Continuous Cybersecurity with ABOME
Build a continuous cybersecurity program that tests, monitors, and improves your organization’s security posture throughout the year. ABOME combines Red Team engagements, APT simulations, regular penetration testing, vulnerability management, and finding tracking within a structured security model.
Learn More About ABOMEWhat Is Continuous Cybersecurity?
Continuous cybersecurity evaluates an organization’s security posture through ongoing controls, attack simulations, regular testing, and validation rather than relying on a single annual assessment.
Lostar’s ABOME service brings Red Team engagements, APT simulations, penetration testing, vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and retesting together within one security cycle.
Why Is a Year-Round Security Model Necessary?
Digital infrastructures, applications, and attack methods are constantly evolving. A penetration test completed at a specific point in time reflects the security posture at that moment. New systems, updates, integrations, and configuration changes can introduce additional risks over time.
Realistic Attacker Behavior
Targeted attack simulations test defensive capabilities under realistic conditions.
7-Member Red Team Support
Specialist support and proactive testing help strengthen the organization’s defensive capabilities over time.
Early Warning and Monitoring
Weekly and monthly controls help maintain readiness against evolving threats and newly introduced risks.
Manageable and Measurable
Security activities are managed through measurable metrics and transformed into a sustainable operating model.
Who Is This Service For?
The service is designed for organizations with critical systems, applications, and digital infrastructure that want to monitor and improve their security posture throughout the year.
It is particularly suitable for organizations that regularly conduct penetration tests, plan Red Team engagements, and need centralized visibility into remediation and retesting activities.
Organizations Managing Critical Systems and Data
Helps organizations managing financial data, customer information, intellectual property, production infrastructure, or critical digital services regularly assess and strengthen their security posture.
Organizations with Evolving Attack Surfaces
Provides up-to-date security visibility for organizations whose risk exposure changes due to new applications, cloud services, remote access systems, and expanding digital assets.
Organizations with SOC and Security Operations
Supports the evaluation of security monitoring, alert generation, incident analysis, and response processes against realistic attacker behavior.
Highly Regulated Industries
Supports structured security activities in finance, energy, telecommunications, technology, healthcare, and manufacturing, where regular testing, evidence, and risk tracking are required.
Teams That Need to Track Finding Remediation
Creates a sustainable structure for teams that need to centrally track security finding owners, priorities, target dates, remediation status, and retest results.
What Cybersecurity Services Does ABOME Provide?
Continuous Security Testing
Weekly external vulnerability scans, monthly internal asset scans, and specific security checks help identify emerging risks quickly.
Red Team & APT Simulations
Social engineering, internal and external network testing, and vulnerability chain assessments help identify persistent threats and weaknesses.
Penetration Testing & Compliance Testing
Web, mobile, API, wireless network, Active Directory, database, firewall, and email gateway tests support security and compliance requirements.
Incident Response & Digital Forensics Support
Incident response, evidence collection, forensic analysis, and crisis management support help organizations prepare for cybersecurity incidents.
How Does the Security Model Work?
Instead of relying on isolated security tests, the service creates a recurring cycle of detection, validation, action, and retesting. The organization’s external attack surface, internal assets, and critical systems are assessed at defined intervals. Findings are prioritized by risk, assigned to the relevant owners, and tracked through remediation. Completed fixes are then retested to verify that risk has actually been reduced. Organizations can also refer to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as a broader reference for managing cybersecurity risk.
Attack Surface Monitoring
Internet-facing systems, applications, network components, and critical digital assets are regularly monitored to identify new risks at an early stage.
Testing and Attack Simulation
Vulnerability scans, penetration tests, Red Team activities, and targeted attack scenarios evaluate defensive mechanisms under realistic conditions.
Risk-Based Action Management
Findings are prioritized according to technical severity, asset criticality, and potential business impact, with actions assigned to relevant teams.
Validation and Improvement
Completed remediation actions are retested, risk trends are measured, and improvements in security posture are made visible through periodic reporting.
