By Sila Özeren Hacioglu, Security Research Engineer at Picus Security.
Security teams are drowning in threat intelligence.
Every day brings with it reports of new malware campaigns, novel C2 channels, bespoke evasion tricks, and stealthier persistence methods. These insights are essential for staying ahead of adversaries, but intelligence alone isn’t enough.
Knowing how attackers operate is only half the battle. The real test is proving that your defenses will actually stop them in your own environment. Not in a lab, not on paper, but across your real-world systems, configurations, and users.
For years, Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) solutions have helped security teams stay ahead by safely simulating adversary behavior and demonstrating the effectiveness of existing controls. These platforms deliver value, but they’re only as strong as the threat libraries behind them.
The more mature solutions allow custom threat creation, yet building and simulating new attacks takes significant time and expertise. Meanwhile, the sheer volume of emerging threats is outpacing the bandwidth that most teams have to be able to translate this all into executable validation.
AI rewrites that equation. With AI-driven BAS, security teams can now translate a threat intelligence report into a repeatable attack simulation that delivers evidence of exposure or resilience in minutes.
The Bottleneck: Turning Intelligence Into Action
The fact is that for most enterprises, threat intelligence isn’t scarce. Far from it, it’s become overwhelming. Every month, hundreds of technical blogs dissect new malware families, examine attack chains, and parse adversary campaigns. For security teams, the real challenge isn’t access to intelligence but the relentless pace at which it keeps arriving.
Adversaries are moving faster, too. New groups and campaigns emerge across regions, tailoring their malicious tradecraft to specific industries. As Picus Security’s Red Report 2025 shows, attackers now use AI as a kind of co-pilot to accelerate coding, debugging, and refining techniques. The result is a nonstop stream of attack chains, giving adversaries more time to perfect stealthy, persistent methods.
What matters most to an organization isn’t the latest headline, but whether its defenses can withstand the existing and new threats being tailored to its sector, geography, and risk profile. Validating those targeted scenarios, however, often means submitting requests, waiting for custom builds, and delaying answers when they’re needed most.
BAS vendors have made significant progress, expanding their threat libraries and enabling teams to simulate a wide range of adversary behaviors. Yet even with these advances, creating new scenarios often depends on expert red teams interpreting reports, crafting payloads, and validating simulations.
It’s a solid model, but it’s also one that can be elevated and scaled. With adversaries now adapting in hours, there’s a real opportunity to rapidly convert raw intelligence into validated simulations, closing the gap between threat discovery and defense.
It is time to supercharge Breach and Attack Simulation with AI.
The Solution: BAS with AI Delivers Proof on Demand
Using AI, today, threat intelligence of any kind, as well as technical reports, advisories, or analysis, can now be transformed by your BAS vendor into safe, executable simulations.
The result: assurance, delivered faster than ever. Together, AI and BAS can deliver:
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On-demand validation. New threat intelligence can be operationalized in hours, instead of days or weeks, so your team knows immediately whether defenses are holding.
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Risk clarity. Instead of endless vulnerability lists, you see which exposures, such as known exploited CVEs, are actually weaponizable in your environment, and which aren’t.
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Measurable ROI. Every control can be tested against real attacker behaviors, showing which investments are legitimately reducing risk and which require adjustment.
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Board-ready assurance. Each simulation comes with business-level reporting: where you’re secure, where you’re exposed, and how much your remediation efforts are reducing risk over time.
The resulting shift is simple but profound: AI-powered BAS transforms the flood of intelligence into timely proof of exposure.
It equips leaders to brief executives with confidence, intelligently and precisely allocate resources, and keep defenses aligned at the speed of adversaries.
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The Bottom Line: Proof or Assumptions?
For security teams, the status quo has become untenable.
Current approaches leave organizations drowning in threat intelligence reports, unable to keep pace with an avalanche of threats. And when credible threats go untested, neither stakeholders, regulators, nor boards are satisfied. Too often, when something slips through, they invariably want to know: “What did we know, and when? And did we test?”
AI-powered BAS resolves this. It bridges the gap between intelligence and proof by transforming any report or advisory into a safe, repeatable simulation. The result is evidence-backed assurance that you can actually count on:
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Your team gets clearer priorities and the ability to more intelligently use their time and resources.
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Your program gets measurable ROI by showing which investments are tangibly reducing risk.
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Your board gets confidence, now backed by evidence, not assumptions
And that’s just the beginning of what AI brings to BAS.
To learn more, join us at The Picus BAS Summit 2025: Redefining Attack Simulation through AI, where you’ll hear directly from industry leaders, analysts, and CISOs on how BAS is co-evolving with AI and what that means for security validation.
We’ll cover:
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The reasons why BAS has become a cornerstone of modern security validation
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Why AI is the inevitable next step, closing the gap between intelligence and action
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Real-world use cases from CISOs and practitioners who’re relying on BAS
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A first look at Picus’ AI-powered BAS solution, the first of its kind
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