Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS)
Continuous, automated attack simulation across the full kill chain — validating whether your endpoint security, email gateway, web proxy, SIEM, and EDR actually detect and prevent the threats your organisation faces right now.
Continuous · Scenario-Driven · Point-in-Time Gap Analysis
Three BAS deployment modes — from always-on continuous validation to threat-intel-driven scenario simulation and comprehensive security control gap analysis.
Automated Continuous Validation
Agents deployed on-premise or cloud — continuously executing production-safe attack simulations across endpoint, email, network, and web vectors. Alerting in real time when a control drifts or fails to detect a known technique.
- Endpoint EPP/EDR bypass simulation against live production agents
- Email gateway malware and phishing delivery validation
- Web proxy and content filtering control testing
- Lateral movement simulation across network segments
- C2 callback simulation against egress filtering controls
- Real-time drift alerting when control effectiveness changes
Threat Intelligence-Driven Scenarios
Attack scenarios mapped to active threat actor TTPs — allowing you to answer 'are we protected against LockBit / Scattered Spider right now?' with empirical evidence from your production environment, not vendor benchmarks or assumptions.
- Ransomware TTP simulation (LockBit, ALPHV, Cl0p playbooks)
- APT campaign simulation (Scattered Spider, TA505 techniques)
- Supply chain and living-off-the-land (LotL) technique coverage
- Credential theft and LSASS access simulation
- Data exfiltration to external destinations
- Custom TTP scenario development for your specific threat model
Security Control Gap Analysis
A structured point-in-time engagement using BAS tooling to comprehensively map your current security stack's detection and prevention coverage against the MITRE ATT&CK framework — identifying exactly which techniques bypass your controls and why.
- Full MITRE ATT&CK technique coverage sweep vs. your stack
- Per-control detection and prevention rate measurement
- Configuration drift identification — policy vs. actual reality
- Investment ROI scoring — cost per technique covered
- Specific configuration remediation guidance per gap identified
- Board-ready security posture scorecard with trend analysis
Your Security Controls Drift. BAS Tells You When.
EDR policies change. Email gateway rules get modified. Proxy exceptions accumulate. SIEM alerts get suppressed. Each change can silently create a detection gap. By the time your next annual penetration test runs, your actual posture may bear little resemblance to what your documentation assumes.
BAS continuously answers the question your leadership needs: "Are our security controls working right now?" Not from a point-in-time test six months ago — from a live simulation against your production environment today.
Kill Chain Coverage
Initial access through data exfiltration — validated across every stage
Real-Time Drift Alerts
Immediate notification when a control fails or configuration changes
Threat-Intel Updated
Scenario library updated with emerging TTPs as threat landscape evolves
Board Scorecard
Security posture scored and trended for executive and board reporting
5-Phase BAS Deployment Methodology
From environment mapping through continuous simulation, drift analysis, and a board-ready posture scorecard with prioritised remediation roadmap.
Deployment & Environment Mapping
BAS agent deployment and network topology mapping — identifying all control points to be validated (endpoint agents, email gateways, proxy/web filtering, SIEM/EDR integrations, cloud egress controls) and establishing baseline configuration snapshots for ongoing drift comparison.
Kill Chain Scenario Library Configuration
Selecting and configuring the attack scenario library against your specific threat model — mapping active threat actor TTPs (ransomware, APT, insider threat) to your industry sector and configuring execution parameters to ensure production-safe simulation at every stage of the kill chain.
Continuous Simulation Execution
Automated simulation execution across all configured vectors — endpoint techniques, email delivery tests, lateral movement sequences, C2 callback attempts, and data exfiltration scenarios — running continuously with per-technique detection and prevention outcome recorded each run.
Control Gap & Drift Analysis
Comparing simulation outcomes against expected control behaviour — identifying techniques that bypassed prevention and detection, correlating failures with specific control configurations, and flagging configuration drift where current control state diverges from the baseline snapshot.
Reporting & Remediation Guidance
Security posture scorecard by kill chain stage and control type, per-gap remediation guidance with specific configuration changes, investment ROI analysis, and a prioritised remediation backlog with expected posture improvement per fix.
Full Security Stack Coverage
Every control layer — from endpoint and email to lateral movement, exfiltration, and SIEM pipeline — validated with production-safe attack simulation.
Endpoint Security Validation
Testing whether your EPP/EDR detects and blocks malicious process execution, code injection, LSASS access, and credential theft techniques against live endpoints in your production environment — not a vendor lab.
Email Gateway Testing
Delivering known-malicious emails — weaponised Office documents, PDF exploits, HTML phishing lures, QR code attacks — to validate your email security gateway's filtering and sandboxing effectiveness against current threat actor delivery methods.
Web & Proxy Filtering
Simulating malicious web requests, drive-by download attempts, and C2 callback traffic to validate whether your web proxy and DNS filtering controls block malicious destinations and command-and-control channels in real time.
Lateral Movement Simulation
Executing common lateral movement techniques (SMB, WMI execution, PsExec, Pass-the-Hash) to validate whether your network segmentation and endpoint detection prevent internal propagation from a compromised endpoint.
Data Exfiltration Testing
Simulating data exfiltration via HTTP/HTTPS, DNS tunneling, cloud storage upload, and email to validate whether your DLP and egress filtering controls catch sensitive data leaving the environment.
SIEM & SOC Validation
Verifying that SIEM alerts are actually generated — and reach your SOC analysts — for each simulated technique, validating your detection pipeline end-to-end rather than assuming alert generation equals analyst visibility.
From Assumption to Assurance
BAS replaces the assumption that your controls work with continuous, empirical evidence that they do — or immediate intelligence that they have stopped working.
Continuous, Not Point-in-Time
BAS runs 24/7 — not once a year. Security control failures are identified within hours of a configuration change, not discovered 11 months later at your next penetration test engagement.
Production Safe
All simulations use inert, production-safe payloads. No live malware. No actual data exfiltration. No service disruption. Real attack techniques — safely executed against your real controls.
Threat-Intel Driven
Scenarios continuously updated to reflect active threat actors — ransomware groups, APT campaigns, emerging TTPs — ensuring validation is always relevant to the threats you face today, not last year.
Board-Ready Metrics
A security posture scorecard and investment ROI analysis gives your board a quantified, evidence-based answer to 'how secure are we?' — not a penetration test finding report that requires translation.
BAS Platforms & Frameworks We Use
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about breach and attack simulation
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Stop assuming your security controls are effective. BAS gives you continuous, empirical evidence — so your next board report answers "are we protected?" with data, not confidence.
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