What is breach and attack simulation?

Threat emulation schedule with dates, sources, statuses, and a vulnerabilities list with severity and fix status.

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) continuously runs safe, emulated attack techniques against your environment to test whether your security controls detect and block them. It validates control behaviour at scale and on a schedule. What it does not do is prove that a specific path into your systems is exploitable in practice.

Where BAS stops

A technique blocked in isolation can still be part of a working chain. Chains combine business-logic flaws, misconfiguration and legitimate functionality, which are the parts a technique library does not contain.

Safe emulation stops short of exploitation by design, so something is always left unproven. And business-logic vulnerabilities are largely invisible to it, because they depend on what your application is for and no generic library encodes that.

So a clean BAS dashboard and a genuinely exploitable path can coexist. That is not a criticism of the category: it is what the category was built to do, and what it was not built to do. Strike does not sell a BAS platform. Threat Emulations pursue exploitability rather than control coverage.

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Where Strike fits alongside BAS

BAS replays known attacker techniques against your controls on a schedule. Strike answers the question that leaves open: on this application, with this logic and these permissions, what can actually be reached and proven exploitable right now.

The coverage is deliberately different. Strike runs continuous Threat Emulations against web applications and APIs, including business-logic flaws that no library of pre-built techniques can contain, because they only exist in your product.

Nothing reaches you unvalidated: exploitability is confirmed and every finding is validated by experts before delivery, so what lands in your queue is a proven path rather than one more alert to triage. Strike does not sell a BAS platform and does not replace one.

Our solution architecture

A centralized platform that combines continuous asset monitoring, autonomous threat emulation, and expert remediation support—powered by AI agents, human validation, and a dedicated governance team.

ALWAYS-ON PLATFORM

What Strike proves that control validation cannot

Strike does not sell a BAS platform. Threat Emulations pursue exploitability: AI-led execution against an authorised scope, with expert human validation before customer delivery, so a finding arrives reproduced rather than asserted.

In-depth continuous testing

Strikers uncover high-impact vulnerabilities across multi-technology environments (web apps, APIs, mobile, cloud, and more).

AI-led retesting on-demand

Validate fixes without waiting for the next testing cycle. Retesting availability depends on the subscribed scope.

Real-time fixing

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AI agents guide your team step-by-step through remediation to accelerate resolution.

Step-by-step Threat emulation creation

Easily scope, launch, and track your Threat emulation with full transparency.

Human triaging & peer review

Expert human validation before customer delivery, for accuracy and impact.

Full visibility

Track every finding with complete transparency through security expert work logs and real-time notifications.

Seamless integrations

Connect directly with Slack, Teams and Jira to streamline collaboration with your security and development teams.

Vulnerability Manager

Visualize, manage, and retest vulnerabilities in one platform, with full context on severity, sources, and remediation.

Reporting that supports audit and compliance programs

Generate up-to-date reports with evidence per finding to support your PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 programs. Strike does not issue SOC 2 reports, ISO certificates or PCI DSS attestations.

Ongoing partnership

Weekly check-ins with a dedicated Customer Success Manager, plus personalized onboarding and strategic planning.

BAS watches your controls for drift. Continuous validation tells you what is actually reachable. They are complements, not substitutes.

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