Forward Deployed EngineerING
Turn Your Toughest Cybersecurity Challenges into Working Solutions
Build production-ready solutions on AVA Agentic OS with embedded AttackIQ Forward Deployed Engineers. Every solution is built and validated in your environment, then transferred to your team to own, operate, and extend.
What is Forward Deployed Engineering?
Forward Deployed Engineering is an embedded engineering service where experienced AttackIQ engineers work alongside your team to solve complex cybersecurity challenges using AVA Agentic OS. Rather than simply deploying software, they design, build, and validate production-ready capabilities in your environment—using your systems, data, and operational workflows. Every engagement leaves your team with a solution they can own, operate, and extend independently.
What This Service Delivers
Embedded Engineering Expertise
AttackIQ Forward Deployed Engineers work alongside your team to build solutions in your environment, from planning through handoff.
Production-Ready AVA Agentic OS Integration
We integrate AVA Agentic OS into your existing security operations, connecting it with your workflows, data, and tooling to solve a specific operational challenge.
Built in Your Environment
Every capability is designed, built, and validated using your production environment, data, governance, and operational constraints—not a demonstration lab or reference architecture.
Lasting Operational Capability
When the engagement concludes, your team owns a validated solution, complete with documentation, knowledge transfer, and the ability to operate and extend it independently.
How the Engagement Works
Understand
Define the Challenge
Every engagement begins by aligning on the operational challenge you’re solving, the environment you’ll operate in, and the outcomes that define success.
Build
Develop in Your Environment
Forward Deployed Engineers build and iterate directly in your environment using AVA Agentic OS, ensuring the solution works with your existing operations and technology.
Enable
Operate Independently
Before the engagement concludes, the solution is validated against its intended objectives and transferred to your team for long-term ownership.
Who Is Forward Deployed Engineering For?
Forward Deployed Engineering is for organizations ready to build AI capability into their security operations. From teams already underway to those just getting started, our engineers embed on site to design, build, and integrate solutions on AVA Agentic OS against your hardest missions, and leave your team running them.
Typical customers include:
Government Agencies
Defense Organizations
Intelligence Organizations
Critical Infrastructure
Enterprise Security teams
Security Operations Centers (SOCs)
What You’ll Walk Away With
A production-ready AVA Agentic OS deployment running in your environment
Automated cybersecurity workflows tailored to your operational priorities
Integrated security operations that leverage your existing tools and data
A team trained to operate, maintain, and extend the deployed capabilities
A repeatable foundation for expanding autonomous cybersecurity missions
AttackIQ Forward Deployed Engineers provide hands-on engineering throughout the engagement, building alongside your team from kickoff to handoff.
Why AttackIQ
AttackIQ helps organizations operationalize CTEM by combining AVA Agentic OS with embedded engineering expertise. Our Forward Deployed Engineers build and validate solutions directly in your environment, enabling your team to own and extend the capability long after the engagement ends.
As a founding Research Partner of MITRE’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense, AttackIQ brings deep threat-informed expertise across government, defense, and enterprise environments.
Ready to
get started?
Build a measurable CTEM program and take the next step toward reducing risk.
Frequently Asked Questions
Forward Deployed Engineering is an embedded engineering service where AttackIQ engineers work directly with your team to solve complex cybersecurity challenges using AVA Agentic OS. Rather than simply deploying software, they design, build, and validate production-ready capabilities in your environment, then transfer ownership so your team can operate and extend the solution independently.
A standard deployment focuses on installing and configuring the platform. A Forward Deployed Engineering engagement embeds an AttackIQ engineer with your team to design, build, integrate, and validate a solution for a specific operational challenge. The result is a working capability tailored to your environment—not just a deployed platform.
Forward Deployed Engineering is designed for organizations with a specific cybersecurity or operational challenge that requires more than an out-of-the-box deployment. Engagements can include operationalizing CTEM, automating threat validation, integrating AVA Agentic OS into existing security workflows, developing custom automations, or building mission-specific capabilities.
Engagements are scoped to deliver working capabilities in weeks rather than months. The timeline depends on the complexity of the problem, your environment, and the scope of the solution being built.
Solutions are developed within your environment under your governance, security, and data-handling requirements. Your mission data, detection logic, and threat intelligence remain under your control throughout the engagement.
Your team receives a validated solution, complete documentation, and hands-on knowledge transfer. The goal is to leave you with an operational capability your team can own, operate, and extend independently.
Yes. Every engagement is designed to leave your organization with a working solution that you own and can continue to operate and enhance after the engagement concludes.
Yes. Forward Deployed Engineers build and validate solutions directly within your environment using your systems, data, and operational workflows. This ensures the solution is designed for your unique requirements rather than a generic reference architecture.
Forward Deployed Engineering is ideal when you need to solve a specific operational challenge quickly or require capabilities beyond a standard deployment. AttackIQ engineers work alongside your team to accelerate implementation, integrate with your existing environment, and deliver a validated solution tailored to your mission and workflows.
