Artificial intelligence is in just about every cybersecurity tool today. It is also the weapon of choice for threat actors. They can use AI to get smarter, faster and to create more believable attacks. Companies need to use AI to simulate the same types of attacks to validate their security controls.

According to Gartner, “Intelligent simulation solutions are designed to offer accurate modeling and what-if scenarios for both physical and digital systems at an unprecedented scale, and at lower cost, by leveraging digital technologies, such as AI, digital twins and spatial computing. This emerging technology is actively expanding beyond traditional applications, such as manufacturing, and is now revolutionizing critical sectors like security. It aims to transform security data and processes by accelerating proactive measures, shifting from reactive detection and response to preemptive cybersecurity.”

Intelligent Simulation by Skyhawk Security

Skyhawk Security’s Intelligent Simulation leverages digital twins and creates a completely AI-based duplicate of your cloud to validate your security controls with Red Team-as-a-Service.

Adversarial view of exposures shows how they can be strung together and weaponized to compromise crown jewels and provide and identifies and prioritizes vulnerabilities and exposures. The simulations run continuously to ensure as the cloud architecture changes and the cloud security controls change, the results can be used to update threat detections.

How does Intelligent Simulation by Skyhawk Security help you?

  • Reduce CNAPP Alert Noise: AI-based Red Team provides an adversarial view of exposures and vulnerabilities to prioritize them based on both the technical severity and the business value of the at-risk asset. Security teams now address the most impactful CNAPP alerts to reduce cloud risk.
  • Security Control Validation: The AI-based Purple Team simulates attacks and defenses to prove where defenses will hold and where they will not. The cloud security team now knows what to update, remediate, and fix to prevent cloud breaches.
  • Prevent cloud breaches with preemptive threat detection: The AI-based Purple Team allows for attacks to be rehearsed, so the threat detection has already “seen” the attack and can preemptively alert on real threats to prevent cloud breaches.

 

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Gartner, Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem by Mark Wah, David Senf, Alfredo Ramirez IV, Tarun Rohilla Published October 17, 2025.

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