Frequently Asked Questions

FourCore Analyst is a team of specialist AI agents that work together across FourCore ATTACK and FourCore HUNT. They turn threat reports into safe attack simulations and threat hunts, run them in your environment, read every result, and write the fixes and detection rules for each gap. Your team sets the approvals, scopes and schedules, and applies every change.

Agentic SecOps is security operations where AI agents carry out multi-step work on their own, such as researching a new threat, hunting for it, testing defenses against it and drafting the fix, instead of only answering questions. People set the goals and limits and decide on anything that changes the environment. FourCore applies this to threat hunting and exposure validation.

An agentic SOC is a security operations center where AI agents handle repeatable investigative work, such as triaging matches, running hunts and checking whether controls work, while analysts review findings and make decisions. FourCore Analyst covers the hunting and validation side of that work, inside the SIEM, EDR and controls a SOC already runs.

Intel Analyst turns threat reports into ready tests. Simulation Analyst explains why an attack step got through. Remediation Analyst writes the fix, the detection rule and the retest for each gap. Hunt Analyst answers questions about a threat with a verdict and evidence. Threat Hunter hunts new campaigns every day. Automations re-run the loop on a schedule and report what changed.

A copilot answers questions and waits for the next prompt, and a SOAR playbook follows fixed steps someone wrote in advance. An AI agent plans the steps for a goal, runs them in your tools, checks the results and decides what to do next. FourCore Analyst agents work this way within the limits your team sets.

Only what you allow. Tests, scopes and schedules follow the approvals you set, hunts only read data from your tools, and changes such as new detection rules or configuration fixes are applied by your team.

No. The agents take on the repeatable work, such as writing queries for each tool, following up every match, reading test results and drafting fixes. Analysts and hunters review the evidence, decide what to contain and choose what goes into production.

It pulls each behavior and indicator out of the report, builds a safe attack from library actions and a hunt for each of your tools, runs them once your team approves, and returns what was blocked, detected or missed, whether the threat is already present, and a fix for each gap.

FourCore HUNT is an agentic threat hunting product. AI agents hunt for new threats inside the SIEM and EDR you already run, follow up every match, check every empty result against the logs and retention behind it, and return a verdict with the evidence attached.

AI threat hunting uses AI agents to do the steps a hunter does by hand: turn a threat into hypotheses, write the query for each tool, run it, investigate the matches and decide whether the threat is present. The hunter reviews the verdicts and the evidence instead of writing every query.

Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps and Elastic, plus Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Cortex XDR, Sophos XDR, TrendAI Vision One and Qualys EDR. Each hunt is written in the tool's own query language, such as SPL, KQL, CQL, PowerQuery, XQL or UDM search.

No. HUNT is federated: every search runs inside your SIEM and EDR through their own APIs, so your telemetry stays where it is. Only the query results each verdict depends on are kept as evidence.

An empty result only counts after HUNT checks that the tool collects the right logs and fields and keeps them for the period searched. If a tool cannot answer, the verdict says it could not check and names the logging change that would close the gap.

A retrohunt searches past telemetry for indicators that were not known when the activity happened, such as hashes, domains and IP addresses from a new report. HUNT sweeps them back through the retention each tool has and names any window it could not check.

New threat reporting is read as it is published, the campaigns relevant to you are hunted in your tools the same day, and any match is investigated. Hunts worth repeating stay on a schedule and report only when the answer changes.

Yes. A detection that fires too often is tested against your own past telemetry, the benign patterns behind the noise are tuned out, and the rule is checked to make sure it still catches the activity it was written for.

FourCore ATTACK is an Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) platform that continuously and safely simulates real-world cyberattacks against your environment to validate whether your security controls actually work. It combines Breach and Attack Simulation with continuous automated red teaming, maps every test to MITRE ATT&CK, and gives security teams empirical evidence of exploitable gaps plus prioritized, audit-ready remediation guidance.

FourCore ATTACK deploys lightweight simulators across your in-scope systems and safely executes real adversary techniques mapped to MITRE ATT&CK — from initial access through lateral movement and exfiltration. It records exactly which actions your controls prevented, detected, or missed, then prioritizes remediation by validated attack path and generates evidence for SOC tuning and compliance reporting.

A penetration test is a point-in-time, mostly manual assessment performed once or a few times a year. FourCore ATTACK runs continuously and automatically, validating your controls 24/7 as your environment and threats change. Pen testing finds vulnerabilities at a moment in time; FourCore proves, on an ongoing basis, whether your defenses stop today's attacks — and re-validates automatically after you remediate.

Yes. FourCore ATTACK is designed to run safely in production. Its simulations emulate adversary behavior using controlled, non-destructive actions — validating whether controls detect and block techniques without deploying real malware, damaging systems, or disrupting operations. Tests are scoped and reversible, so teams get production-accurate evidence of control effectiveness without the risk of an uncontrolled live attack.

Yes. FourCore ATTACK integrates with major EDR, XDR, and SIEM platforms — including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, and Google SecOps — so validation results map directly to the alerts (or missing alerts) in your tools. This lets you measure real detection coverage, tune rules, and prove the ROI of the security stack you already own.

Yes. FourCore ATTACK supports on-premises and air-gapped deployment — including a self-contained virtual appliance (OVA) — in addition to SaaS. This makes it suitable for banks, government agencies, and other regulated organizations that cannot send security data to the cloud and need validation to run entirely within their own infrastructure.

