BlackNoise BAS vs Stratus Red Team

BlackNoise BAS is a web, self-hosted breach and attack simulation platform for validating cyber defenses and operational readiness. It continuously runs scenarios covering APTs, ransomware, insider threats, data breaches, and state-sponsored attacks across networks, Windows, Linux, macOS, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Scenarios can be customized, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, scheduled continuously, and run automatically or step by step. Users set scope and execution parameters. Strategic and tactical dashboards show cybersecurity performance scores and KPIs such as mean time to detect and respond. The threat library uses indicators of compromise, tactics, techniques, procedures, and timestamps, and provides environment-tailored Sigma, Yara, and Suricata rules. Each executed event has detailed web-application logs, while simulation timelines can be exported. BlackNoise describes the platform as agentless, zero-trust compatible, and governed by a full log policy. Deployment options include SaaS, a dedicated environment, or on-premise. The maker says simulations can support PCI DSS control validation and audit evidence. Pricing is on request, and the product page offers a demo request.

Stratus Red Team is a free, open-source Go binary for running specific offensive attack techniques against a live cloud environment and checking detections. Its techniques map to MITRE ATT&CK, with coverage for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Entra ID. For each technique, it can prepare prerequisites, detonate the activity, reverse side effects, and remove prerequisites. Terraform creates and removes required infrastructure, and Stratus downloads its own Terraform binary. Installation options include Go, Homebrew, pre-built Linux, Windows, and macOS binaries, and Docker. The tool can also operate as a Go library for automation and custom techniques. It supports Linux, macOS, Windows, API use, and self-hosting. Documentation recommends an administrator role in a sandbox account or test cluster, not production infrastructure. Kubernetes clusters must already exist, AWS customer-provided detonation infrastructure is unsupported, and Azure resources are fixed to West US.