SimSpace has announced EWI Radar, a new preemptive cybersecurity research capability built directly into the SimSpace Cyber Range platform. Designed to help security and operational technology (OT) teams test defenses prior to a live breach, EWI Radar converts active nation-state threat intelligence into hyper-synthetic, risk-free attack simulations.
Key Takeaways
- Preemptive Defense Testing: Integrates active nation-state threat intelligence within a simulated cyber range, allowing IT and OT defenders to safely reproduce real-world adversary patterns and stress-test new security controls before deploying them to production environments.
- Dual-Model Behavioral Detection: Features an AI/ML-driven detection framework combining an unsupervised Isolation Forest model (for detecting baseline deviations in response size and latency) with a deterministic latency-ratio backstop.
- Validated Nation-State Campaign Simulation: To demonstrate the capability, SimSpace replicated a live, 5-phase Iran-attributed cyber campaign targeting internet-exposed IP cameras (Hikvision and Dahua).
- Zero False-Positive Accuracy: During range validation testing, EWI Radar recorded zero idle false positives and achieved a 100% alert confirmation rate without using pre-packaged attack signatures, maintaining accurate attacker-source attribution on every alert.