Monitor Security Risks with the ABOME Portal
The portal provides centralized visibility into active findings, remediation progress, trend analysis, risk-based prioritization, and management reporting. Security teams can follow changes in their risk posture throughout the year from a single interface.
Visibility into Active Findings
All identified findings are displayed in a single view, enabling faster action and follow-up.
Finding Remediation Tracking
Remediation progress is monitored systematically to help reduce security risks over time.
Trend Analysis
Changes and improvements in the organization’s security posture are visualized over time.
Risk-Based Prioritization
The most critical risks are prioritized, addressed, and reported according to potential impact.
Management Reporting
Measurable security reporting supports management-level visibility and decision-making.
Business value: Advanced security testing capabilities become available throughout the year, operational workload is reduced, and management gains measurable data for security decision-making.
ABOME vs. Periodic Penetration Testing
Penetration testing identifies technical vulnerabilities within a defined scope at a specific point in time. Applications, infrastructure, and attack surfaces continue to change after the assessment. ABOME combines regular testing, attack simulations, active finding tracking, retesting, and management reporting within an ongoing security cycle.
Measures security posture at a specific point in time.
Identifies and reports technical vulnerabilities in defined applications, networks, or systems during a specific testing period.
- Conducted within a defined date and scope.
- Focuses on technical security vulnerabilities.
- Reflects the security posture at the time of testing.
- Findings are delivered in a report.
Monitors and improves security posture throughout the year.
Combines regular testing, attack simulations, active finding tracking, and remediation validation within an ongoing model.
- Provides regular security controls throughout the year.
- Monitors changes in the attack surface.
- Tracks finding remediation through the portal.
- Reports risk trends and security improvements.
How Is Security Performance Measured Over Time?
Success is not measured only by the number of tests performed. Reductions in critical findings, faster remediation, prevention of recurring vulnerabilities, and improvements in attack detection are evaluated together. Active findings, remediation times, risk trends, and changes in security posture can be tracked through centralized reporting.
Number of Critical Findings
High-risk vulnerabilities and changes between reporting periods are monitored to evaluate improvements in overall risk exposure.
Average Remediation Time
The time between identifying a finding and verifying its successful remediation is measured to monitor action effectiveness.
Recurring Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities that reappear after remediation or emerge across different systems are analyzed to identify long-term improvement areas.
Detection and Response Capability
The assessment measures at which stage attack scenarios are detected and how quickly security teams begin their response.
How Do ABOME and GRCOC Work Together?
ABOME focuses on technical testing, attack simulation, and finding visibility, while GRCOC manages governance, risk, compliance, policy, and audit processes. Used together, they help organizations connect technical security improvements with broader governance and risk management objectives.
Frequently Asked Questions About ABOME
Testing scope, frequency, and reporting are customized according to the organization’s attack surface, critical systems, and existing security structure. The service supports internal teams with specialist testing, visibility, and risk prioritization rather than replacing them.
Is ABOME a managed SOC service?
No. The service focuses on security testing, attack simulations, vulnerability management, finding tracking, and validation. It complements an existing SOC by helping test detection and response capabilities.
Does the service replace the existing security team?
No. It works alongside information security, IT, SOC, and infrastructure teams and strengthens existing activities through specialist testing and centralized tracking.
How is the testing frequency determined?
Testing intervals are planned according to the external attack surface, critical systems, infrastructure changes, risk levels, and regulatory requirements.
How are identified findings tracked?
Findings are tracked through the portal together with risk levels, owners, target dates, and remediation status. Completed actions can then be retested and validated.
Are Red Team engagements included?
Yes. Depending on organizational needs, Red Team and APT simulations that replicate real-world attacker behavior can be included within the scope.
Can ABOME and GRCOC be used together?
Yes. Technical testing and finding management can be combined with GRCOC’s governance, risk, compliance, policy, and audit capabilities to support a broader improvement model.
Strengthen Security Year-Round with ABOME
Move beyond one-time assessments and adopt a model built around regular testing, validation, remediation tracking, and measurable security improvement. Contact Lostar’s experts to define the right scope for your organization.
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