Case Study: ICON achieves continuous validation of security controls and full kill-chain visibility with SafeBreach

ICON Validates Security Controls With SafeBreach

ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services, needed a faster, more consistent way to identify security risks and prove that protections worked in a highly regulated environment. To achieve this, ICON turned to SafeBreach and its breach-and-attack simulation platform (using the Hacker’s Playbook™) to automate and standardize security validation across its global infrastructure.

SafeBreach was deployed to run thousands of simulated attacker techniques continuously and safely, giving ICON complete kill‑chain visibility into infiltration, lateral movement and exfiltration. The solution validated SOC alerts and response times, delivered weekly simulation-driven security metrics to leadership, sped up testing compared with annual penetration tests, and reduced security exposure across use cases such as secure web gateway rollouts, IDS→IPS migration and M&A integrations.

ICON

Tony Clarke

Head of Information Security