Pentera Platform vs Skyhawk Security BAS

Pentera Platform validates security controls by emulating attacks, helping security teams identify proven exposure and support remediation. Its Core, Surface, and Cloud offerings cover internal networks, external attack surfaces, and cloud environments; listed coverage also includes web applications, endpoints, servers, services, and network devices. Simulations are agentless, can run continuously, and map to MITRE ATT&CK. Pentera Resolve prioritizes validated attack paths and supports remediation and retesting to check for reduced exposure. Pentera Peer provides an AI-native interface for analyzing adversarial testing, including natural-language queries about findings and validated paths. For production use, customer-controlled safeguards include throttling, impact limits, emergency stops, optional read-only modes, and audit logs. Listed integrations include AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, GitHub, CrowdStrike, and Microsoft Defender. Pentera says AI data is hashed and encrypted, not used for model training, and not retained by Pentera. The platform is paid, with pricing on request. Pentera was founded in 2015.

Skyhawk Security BAS is a cloud SaaS Breach and Attack Simulation platform for cloud security teams and MSSPs. It runs custom, agentless attack simulations against a digital twin of cloud architecture and security controls, which Skyhawk says avoids affecting production systems or people. Continuous rehearsals validate controls, improve detection accuracy, and help shape response playbooks; teams can also check automated responses before production deployment. Validated exposures are prioritized by the business value of the affected asset. Listed attack surfaces include identities and permissions, vulnerabilities, attack paths, and high-value cloud assets, with MITRE ATT&CK mapping, custom scenarios, and continuous scheduling. The platform supports AWS, Azure, and GCP through API-based integration. Findings can come from Wiz, AWS Inspector, GuardDuty, Macie, and Tenable. Jira and ServiceNow integrations support remediation tracking. Pricing is on request, with a free 30-day trial.