Fifteen years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory building cyber assessment capabilities for the military shaped how Lee Rossey runs SimSpace, the company he co-founded in 2015. Talking to Wasim Attar at ITTech Pulse, SimSpace’s CTO argues the military habit of measurement and testing belongs in commercial security: train like you fight. He points to a readiness paradox, with 78% of security leaders confident in their defenses while simulation scores fall to around 30%, and traces it to AI being deployed faster than it is tested. With 44% of organizations testing twice a year or less, he recommends quarterly at minimum and monthly where possible, supported by hyper-synthetic data, AI Proving Grounds and humans still in the loop.
