Mitigant is a cloud-native Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) platform. This section explains how AEV differs from traditional Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), and where Mitigant fits for teams evaluating BAS tools or cloud alternatives.

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Is Mitigant a breach and attack simulation (BAS) tool?

Mitigant is an Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) platform, the category Gartner defined to consolidate breach and attack simulation, penetration testing, and red teaming into continuous, evidence-based validation. It delivers what BAS promises but is built cloud-native and goes further: it executes real, safe attacks in the customer's own cloud rather than simulations in a sandbox. https://mitigant.io/en/blog/rethinking-cloud-security-strategies-with-adversarial-exposure-validation

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What is the difference between Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) and traditional BAS?

BAS is one of the three older categories, alongside penetration testing and red teaming, that AEV consolidates. Traditional BAS grew out of endpoint and network testing and added cloud later. AEV as Mitigant implements it is cloud-native from the ground up: real attacks across the cloud control plane and data plane, validating exploitability continuously. https://mitigant.io/en/blog/rethinking-cloud-security-strategies-with-adversarial-exposure-validation

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How is Mitigant different from traditional BAS tools?

• Cloud-native by design, covering AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud (plus Kubernetes posture), not cloud bolted onto endpoint/network testing.
• Real, safe, reversible attacks in the customer's live cloud with guardrails and automatic cleanup, not simulations against agents/sandboxes. https://mitigant.io/en/blog/cloud-attack-emulation-101-shallow-waters#attack-methodology-design-for-safety
• Agentless: Bring Your Own Role, run in minutes, no agents or simulator scripts to install.
• Attacks as attack-as-code in the Cloud Attack Language: chainable, reproducible, automatable. https://mitigant.io/en/blog/introducing-the-mitigant-threat-catalog-from-static-descriptions-to-dynamic-executions#cloud-attack-language

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Does Mitigant run real attacks or simulated ones?

Mitigant runs real, safe, reversible attacks in the customer's own cloud, with guardrails and automatic cleanup that leave no residual impact. Traditional BAS typically simulates against agents or sandboxes rather than the live environment. https://mitigant.io/en/blog/cloud-attack-emulation-101-shallow-waters#attack-methodology-design-for-safety

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Do organizations still need a separate BAS tool alongside Mitigant?

For cloud, Mitigant covers what BAS provides and extends it: real attack execution in the live cloud, multi-cloud coverage, exploitability validation, and continuous operation. Teams typically consolidate cloud validation onto Mitigant. https://mitigant.io/en/platform

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BAS vendors also claim CTEM. How is Mitigant's approach to CTEM different?

Many BAS tools market CTEM but cover only the validation step. Mitigant delivers the full CTEM cycle for cloud natively: cloud-native CSPM for discovery, scoping, and prioritization (https://mitigant.io/en/cloud-security-posture-management); attack emulation for validation to cut false positives; compliance alignment; and findings pushed into SIEM and SOC to mobilize fixes. https://mitigant.io/en/blog/rethinking-cloud-security-strategies-with-adversarial-exposure-validation#mitigant-supercharges-ctem-programs-with-aev

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Why choose a cloud-native platform over adapting a traditional BAS tool for the cloud?

Cloud attacks target identity, the control plane, and the data plane, layers a tool built for endpoints and networks reaches only at the surface. A cloud-native platform validates these depths directly, with 500+ cloud-native attacks across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud plus AI red teaming (https://mitigant.io/en/solutions/ai-red-teaming) and evidence for every step. Mitigant is also EU-based and built in Germany; data residency details on the Security & Trust FAQ (https://mitigant.io/en/faqs/security-trust). https://mitigant.io/en/blog/cspm-scans-are-not-cloud-penetration-tests-understanding-the-critical-difference

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