FIT3211 Adversary simulation and emulation

This unit introduces the principles and practices of adversary simulation and adversary emulation as approaches to evaluating and improving organisational security. It focuses on understanding how attackers operate through tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and how these behaviours can be systematically reproduced using structured attack frameworks in controlled environments. You will learn how to apply adversary simulation techniques to execute and analyse individual attack behaviours to test and validate detection and defensive controls. Building on this, you will learn how to design and conduct adversary emulation scenarios that replicate the behaviour of real-world threat actors across multiple stages of an attack lifecycle. You will also learn how to translate threat intelligence into structured and executable adversary scenarios, and produce findings that inform improvements to organisational security controls, while adhering to ethical and professional standards.