Cybersecurity Innovation Center
Cybersecurity
Solutions Testing.
Explore new security technology at our Innovation Center. A state-of-the-art facility for testing and validating the latest solutions to stay ahead of threats.
About The CIC
Cybersecurity Solutions Testing
As ever-increasing attacks combine with rapid digital transformation, ensuring your organization is prepared to withstand the latest threats has never been more challenging and important.
The Arcova Cybersecurity Innovation Center (CIC) helps answer essential questions around improving your security operations, teams, and gaining the upper hand on attackers.
Our custom cloud-based lab environment delivers key cybersecurity insights. Here, you'll gain insight into how security tools will function in your live environments. Give your team a better way to practice for ransomware, adversarial attacks, and to remediate emerging risks.
The Platform
What Is the Cybersecurity Innovation Center?
The CIC is a customizable, virtualized environment implemented using infrastructure-as-code that allows us to utilize various tools techniques and capabilities as a powerful approach to problem-solving. The CIC also incorporates a cloud-based lab environment for supporting corporate cybersecurity development.
By utilizing the CIC, organizations can develop prototypes of potential ideas, concepts and solutions, and then test these against real threats. In collaboration with Arcova, companies can deploy a realistic simulation of their live environments and use it to answer critical questions and derive key cybersecurity insights. This also allows companies to evaluate security technologies and test tactics and techniques before deploying them to a live environment.
Key Capabilities
What the CIC Delivers
Answer Critical Cybersecurity Program Questions
The CIC helps stakeholders answer critical questions about cybersecurity program functionality, how the latest vulnerabilities and attack vectors may impact their security, and more within a safe environment.
Evaluate Solutions in a Vendor Agnostic Environment
Arcova partners with numerous solutions providers. This enables the company to produce an unbiased analysis of how security tools perform alone and together. Clients can also use the CIC to evaluate solutions spend and optimize their program for the best value.
Utilize a Custom Built and Safe Environment
Developed as infrastructure-as-code, the CIC is fully customizable and can be torn down to protect proprietary data. The public-facing and interactive sandbox can also show how simulated attacks unfold, determine their intent, and help guide what organizations should do next to better mitigate risk.
MSSP, Offensive and Defensive Practice
As part of its MSSP offering, Arcova will also use the CIC to generate ongoing threat intelligence and further strengthen its offensive and defensive approaches to help clients mitigate risk against ransomware, nation-state, and other attacks.
Use Cases
How Can the CIC Help My Organization?
The CIC brings together stakeholders from diverse industry, technology, and cybersecurity functions with the aim to deliver industry-aligned, secure outcomes. The CIC's virtualized environment makes it easy for an organization to deploy, customize, and take down the infrastructure as needed.
The CIC addresses the profoundly multifaceted challenges cybersecurity presents by bringing together experts in information security, governance, risk management and other functions to design, test and customize secure solutions for clients.
Evaluating Security Solutions
Due to the wide variety of security tools available, it can be difficult to determine which would meet an organization's unique security needs. An effective evaluation of available solutions requires a vendor-agnostic, realistic environment where an organization can test out a tool's features and capabilities.
The CIC provides a simulated, vendor-neutral environment for evaluating security solutions. Companies can use the CIC to evaluate if they need a particular capability, its importance in the corporate cyber risk management strategy, and the best solution for the organization's unique needs.
Threat Research & Analysis
Companies face rapidly evolving cyber threats. When a new attack tool, tactic, or technique emerges, it can be helpful for security personnel to have hands-on experience with how it works and its effects to learn how best to defend against it.
The CIC provides a sandboxed, realistic environment for investigating cyber threats to an organization. Security analysts can perform simulated attacks, observe their effects, and test potential defensive strategies in a safe, isolated environment before implementing these defenses in the company's production infrastructure.
These simulated attacks can also be used to inform an organization's cybersecurity risk management and investment strategy. Based on simulations in the CIC, decision-makers can gain more accurate visibility into the probability and impact of various threats to the organization's systems.
Incident Response Capability Development
A rapid, correct response is essential to minimizing the cost and damage of a cyberattack. One of the most effective methods of driving down the cost of a data breach or other cybersecurity incident is to have an incident response team in place with a tried and tested incident response plan.
The CIC provides incident response teams with a realistic environment for performing cybersecurity exercises and testing and tuning their incident response strategies. This enables incident responders to gain valuable experience and streamline the incident response process, better preparing them to handle true threats to the organization.
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