Stratus Red Team vs Valitrix BAS Platform

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.

Valitrix BAS Platform is a breach and attack simulation platform that continuously checks security controls against adversary techniques mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Its library covers 200+ techniques across all 14 tactical categories. Agent-based simulations validate endpoint, email, network, and SIEM controls, using controlled, non-destructive synthetic payloads intended to avoid damage or production interruption. Teams can configure simulation scope, target systems, timing windows, and technique categories; Enterprise customers can add exclusions and restrict testing to selected network segments or system groups. Results are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK in real-time dashboards and exportable reports. Valitrix lists evidence reporting for ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and Cyber Essentials. Agents collect simulation telemetry and control-response data for reports, not underlying business data. Named SIEM validations include Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, and Elastic, while Enterprise API access supports workflows such as Jira and ServiceNow. Basic, Professional, and Enterprise tiers vary by agents, users, attack coverage, and support. Pricing is on request, and qualified Enterprise prospects can receive a scoped proof-of-concept engagement.