Today we announced AVA Agentic OS, the operating system for Continuous Threat Exposure Management, and the start of a new era for cyber defensive operations and AttackIQ.
AVA Agentic OS is an agentic operating system that orchestrates specialized AI agents and tools into autonomous cybersecurity missions: missions that continuously validate defenses, break attack paths, and reduce threat debt. Threats now move at machine speed, and with AVA, defense does too. This launch is the future of AttackIQ, and we believe it marks a turning point for how security operations will run for the next decade.
Built On a Decade of Proof
Leadership positions are earned, and ours was earned in the field. For more than a decade, AttackIQ has led security control validation and breach and attack simulation, testing real defenses against real adversary behavior aligned to MITRE ATT&CK®. That work taught us, and our customers, exactly which security investments hold up under pressure.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) rewards precisely those strengths. Running CTEM well requires depth in adversary emulation, evidence-based measurement, and a discipline of proving what works, which is the foundation we have spent ten years building. AVA extends that foundation from validating defenses to operating exposure management. The strategy is continuity at a new altitude: the same threat-informed principles our customers trust, now executed continuously by agentic systems.
Future-Proofing the Next Decade
AVA OS is open by design. It operates as an orchestration layer across the security investments customers already own, including their existing AttackIQ deployment, and coordinates them into unified missions. Teams can launch missions from the AttackIQ Platform or from the AI environments where work increasingly happens: ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and partner applications. As the enterprise becomes AI-native, AVA is already there.
The durability runs deeper than integrations. The security industry has a habit of solving yesterday’s problem at scale. AVA was designed differently. Missions are powered by live threat intelligence and executed through specialized agents, so the system evolves as adversaries do rather than waiting for product release cycles to catch up. When tactics change, missions change with them. Customers are investing in an operational layer built to keep pace for the next five to ten years.
Scale and Efficiency, By Design
Every AVA mission runs end-to-end: validating defenses against active adversaries, closing detection gaps, optimizing security controls, breaking attack paths, and securing enterprise AI deployments. Work that once required weeks of coordinated effort across specialized functions now executes continuously, and the gains are not incremental. Coverage stops being limited by headcount. The same team completes more validation cycles, emulates more adversaries, and tests more attack paths, and every one of those “mores” compounds into the measure that matters most: more threat debt paid down, month after month, with experts spending their time on judgment and decisions. Just as important, these capabilities now reach every organization. Advanced security operations have many working parts: threat intelligence, adversary emulation, detection engineering, control validation, attack path analysis. Each is a discipline in its own right, and until now, fielding all of them together was practical only for the largest security programs. AVA democratizes every one of those components, delivering them as coordinated missions that a team of any size can run. That is what we mean by democratizing cyber defense operations.
Where Cyber Defense is Headed
We believe the next era of security operations is agentic. Human experts will continue to set strategy, direct priorities, and make the judgment calls, while autonomous missions execute continuously underneath them, at the tempo modern threats demand. Not replacing human expertise, but extending it beyond the limits of human coordination.
The cybersecurity industry spent years optimizing how to identify exposure. Going forward, leadership will be defined by how effectively organizations reduce adversary opportunity.
We believe the future of cyber defense is built on three ideas:
- Threat debt becomes the business outcome
Organizations need a way to understand whether adversary opportunity is increasing or decreasing over time. - CTEM becomes the operating model
The discipline for continuously discovering exposure, validating defenses, prioritizing action, and measuring progress. - AVA becomes the technology that makes it possible
Frameworks don’t execute. Strategies don’t coordinate themselves. AVA transforms CTEM from a strategic framework into a continuously operating system capable of turning threat intelligence into measurable security outcomes.
An open ecosystem of specialized agents, partner integrations, and AI-native workflows will grow around that operational core. Our role is to help customers adopt that future using the investments, teams, and expertise they already have. Through AttackIQ Forward Deployed Engineering, we work alongside customer teams to operationalize AVA, accelerate adoption, and transfer the expertise needed to run it successfully themselves.
The organizations that succeed in the years ahead will not be the ones that generate the most findings or produce the most reports. They will be the ones that can continuously validate defenses, adapt to changing threats, and demonstrate measurable reductions in threat debt over time.
That’s the future we’re building toward with AVA Agentic OS.
See It First
None of this happens without our customers, whose partnership shaped every mission AVA runs.
The formal announcement is in today’s press release, and the full detail is on our product pages. Better still, see it live: AVA debuts at Black Hat USA, booth #1957, with autonomous missions running all week. Come launch one.
Can’t make it to Black Hat? Join us Thursday, August 13 for “The New Operating System for Cyber Defense: How Security Teams Counter AI-Powered Adversaries”, where we’ll take a deeper look at the platform, the missions, and the operational model behind it. Reserve your spot.
Welcome to the new AttackIQ.
