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SafeBreach Propagate
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If you’ve decided relying on annual penetration tests isn’t enough anymore (smart move), the next question is: “What’s the best way to continuously prove — and improve — our internal security posture?”
There’s no shortage of platforms out there promising to be your automated red team, internal pentester, or attack-surface explorer. But dig deeper, and you’ll see not all of them are built the same. And for mid-sized security teams, those differences matter. A lot.
The Problem with Most “Automated Pentest” Tools Today
Many platforms claiming to replace pentests do one of these things:
- Run a battery of known exploits.
They’ll see if your EDR or firewall catches them. While this is great for compliance reports, real attackers don’t just launch known malware—they explore new ways in. - Simulate attacks, but only along pre-defined paths.
They’ll start with a set of scripts and see if controls fire. But if one route is blocked, they stop. That’s nothing like a human attacker, who changes tactics on the fly. - Focus mostly on external exploitability.
They’re excellent at showing which Internet-facing services are vulnerable (and that’s useful). But once they’re “inside,” they rarely show how malware could spread—the real nightmare scenario.
What You Actually Need: An Internal “Blast Radius” Map
Here’s the harsh reality: When someone slips through your perimeter—and eventually, someone will—your biggest risk is how far they can move inside. You don’t want a tool that says:
“Congrats, your firewall caught these 12 CVEs.”
You want a solution that safely acts like an intruder already inside your environment to:
- Harvest real credentials (not pre-fed)
- Try different lateral movements and privilege escalation paths
- Discover how your segmentation, credential hygiene, and EDR actually hold up under stealthy attacks
That’s how you find the unknown paths to your critical data— and close them—before a real attacker does.
Why This Matters Even More for Mid-Sized Security Teams
If you’re a Fortune 100 with dozens of red teamers on staff, you can run these scenarios manually every month. But mid-sized security teams don’t have that luxury. Those teams are likely juggling endpoint hardening, phishing simulations, and SaaS risk assessments—on top of all the other IT fires.
If this sounds familiar, you need a solution that:
- Thinks like a hacker, without you needing to.
- Runs continuously, so you’re not stuck with a stale snapshot.
- Provides prioritized remediation guidance, so you know exactly what to fix first.
- Doesn’t break production or eat up days of engineering time.
How Our Approach Is Different (and Built for You)
So why are mid-sized security teams finding success with our automated pentesting solution, SafeBreach Propagate? Because it was designed from the ground up to:
Start from an assumed breach—then explore like an attacker.
We don’t just replay known exploits. We start inside your network—like an attacker who’s already gotten through the door—and then:
- Look for credentials on real hosts
- Try different lateral paths (not just pre-scripted ones)
- Escalate privileges if possible
- And map out exactly how far an attacker could get to identify your real blast radius
As a result, you see precisely what’s exposed, not just what triggers a detection.
Provide empirical evidence, not just theoretical risk.
It’s one thing to say, “If credentials were exposed, here’s what could happen.”
It’s another to show, “We found these actual credentials on these endpoints, used them to hop to these systems, and here’s the data we could access.”
That’s the kind of evidence boards, insurers, and regulators take seriously—because it’s not a hypothetical.
Automate safely—with guardrails mid-sized orgs need.
Unlike some tools that aggressively run exploit chains with minimal safety checks, we’ve built in:
- Credential validation (so we don’t lock out accounts)
- Scoped IP & port ranges (to avoid scanning unintended segments)
- System stability checks (to keep your critical workloads humming)
This means you get all the realism of a skilled internal attacker without the business disruption of risky scripts or agents that overload endpoints.
Deliver prioritized, actionable remediation.
Instead of dumping a huge list of possible issues on your desk, our reports:
- Show exactly which machines, credentials, and lateral paths put you most at risk
- Include tailored, control-specific remediation steps
- Track your exposure over time, so you can demonstrate improvement month by month
For lean security teams, that means you can focus your limited hours on fixing what matters most—and prove the impact continuously.
The Bottom Line
Most of the flashy “automated pentest” tools out there were built to quickly test if known exploits fire or to check off boxes for PCI, HIPAA, or SOC2 reports.
That’s useful—but it won’t show you how far ransomware could spread inside your network, which credentials would get abused, or which crown jewels could be accessed. You need a solution that acts like an attacker, not just a compliance bot.
That’s why more mid-sized security teams rely on SafeBreach Propagate. We’re not just replaying old attacks; we’re mapping your actual internal blast radius—continuously, safely, and with evidence you can take straight to the board.
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