Trying to defend everything leaves you thin everywhere, and the adversaries targeting you know it. Alchemy shows you who is most likely to target you, how they get in, and where you’re exposed. Then we optimize detections to spot them when they circumvent your defenses, respond when it counts, and provide hardening recommendations for what they’d hit first.
Generic MDR watches the whole environment and tells you it’s covered. It rarely tells you what matters first, and that’s where teams lose ground.
Most security reports count alerts and tickets closed. That leaves the real question open: would the attack your sector actually faces be caught, and how fast?
You’re asked to protect every path at once while attackers only need one. Breadth without focus spreads you thin.
Leadership wants a clear answer on priorities, and “we monitor everything” doesn’t give them one.
7,946 organizations were listed on adversary leak sites in 2025. 2026 is at 7,268 and on pace for 9,899. These are the adversaries’ own claims and a floor: anyone who settles before publication never appears.
Source: Athanor. Leak-site listings by year; 2026 is year to date.
The mechanism doesn’t change between clients. Only the threat profile does. We read the adversary’s playbook first, then point your defenses at it.
Your threat profile from Athanor: the criminal and nation-state actors with motive and history in your sector, and why now.
The techniques they actually use, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and to the paths and assets they’d touch in your stack.
Your external attack surface and the key attack vectors, where those methods would land first.
Detections optimized weekly, response when something real fires, and hardening recommendations ranked by likelihood and impact. Reported in plain language.
The model stays the same. The threat profile changes.
Two things land on your desk: a monthly summary of who’s active against your sector and what we’re actually catching, and a role-based exposure read on who inside your organization is being aimed at. Here’s the shape of both.
One service pointed at the threats most likely to target you, on the stack you already own. You get a ranked, defensible view of what matters first, and a team that acts on it.
24×7 managed detection and response on the stack you already own. No rip-and-replace: 900+ detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, prioritized by your threat profile, so the telemetry you pay for does real defensive work.
High-context analysts on the bridge during real incidents, plus the readiness work that makes the response faster.
Your exposure, mapped against the methods your adversaries actually use, and ranked recommendations for the gaps they’d use first. Written down and reviewable.
A manufacturer, a payments company, and a hospital draw different adversaries with different motives. Different motives mean different attackers, entry points, and risks to prepare for. We build detection, response, and hardening recommendations around the adversaries targeting you.
Identity-layer attacks and pressure on software, cloud, and relationships drive exposure through credentials, supply chain, and trusted paths. Beyond downtime, the risk is the attacker arriving through your relationships.
ATHANOR · The largest espionage presence of any lane: 14 of 46 actors are espionage-motivated, including 8 China-nexus groups.
Both a ransomware and a fraud problem, plus nation-state-linked theft across payments and credentials. Treat it only as ransomware and you under-defend theft. We frame value around payment abuse, credential abuse, and disruption.
ATHANOR · Financially driven: 31 of 36 actors with stated targeting are financially motivated, from ransomware crews to North Korea’s state-backed theft groups.
High ransomware pressure, sensitive data exposure, and research/IP targeting. This is operational resilience as much as compliance: cyber failure affects continuity, trust, and care.
ATHANOR · High and steady: 34 of 44 actors with stated healthcare targeting run ransomware.
Cities, counties, courts, school districts, and universities run essential services on tight budgets and aging systems. Ransomware crews know downtime forces fast decisions, and resident and student records raise the stakes.
ATHANOR · Ransomware-led with a state layer: 32 of 42 actors with stated state, local, or education targeting are criminal. The rest are China- and Iran-nexus state groups.
Payment data, loyalty accounts, and e-commerce credentials draw fraud crews and extortion groups alike. Attacks cluster around peak selling seasons, when downtime costs the most and teams are stretched thinnest.
ATHANOR · Criminal crews dominate, from point-of-sale card-theft specialists to today’s social-engineering and data-extortion groups. Only 2 of 20 profiled actors bring a state agenda.
A smaller but sharp lane with an unusually high mix of nation-state and high-profile actor interest. You may be defending a high-visibility environment with geopolitical attention and exposed people, which generic MDR misses.
ATHANOR · Criminal extortion alongside Russia-nexus operations against international sporting bodies and China-nexus interest in gaming.
Criminal ransomware and nation-state espionage collide here: a two-front risk of operational disruption and strategic IP theft. The conversation is which actors target manufacturing, how they get in, and whether detection matches those paths.
ATHANOR · Ransomware-led: 37 of the 46 actors with stated manufacturing targeting run ransomware.
The model travels. If your threat profile is real and consequential, we can map it. Best fit is about exposure and maturity as much as industry.
Map my threat profile →Founded in 2007, recognized by Gartner as leading specialists in SIEM deployment and ongoing operations, and a Splunk Partnerverse Manage Elite partner. The analysts who build your detections are the ones who answer when they fire.
A major payments and communications provider stood up a 24×7 MDR program with Alchemy. Eighteen months in, we caught a live attack on a core payment system three days before their busiest day of the year, and helped eradicate it before disruption.
Alchemy Security’s reporting helps me communicate the value of our security investment to my leadership and board, that provides a complete view of what is happening in our environment: threats, log health, open incidents, and key metrics.
When the postmortem was completed, the client observed that we were consistently a day ahead of analysis and findings compared to their outside IR provider, largely because we were so intimately tuned in to their environment.
A Cyber Resilience Assessment maps the adversaries most likely to target your sector against the coverage you have today, then tells you, plainly, what to do first.