CBTS Continuous Penetration Testing for Enterprise Security

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CBTS has introduced a new Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) offering that integrates automated testing capabilities with expert analysis to enable organizations to consistently detect exploitable risks, verify attack vectors, and prioritize remediation as their infrastructure evolves.

The Evolution of Enterprise Attack Surfaces

The expansion of cloud environments, SaaS platforms, interconnected systems, third-party integrations, and AI-driven technologies is rapidly increasing enterprise attack surfaces beyond the capacity of conventional testing schedules to monitor effectively. Industry breach statistics confirm this trend, showing that vulnerability exploitation now surpasses stolen credentials as the primary entry method for attackers, with AI accelerating the time between disclosure and exploitation from months to hours.

Continuous Security Validation

Enterprises are shifting from periodic assessments to ongoing security validation, with partners like CBTS facilitating this transition through practical implementation. By merging the autonomous testing features of NodeZero with CBTS’s security expertise, organizations can continuously assess exploitable risks, prioritize remediation based on empirical evidence, and enhance their security stance as their environments change. AI-generated findings require human verification to ensure reliability.

How CBTS PTaaS Works

CBTS developed PTaaS using NodeZero to autonomously conduct penetration tests across live production systems without disrupting operations. CBTS security specialists review test outcomes, offering tailored insights and remediation advice. This approach transforms penetration testing from an annual checkpoint into an ongoing process, providing organizations with continuous evidence of actual exploitability as new vulnerabilities, configurations, and identity exposures emerge.

\”Environments are constantly changing, so threat identification must keep pace,\” stated Ryan Hamrick, Director of the Security Practice at CBTS. \”Traditional penetration testing provides a valuable snapshot, but this snapshot becomes outdated quickly as new vulnerabilities, configurations, identities, and systems are introduced. CBTS PTaaS enables clients to continuously confirm which risks are genuinely exploitable in their specific environment, understand how attackers might combine them, and prioritize remediation with confidence.\”

Key Features of CBTS PTaaS

The service operates through NodeZero, conducting recurring penetration tests across client environments to validate risks and illustrate how individual weaknesses could form real attack chains. CBTS penetration testing and ethical hacking teams analyze each assessment to provide expert context, remediation guidance, and customized recommendations. All findings include 100% proof of exploitability.

Verified Exploitability

Verified exploitability through testing within the client’s environment, allowing security teams to focus on risks that attackers can realistically exploit.

Attack Path Analysis

Attack path analysis demonstrating how multiple weaknesses could be combined to compromise critical systems.

Expert Review

Expert review from CBTS penetration testing professionals, offering tailored context, remediation advice, and strategies to mitigate validated risks.

Customized Reporting

Customized reporting to help security teams prioritize remediation based on verified exploitability and track progress over time.

Adjustable Testing Frequency

Adjustable testing frequency enabling organizations to select daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly cycles aligned with their risk profile, business requirements, and security maturity.

Importance of Continuous Validation

As enterprises adopt Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) frameworks, security teams require methods to consistently identify, validate, and prioritize exposures that pose the greatest business risk. Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report indicates that a vulnerability’s likelihood of being exploited again decreases by approximately 50% within 30 days of its last observed exploitation, underscoring the importance of continuous validation over one-time patching.

Strengthening Security Postures

CBTS PTaaS enables organizations to implement this approach by evaluating vulnerabilities alongside configuration issues, identity exposures, and other weaknesses across systems, devices, applications, and networks. By confirming which risks are genuinely exploitable and illustrating how they could be combined into attack paths, the service provides security teams with a clearer roadmap from exposure detection to remediation, reducing noise, optimizing resource allocation, and strengthening security postures over time. This capability becomes increasingly vital as adversarial AI models amplify the volume of newly disclosed vulnerabilities.