Architecture

Mission Objective

OPFORGE is designed to answer a practical question:

Can a defensive system detect, interpret, and respond to realistic adversary behavior under repeatable conditions?

The platform creates a controlled environment where adversary tradecraft, telemetry pipelines, and defensive logic can be tested together.

Architecture Principles

The architecture is built around five principles:

1. realistic enough to matter
2. structured enough to repeat
3. observable enough to measure
4. modular enough to evolve
5. useful enough to inform defense

Core Components

Segmented Network Design

The environment uses segmented infrastructure to create meaningful boundaries between services, endpoints, logging layers, and adversary-controlled systems.

Host Telemetry Collection

Endpoints and servers are instrumented to support detailed observation of system activity during emulation events.

Network Telemetry Collection

Network visibility is used to observe movement, access patterns, and communications that may not be obvious from host logs alone.

Analytics and Detection Layer

Collected telemetry is centralized so detections, dashboards, and validation workflows can be assessed together.

Adversary Emulation Layer

Adversary behavior is introduced in a controlled manner so the environment can be tested against realistic tradecraft.

Validation Workflow

A typical OPFORGE validation cycle looks like this:

1. select adversary behavior
2. define expected telemetry and detection hypotheses
3. execute the activity
4. review observability
5. assess whether detections worked
6. refine logic, telemetry, or workflow
7. repeat until the result is useful