Yes. Every attack technique in FourCore ATTACK is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, the industry-standard knowledge base of real-world adversary tactics and techniques, spanning thousands of mapped techniques. This gives security teams a common language for measuring detection coverage, identifying gaps by tactic, and reporting posture to leadership and auditors in terms the whole SOC already understands.

FourCore ATTACK helps regulated entities meet SEBI's Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF) by continuously validating security controls and auto-generating audit-ready evidence. CSCRF expects organizations to test and demonstrate control effectiveness; FourCore supplies the empirical proof — what was tested, what was blocked, and what was remediated — mapped to the framework's requirements and structured for clean auditor handoff.

Yes. FourCore ATTACK supports compliance across India and the Middle East — including RBI cyber security guidelines, SEBI CSCRF, Saudi Arabia's NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC) and SAMA framework, and UAE requirements — by continuously validating controls and generating the testing evidence auditors require. This makes it well suited to BFSI, telecom, and government organizations operating under strict, testing-mandated regulatory regimes.

FourCore ATTACK is built for security teams in regulated, high-stakes industries — banking and financial services (BFSI), insurance, telecom, and government — primarily across India, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. These organizations face strict regulatory testing mandates and sophisticated adversaries, and use FourCore to move from periodic audits to continuous cyber resilience with empirical proof of control effectiveness.

Security controls should be validated continuously, not once or twice a year. Environments, configurations, and threats change constantly, so a control that worked last quarter may silently fail today. Continuous validation — running automatically and re-testing after every change or remediation — is why Gartner ties continuous exposure management to a measurably lower likelihood of breach versus periodic testing.

Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) is a category of security technology that delivers continuous, automated evidence of whether an attack is actually feasible in your environment. Instead of scoring theoretical risk, AEV safely executes real attacker techniques to prove which exposures are exploitable and whether your controls stop them. Gartner introduced AEV to consolidate Breach and Attack Simulation, automated penetration testing, and red teaming.

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) is a security technology, recognized by Gartner, that continuously and safely emulates real-world adversary techniques — such as ransomware, lateral movement, and data exfiltration — against your live defenses to verify whether your controls detect and block them. BAS platforms map scenarios to MITRE ATT&CK and measure security posture improvement over time, replacing point-in-time testing with ongoing validation.

Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) automates the work of a human red team, running multi-stage attack campaigns against your environment around the clock instead of once or twice a year. CART chains techniques into full attack paths to show how an adversary could reach critical assets, giving security teams continuous offensive testing without the cost of a large in-house red team.

Security control validation is the practice of testing your security tools — EDR, SIEM, firewalls, email gateways, and more — against real attack techniques to confirm they actually prevent, detect, and alert as expected. It replaces the assumption that a deployed control works with empirical evidence of how it performs, exposing misconfigurations, coverage gaps, and detection blind spots before an attacker finds them.

BAS validates controls; AEV validates exploitability. Breach and Attack Simulation tests whether individual techniques are detected or blocked, while Adversarial Exposure Validation goes further by chaining techniques into full attack paths to prove whether an adversary could actually reach critical assets. AEV is the broader Gartner category that now encompasses BAS, automated penetration testing, and red teaming — and FourCore ATTACK delivers both.

Manual red teaming relies on skilled human operators and usually runs as a periodic engagement, making it expensive and hard to scale. Automated (continuous) red teaming uses software to execute multi-stage attacks constantly, covering far more of the attack surface far more often. It doesn't replace human creativity for advanced threats — it frees your red team from repetitive testing to focus on novel scenarios.

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a Gartner program model for continuously scoping, discovering, prioritizing, validating, and mobilizing against cyber risk. Adversarial Exposure Validation is the validation stage of CTEM — the step that confirms which discovered exposures are actually exploitable against your real defenses. Without validation, teams are left with a long list of theoretical issues and no way to know which ones matter.

Look for proof of exploitability, not just risk scores: the platform should safely execute real attacker techniques and show exactly what your controls prevented, detected, or missed. Strong platforms offer broad MITRE ATT&CK coverage, native EDR and SIEM integration, continuous (not point-in-time) testing, flexible on-premises or air-gapped deployment, and remediation guidance mapped to your specific environment and compliance obligations.

FourCore ATTACK helps regulated entities meet SEBI's Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience Framework (CSCRF) by continuously validating security controls and auto-generating audit-ready evidence. CSCRF expects organizations to test and demonstrate control effectiveness; FourCore supplies the empirical proof — what was tested, what was blocked, and what was remediated — mapped to the framework's requirements and structured for clean auditor handoff.

Yes. FourCore ATTACK supports compliance across India and the Middle East — including RBI cyber security guidelines, SEBI CSCRF, Saudi Arabia's NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC) and SAMA framework, and UAE requirements — by continuously validating controls and generating the testing evidence auditors require. This makes it well suited to BFSI, telecom, and government organizations operating under strict, testing-mandated regulatory regimes.

FourCore ATTACK is built for security teams in regulated, high-stakes industries — banking and financial services (BFSI), insurance, telecom, and government — primarily across India, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. These organizations face strict regulatory testing mandates and sophisticated adversaries, and use FourCore to move from periodic audits to continuous cyber resilience with empirical proof of control effectiveness.