Everything explicit.
Audience
WHO IT'S FOR
Security Leaders
You're under pressure from the board, regulators, and enterprise customers to prove your security controls actually work. Annual pentests and compliance audits check boxes, but they don't tell you whether your defenses would stop a real adversary who understands your environment.
Your team is stretched across tool sprawl. SIEM, EDR, XDR, MDR, vulnerability scanners, and compliance dashboards, but no continuous validation to confirm those tools stop what attackers actually do. When a breach happens, the post-mortem always reveals the same gap: "We had the tools, but they didn't detect the behavior."
RAP solves this.
Continuous Threat Emulation Validation runs at mission tempo, testing whether your defenses stop observed attacker methodology, not just MITRE playbooks. You receive board-ready summaries with business impact framing, attack path narratives, and regression testing.
This is the operational arm of Threat-Informed Defense.
B2B SaaS Founders
Security questionnaires are slowing your sales cycles. Enterprise buyers want proof that your product won't be the breach that ends their career. You can't afford a full-time senior security team, but you need credible answers when a Fortune 500 procurement team asks, "How do you validate your defenses?"
A single breach could kill your company. Not because of the technical impact, but because enterprise buyers will walk, investors will downgrade your valuation, and trust is nearly impossible to rebuild. You need affordable, continuous validation that produces evidence packages you can hand to due diligence teams, compliance auditors, and enterprise security reviewers.
RAP solves this.
Continuous Threat Emulation delivers evidence-focused outcomes tailored for B2B SaaS environments. Attack path narratives translate technical findings into business impact language. Detection gap summaries show what your SIEM missed and why.
You get affordable, credible proof that your defenses work, packaged in formats that plug directly into security questionnaires.
Practitioners & Red Teams
You know the limitations of existing tools. BAS platforms simulate techniques but miss the methodology that makes attacks succeed. Annual red team exercises are episodic and resource-constrained. Threat intel feeds provide indicators but no operational context on how adversaries chain them into campaigns.
You want access to fresh tradecraft. Real attacker methodology captured from the wild, operationalized into campaigns and hunt hypotheses you can use. You want validation tools that feed your detection engineering backlog, not replace your judgment.
RAP is upstream of you.
We observe attacker methodology in constrained interaction environments, extract decision-making patterns, and package them into tradecraft feeds, campaign templates, and hunt memory. Red teams consume RAP outputs as operational inputs. Detection engineers use our findings to prioritize what actually matters. We don't compete with red teams. We provide the continuous, evidence-driven tradecraft research that makes red team operations more effective.