Beyond the Breach: Why Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) is the Future of Cybersecurity

Security teams are under immense pressure. Traditional red teaming and annual penetration tests aren’t cutting it anymore. Breaches are no longer rare events; they’re expected. What matters now is what happens after the breach.

Enter Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART). CART is transforming how leading security teams approach validation, visibility, and readiness. And while many vendors are racing to rebrand as CART, only one platform was purpose-built to deliver what CART promises: SafeBreach.

What Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) Is

CART is a strategic shift away from periodic, manual red teaming toward a continuous, automated approach to adversarial testing. At its core, CART answers the critical question:

If an attacker gets in, how far can they go? And what can we do to stop them?

Continuous automated red teaming platforms simulate real-world attacker behavior—lateral movement, credential abuse, privilege escalation—continuously and safely. They validate whether existing security controls and detection systems will actually work when it counts.

Why CART Matters for Today’s Security Leaders

Security leaders at enterprise and mid-market organizations face several key challenges in today’s threat landscape:

• Manual pentesting doesn’t scale. Security teams can’t afford to wait months between tests—especially when environments change weekly.
• Internal blind spots persist. Even the best endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions can’t detect every path an attacker might take.
• Too many alerts. Teams are overwhelmed with theoretical risk data that lacks context or prioritization.
• Need for proof, not assumptions. Boards, auditors, insurers, and regulators want empirical evidence that internal defenses actually hold up.

Continuous automated red teaming platforms—when done right—solve all of these challenges

Comparing CART to Other Security Validation Models

The world of penetration testing and security validation has evolved. Here’s how CART compares to other models:

• Traditional Pentesting: Offers manual, point-in-time assessments often conducted annually or bi-annually. Valuable for compliance, but lacks continuity and context.
• Infrastructure Pentesting: Focuses on internal networks, endpoints, and systems. Often limited in scope and doesn’t emulate full attacker movement.
• Application Pentesting: Targets web apps, APIs, and software vulnerabilities. Important for development security, but not for lateral movement threats.
• Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS): Offers on-demand pentesting capabilities via cloud platforms. Adds convenience, but still often relies on human-led, scoped assessments.
• Attack Path Validation (APV): Identifies potential lateral movement and post-compromise actions within the network. (SafeBreach Propagate operates in this space when it is a stand-alone module.)
• Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART): Combines elements of BAS, APV, and red teaming into an automated, always-on simulation of post-breach attacker behavior. CART enables consistent internal validation across control points and the full attack lifecycle.

Why SafeBreach Is the Continuous Automated Red Teaming Platform That Delivers

Unlike tools that focus on initial access or phishing simulation, SafeBreach Propagate + Validate is designed to answer the real question: What happens next?

SafeBreach Propagate emulates lateral attacker movement, privilege escalation, and credential harvesting to quantify post-breach blast radius—safely, automatically, and continuously.

SafeBreach Validate uses the industry’s largest library of real-world attack methods to test control efficacy across the kill chain, delivering actionable, tool-specific remediation guidance.

Together, they form the industry’s most comprehensive Continuous Automated Red Teaming platform.

Key CART Capabilities from SafeBreach

• Continuous, safe internal red teaming that simulates credential abuse, remote code execution, lateral movement, and more.
• Empirical, evidence-based reports that support audit, compliance, and executive risk discussions.
• Customizable scope and controls to safely run simulations in production environments without disruption.
• Automated validation loops that re-run simulations to confirm fixes and prevent regression.
• Rich integrations with SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and ticketing tools for fast response and team alignment.

The Outcome: CART with Context

SafeBreach doesn’t just simulate attacks. We show you:

• Which paths attackers can exploit
• How far they can go
• Which controls stop them—and which don’t
• How to fix the gaps
• How to prove they are fixed

What Sets SafeBreach Apart

With our foundation in breach and attack simulation (BAS) and our evolution into full CART capabilities, SafeBreach leads the industry in continuous internal exposure validation. Our threat research team ensures that our attack methods mirror real-world tactics, while our enterprise-grade platform ensures safety, scale, and integration readiness.

We’re not just building a CART platform—we’re shaping the future of how security validation should be done.

Continuous Automated Red Teaming: A Must-Have for Enterprise Security Programs

The time for periodic point-in-time validation is over. Continuous Automated Red Teaming isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s a security imperative.

If you’re building a mature cyber resilience program, preparing for regulatory audits, or just trying to reduce your risk without hiring a dozen pentesters, SafeBreach is your CART solution.

Let’s move beyond the breach. Let’s close the blast radius. Schedule a personalized demo to see how we can do CART right together.