What is the purpose of BAS?

To protect against the increasing frequency and sophistication of cybercrime, organizations are deploying a variety of security solutions. This leads to an increase in the complexity and scale of the security landscape, especially as today both environments (on-premises and multi-cloud) need to be protected.

Most organizations have comprehensive security plans, but questions remain:

• Are we using the right security solutions and mechanisms?  
• Are the solutions configured correctly?
• Are they protecting us from the latest attack techniques and threats?
• Are the solutions properly integrated into the SOC?
• Are we using the right detection use cases?
• What is our actual threat detection coverage?
• Is our SOC and company responding correctly to the relevant signals and alerts from the cyber defense platform?
• What gaps and risks do we have and how are they changing?
• What is the impact of changes in our IT and security landscape?

Breach and attack simulation is used to continuously test an organization's security mechanisms and evaluate them using real attack methods. As a control and management tool for cyber defense, BAS verifies the effectiveness of security controls in place, identifies vulnerabilities and risks, and helps prioritize and verify the actions to be taken.

Who should do BAS?

BAS is ideal for organizations that have already achieved a certain level of cyber defense maturity and want to actively control and manage the risks and quality of their cyber defense. This is especially true for companies that operate in a complex IT environment with a lot of change, or that are highly regulated due to the industry they operate in.

What is the added value of BAS?

BAS provides visibility into cyber defenses, enables proactive risk mitigation, and supports focused strategic development of cyber defenses.

• Continuous security control validation
• Security Evaluation
• Identification of vulnerabilities
• Risk analysis and prioritization of measures
• Quality assurance
• Reporting and compliance

Process

Automated Validation - Differentiation

Within Automated Validation, we offer different services that complement each other and serve different purposes:

Unlike traditional penetration testing and automated pentesting, BAS works on dedicated customer reference systems (the simulators) and the attacks do not take place on the production endpoint systems. This eliminates the possibility of adversely affecting production systems and applications.