Penetration Testing What Is Continuous Automated Penetration and Attack Testing?
Continuous automated penetration and attack testing uses tooling to run real attack techniques against an environment on an ongoing schedule, rather than during one scheduled engagement. It trades the depth of a fully human-led test for broad, repeatable coverage that runs continuously. The category has a real ceiling: findings that depend on business logic or multi-step reasoning still need a human tester to catch. Treat it as one layer of a testing program, not a replacement for the whole thing.
