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What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era

Picus Security argues that breach and attack simulation (BAS) must evolve from human-driven processes to autonomous, AI-powered systems to keep pace with rapidly emerging threats, noting that frontier AI models have broken the previous symmetry where converting a major threat into working simulation content within 24 hours was considered fast. The company emphasizes the need for BAS to leverage AI to automatically generate and update attack simulations, reducing reliance on manual red teams.

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Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into something that will actually run against your controls. That somebody has always been a human red team. Up until a few months ago, turning a major new threat into working simulation content within 24 hours counted as very fast. Frontier AI models broke the symmetry. In the post-Mythos era, … More

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