Introducing Tropico: Preemptive Cyber Defense Through Adversary Engagement

We are thrilled to introduce Tropico, a new cybersecurity platform designed to give defenders the tools to engage threats proactively, not just reactively.

Tropico turns your infrastructure into a sensor grid. By engaging adversaries early and extracting high-value telemetry from their behavior, our system surfaces actionable intelligence and provides early warning signals, before real systems are compromised.

Meet the Founding Team

Tropico is led by a team of builders with deep experience across cybersecurity, go-to market strategy and finance:

Alessandro Raponi – Sales & Marketing
Strategic mind with a proven track record in go-to-market execution, partnerships and scaling early-stage ventures in tech and cybersecurity

Carlo de Micheli – Product & Technology
Experienced engineer and product architect with hands-on experience in offensive and defensive security and scalable infrastructure

Antonio Costagliola – Finance & Operations
Finance professional with strong expertise in capital strategy, fundraising and managing complex, high-stakes processes in fast-paced environments

Together, we've built Tropico to address one of the most urgent challenges in cybersecurity: gaining the upper hand through intelligent adversary engagement.

Turning Intrusions into Insights

Tropico is built around a simple vision: becoming the last line of cyber defense.

Our platform deploys a distributed network of interactive systems across enterprise environments. These systems aren't just passive observers, they actively engage with scanning activity, intrusion attempts, and lateral movement, transforming every probe into an opportunity to learn.

Every interaction is logged, correlated, and analyzed. We apply advanced signal extraction techniques across these noisy attack surfaces to isolate early indicators of malicious behavior. From there, Tropico builds predictive profiles and triggers alerts based on patterns we've previously seen in real-world attack scenarios.

Why Now: From Passive Monitoring to Active Defense

Traditional security tools are reactive. By the time alerts are triggered, the adversary is often already inside.

Tropico offers this as its basic service via internal emulators, but also shifts the paradigm with preemptive defense, not only detecting attacks in progress, but identifying malicious intent before breaches occur.

This is done via external emulators. Our system continuously learns from adversary behavior targeting both the clients' networks and the outside world. It's designed to reduce noise and detect signals of imminent attacks in high-stakes, complex environments where the cost of failure is enormous, including space systems, industrial infrastructure, and defense-grade networks.

Designed for Adversary Engagement

Where legacy tools wait for problems to surface, Tropico invites attackers into high-fidelity simulations that mirror your actual systems. This environment is designed to keep adversaries engaged, not blocked, so we can watch, learn, and respond intelligently.

Our platform is already proving its value:

• Autonomous deployment at scale
• Live engagements across space and critical infrastructure networks
• Advanced telemetry processing to isolate signal from noise
• Predictive analytics built from real-world adversary behaviors

With Tropico, security teams can stop chasing alerts and start making informed, proactive decisions based on first-party threat intelligence generated in their own environment.

Tropico for Space Industry

Tropico was selected by the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre. We've brought together a world-class team of engineers, cybersecurity leaders, and AI researchers to bring this vision to life.

We have already released our first batch of AI powered emulators tailor-made for space that can replicate mission control interfaces, ground station software and satellite telemetry.

Our Vision

At Tropico, we believe adversary engagement is the next frontier of cybersecurity. Rather than playing catch-up, defenders can now go on the offensive, understanding their attackers, predicting their moves, and staying one step ahead.

This isn't science fiction. It's running today.

We're building Tropico because it must be built, and we're the right team to build it.

We're just getting started, and we'd love to hear from you. You can play around with our free emulators on github or you can ask for a trial by contacting our sales team.

If you're working on national infrastructure, security research, or operational resilience we want to talk.

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Let's change the game!

Let's build the future of adversary engagement!