{"id":4720,"date":"2025-06-11T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/uncategorized\/why-autonomous-pentests-do-work-and-scripted-tools-fail\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:59:42","slug":"why-autonomous-pentests-do-work-and-scripted-tools-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/blogs-en\/why-autonomous-pentests-do-work-and-scripted-tools-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why autonomous pentests do work (and scripted tools fail)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automated = stupid. Autonomous = smart. NodeZero shows the difference.  <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>You may be thinking: automation is saving money. But when it comes to pen testing, that doesn&#8217;t work. Unless you test autonomously. And that&#8217;s what NodeZero does.   <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Recognize the problem<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BAS tools run on scripts. But those: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">age rapidly<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lack context<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">require interpretation by experts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consequence? You keep thinking for yourself about meaning, significance and next steps. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The solution: NodeZero&#8217;s autonomous agent<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NodeZero analyzes your network live, makes real decisions and achieves real goals such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Becoming a Domain Admin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data exfiltration<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dumping Credentials<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exploring paths of attack<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>What you miss without autonomy<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speed in testing and repetition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current attack scenarios<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Impact-oriented insight<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>What you gain with NodeZero<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No script maintenance or manual interpretation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every pen test gets smarter thanks to anonymized data<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More pen testing than top-10 consulting firms &#8211; so more experience<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Review:<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNodeZero pen testing is like a Red Team that never sleeps.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience the difference for yourself. Schedule your autonomous pen test via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/discover-the-hack\/\">https:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/discover-the-hack\/<\/a>  <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and see what your BAS tool doesn&#8217;t see.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4794,"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/4794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netboss.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}