Understanding The Mitigant Platform
The Mitigant Security Platform is an integrated cloud security solution pioneering Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) - a methodology that combines continuous posture management with proactive attack validation to prove which security exposures are actually exploitable. The platform consists of three core products that work together to provide comprehensive, evidence-based cloud security:
Mitigant CAE (Cloud Attack Emulation)
What it does:
- Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV): Goes beyond detecting vulnerabilities to proving which ones attackers can actually exploit - validating real-world exploitability, not just theoretical risk
- AI-Powered Intelligence: Automatically generates executive summaries, provides contextual attack recommendations, and accelerates remediation with intelligent insights
- Validates Real Exploitability: Tests whether security controls actually work by emulating real-world attacks, proving which vulnerabilities are exploitable vs. theoretical
- Attack Builder: Create custom cloud attacks in seconds without writing code using an intuitive visual interface
- Cloud Attack Language (CAL): YAML-based schema for constructing complex, multi-step attacks as code
- Continuous Testing: Tests detection and response capabilities continuously-no more waiting months for penetration testing
- Democratizes Red/Purple Team: Makes advanced security testing accessible to teams of all sizes without dedicated offensive security staff
- AI Red Teaming: Simplifies AI workload security by emulating attacks against Amazon Bedrock aligned with MITRE ATLAS
How it works:
- 500 Attack Scenarios: Pre-built attacks based on MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS frameworks, mapped to real threat actors
- Attack-as-Code: Define attacks as code, version control security experiments, integrate validation into CI/CD pipelines
- Multi-Cloud Coverage: Comprehensive attack scenarios across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes
- Bring Your Own Role (BYOR): Customer-controlled blast radius-you define the permissions, we respect the boundaries
- Automatic Safety: Dynamic snapshotting and automatic rollback after each attack-even mid-execution failures are recovered
- Flexible Deployment: Run in pre-production or production with safety controls; choose Admin, Non-Admin, or BYOR permission models
Ideal for:
- Security operations teams validating detection rules and SIEM effectiveness
- Organizations without dedicated red/purple teams
- Detection engineers testing CDR and threat detection tools
- Cloud security engineers proving security investments actually work
- Teams implementing Threat-Informed Defense and CTEM strategies
- Security teams conducting AI red teaming for GenAI workloads
Learn more: Cloud Attack Emulation
Learn more: AI-Powered Analysis
Learn more: Attack Builder
Mitigant CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management)
What it does:
- Continuously assesses cloud configurations for misconfigurations and compliance violations
- Monitors security posture across AWS, Azure, and GCP (coming soon)
- Provides clear remediation guidance with step-by-step instructions
- Tracks compliance with frameworks like ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, NIS2, DORA, CIS Benchmarks, and more
How it works:
- Agentless, read-only monitoring via cloud provider APIs
- Automatic detection of violations against security best practices and compliance benchmarks
- Automatic asset management and drift detection (infrastructure changes: resource creation, deletion, modification)
- Real-time alerts for compliance violations
- Complete resource inventory across multi-cloud environments
Ideal for:
- Compliance teams ensuring regulatory adherence
- Cloud architects maintaining security standards
- Security engineers monitoring cloud infrastructure
- Organizations requiring continuous compliance evidence
Learn more: Cloud Security Posture Management
Learn more: Drift Management in Cloud Infrastructure
Mitigant KSPM (Kubernetes Security Posture Management)
What it does:
- Specialized security and compliance monitoring for Kubernetes environments
- Detects and remediates Kubernetes-specific vulnerabilities
- Validates Kubernetes configurations against best practices and compliance standards (e.g., NIST 800-190, CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks)
- Integrates Kubernetes security with platform-level cloud security (e.g., AWS policies integrated for easy prioritization)
- Prioritizes container vulnerabilities based on risk using vulnerability intelligence (EPSS and KEV)
- Provides registry security assessment and scanning
How it works:
- Uses a lightweight agent installed as a Kubernetes operator for accurate in-cluster monitoring and self-hosted Kubernetes clusters
- API-based approach for managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) without agent installation
- Integrates with container registries for image scanning
- Provides visibility into image layers, vulnerabilities, and runtime contexts
Ideal for:
- DevOps teams managing containerized applications
- Platform engineers running Kubernetes clusters
- Organizations with microservices architectures
- Kubernetes cluster administrators
- Teams using EKS, AKS, GKE, or on-prem K8s
Learn more: Kubernetes Security Posture Management
Learn more: AI Security for GenAI
How They Work Together
The Integrated Approach:
- CSPM/KSPM detects potential security issues and compliance gaps
- CAE validates which issues are actually exploitable via adversarial emulation
- AI-powered analysis provides contextual remediation guidance with CSPM/KSPM detections
- Continuous validation proves whether fixes actually work and validates the entire defensive posture
- Together they deliver evidence-based security with validated exposures
Example Workflow:
- CSPM detects an overly permissive IAM policy
- CAE emulates a privilege escalation attack proving the policy is exploitable
- The platform recommends fixing the IAM policy and provides step-by-step instructions
- After remediation, CAE re-validates to confirm the attack no longer succeeds
- Remediation is prioritized based on validated exploitability
Shared Platform Benefits:
- Single dashboard for all security findings
- Unified compliance reporting across products
- Consistent user experience
- No integration complexity
- One vendor, one platform, one support team
You can trial CSPM, KSPM, and CAE individually or together based on your needs.
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About Mitigant
Mitigant is a German cybersecurity company pioneering cloud security validation through attack emulation and Security Chaos Engineering. Founded by researchers from Hasso Plattner Institute with over 20 years of combined cloud security experience, Mitigant provides an integrated security platform combining CSPM, KSPM, and Cloud Attack Emulation.
The platform enables organizations of all sizes to proactively verify the readiness and resilience of their cloud-native infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes against potential cyber threats. By combining continuous posture management with attack validation based on MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS frameworks, Mitigant helps detect and remediate security blind spots within cloud security strategies, tools, and teams.
Contact Information
- Website: https://www.mitigant.io
- Email: contact@mitigant.io
- Sign Up: https://www.mitigant.io/en/sign-up
Partnerships & Recognition
- Strategic partner with German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
- Selected for Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Cybersecurity
- Member of Digital Hub Bonn
- Strategic partnerships with GlobalDots, Future Spirits, Syself, and Fogbyte
Last Updated: November 2025




