# SCYTHE

> SCYTHE is an enterprise cybersecurity company that safely runs realistic, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped adversary campaigns inside live IT, cloud, and operational technology environments. Its platform helps red, blue, and purple teams test whether EDR, SIEM, SOC workflows, and incident-response playbooks actually detect and stop attacker behavior, replacing periodic assumptions with repeatable evidence.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Columbia, United States
- **Founders:** Bryson Bort (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 28 employees in supplied company data; LinkedIn displayed 31 employee profiles and a 51-200 company-size band in 2026.
- **Products:** SCYTHE Adversarial Exposure Validation Platform, SCYTHE 4.0, SCYTHE 4.3, SCYTHE 5.0, SCYTHE 5.1
- **Notable:** Raised approximately $18.25 million across disclosed financing and the supplied 2023 extension data., Expanded from a red-team tool into an adversarial exposure validation platform spanning red, blue, and purple-team workflows., Supports cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped deployments across IT, cloud, and OT environments.

## Products & services

- **SCYTHE Adversarial Exposure Validation Platform** — Enterprise software for building and running production-safe, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped adversary campaigns and validating the response chain across EDR, SIEM, SOC, and ticketing workflows.
- **SCYTHE 4.0** — Added collaborative workflows, Jira integration, role-based participation, and a SaaS option alongside the existing on-premises deployment.
- **SCYTHE 4.3** — Added purple-team assessment automation, a visual Attack Flow designer, EDR and SIEM integrations, and a vulnerability-validation beta with a Harvest Score.
- **SCYTHE 5.0** — Introduced AI-assisted threat-emulation workflows aimed at making advanced campaign design accessible to more security practitioners.
- **SCYTHE 5.1** — Added natural-language campaign generation, faster bulk campaign loading, live monitoring, SIEM correlation, phishing simulation, preparedness scores, and rebuilt reporting.
- **Managed AEV and Security Services** — Managed validation, purple-team exercises, tabletop exercises, intelligence support, and custom threat-emulation programs for organizations without a dedicated internal red team.

## Achievements

- Raised approximately $18.25 million across disclosed financing and the supplied 2023 extension data.
- Expanded from a red-team tool into an adversarial exposure validation platform spanning red, blue, and purple-team workflows.
- Supports cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped deployments across IT, cloud, and OT environments.
- Moved software releases from quarterly or semiannual cycles to every two weeks after changing its on-premises delivery architecture.
- Published the open Purple Team Exercise Framework, whose GitHub repository had more than 800 stars in 2026.
- Released version 5.1 with natural-language campaign generation, phishing simulation, SIEM correlation, and live preparedness scores.
- Founder Bryson Bort was recognized as a 2022 SC Awards Security Executive of the Year finalist and a 2023 SANS Difference Makers Innovator of the Year.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — SCYTHE's public GitHub organization updated its Sigma regression-testing repository, a detection-engineering pipeline with 140 rules for Windows, Linux, and Microsoft 365/Azure.
- **2026-04** — The company refreshed guidance around assumed-breach testing and expanded public messaging around a library of more than 1,400 prebuilt campaigns.
- **2026-03** — SCYTHE 5.1 added AI-powered campaign generation, faster campaign loading, live execution monitoring, phishing simulation, SIEM correlation, preparedness scores, and rebuilt dashboards.
- **2026-01** — SCYTHE and Starseer announced a joint solution for Shadow AI Readiness Assessments and testing AI-native attack paths.
- **2025-08** — SCYTHE announced version 5.0, positioning AI-assisted simplicity as a way to broaden access to advanced threat emulation.
- **2024-07** — Version 4.3 added visual attack-flow design, automated purple-team assessment capture, security-tool integrations, and vulnerability-validation scoring.

## Links

- Website: https://scythe.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scythe-io
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/scythe_io
- GitHub: https://github.com/scythe-io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SCYTHE_io

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Last updated: 2026-08-22