Automated Pentesting vs BAS: What's the Difference?

This whitepaper contrasts Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) with automated penetration testing, explaining that BAS assesses control effectiveness across ATT&CK techniques while automated pentesting validates exploitable attack paths; it argues the two are complementary within Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and promotes Picus's converged platform (autonomous pentesting, exposure validation, and BAS) to correlate exploitability with control performance.