Measuring the Success of Your Adversary Simulations

This article provides guidance for organizations and Red Teams on defining and measuring success in Adversary Simulation (AdSim) engagements, breaking success into three primary goals—testing controls, enabling defensive enlightenment, and exhibiting professional courtesy—and offering practical metrics and questions (e.g., MTTD/MTTR, detection coverage, collaboration practices) to evaluate an engagement's value and conduct.