The Evolved Security Playbook

Advanced defense against advanced adversaries.

Sphinx’s Evolved Security Playbook fuses intelligence tradecraft with modern security engineering, enabling organizations to stay ahead of sophisticated threats. Our expert-led services span threat intelligence, adversary simulation, and managed detection — delivering comprehensive defense across cyber, intelligence, and physical domains.

The Landscape · Advanced Adversaries Accelerate

Traditional defense was built for yesterday’s attackers. The threat has already evolved.

Advanced adversaries now operate across cyber, physical, and intelligence domains simultaneously — with dwell times shrinking and the line between unknown and known threats collapsing. Organizations that defend one domain at a time fall behind. The ones that close the gap integrate their detection, response, and intelligence into a single posture.

Multi-Domain

Threats transcend cyber, physical, and intelligence domains simultaneously, requiring integrated defense strategies.

Accelerating

Dwell time shrinks, threat velocity increases. Detection and response windows compress exponentially.

Black-to-White Swan

Unknown threats become known threats at scale. Adversary evolution outpaces traditional intelligence cycles.

Ubiquitous

Threats operate in supply chains, third-party ecosystems, and critical infrastructure. No perimeter is secure.

Capabilities · What Sphinx Delivers

Core counterintelligence,
cyber, and security
mission capabilities.

Sphinx delivers these capabilities across Defense & Intelligence, Homeland Security, the Defense Industrial Base, and Fortune 500 clients — with cleared personnel and six federal contract vehicles including GSA MAS, OASIS+, SeaPort NxG, DLITE II, MDA SHIELD, and CDAO Tradewinds.

Counterintelligence Mission Support

Insider Threat Program Support

Threat Intelligence

Full-Spectrum Cyber Assessments

Threat Actor Detection and Response

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Cybersecurity Engineering and Modernization

Technical Program and SETA Support

The Playbook · Discover, Neutralize, Act

Capabilities packaged into repeatable Evolved Security Playbook offerings.

The Evolved Security Playbook is how Sphinx delivers the capabilities above as scoped, repeatable engagements. We prefer firm-fixed-price engagements with clearly defined service levels and mission outcomes. The Playbook is an end-to-end service delivery model with three core domains: Discover, Neutralize, Act.

Discover

Identify adversary capabilities, intent, and tactics through threat intelligence and adversary emulation.

Neutralize

Active defense, detection, and response — neutralizing threats before they impact the mission.

Helix Intelligence-driven cyber defense
- Helix.Detect
- Helix.Protect
- Helix.Respond

Act

Small teams of Sphinx SMEs converging on the mission problem — sharpening strategy, readiness, and operations.

SWARM Strategy, Wargames, Advisory, Readiness, Modernization

The Outcome · Resilience as a Competitive Advantage

Security teams measure incidents. ESP customers measure outcomes.

ESP is built to change what the board sees at the end of the quarter — not just what the SOC sees on the dashboard. Organizations that adopt it turn their security posture into a market differentiator, get left of theft before adversaries reach the crown jewels, and protect the critical data and IP that competitors can’t replicate.

Make Security a Market Differentiator

Transform security from cost center to competitive advantage. Advanced security posture attracts enterprise customers, partners, and investors, while reducing risk premiums and insurance costs.

Get Left of Theft

Detect and neutralize threats before they achieve objectives. Threat intelligence, threat hunting, and adversary simulation enable early intervention in attack chains, protecting your crown jewels.

Protect Your Critical Data & IP

Safeguard intellectual property, trade secrets, and sensitive operations. Our defense-in-depth approach spans detection, response, and resilience — ensuring adversaries cannot achieve their endgame.

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