Mafifrizi/ARES

The open-core platform empowering enterprise red teams, MSSPs, and security operations centers to execute targeted offensive engagements, discover deterministic attack paths, and continuously validate defensive posture with deterministic scope enforcement and fail-closed isolation controls.

Traditional penetration testing is fundamentally flawed: it is expensive, episodic, point-in-time, and leaves organizations blind to newly introduced misconfigurations and emerging adversary tradecraft. Meanwhile, automated vulnerability scanners overwhelm SOC teams with thousands of hypothetical CVEs without demonstrating exploitability or multi-stage lateral attack paths.

ARES bridges this gap. Built from the ground up for modern enterprise infrastructure, ARES delivers an operator-directed red team engagement platform that models real-world threat actors. By combining deterministic application-layer ScopeGuard fail-closed enforcement, adaptive OPSEC noise profiling, an interactive directed acyclic graph (DAG) attack solver, and 66 active production execution modules (70 total catalogued) covering 60+ mapped adversary techniques across MITRE ATT&CK, ARES allows security teams to prove vulnerability exploitability, locate shortest compromise paths to Active Directory Crown Jewels, and generate executive-ready deliverables with zero operational downtime.