Choose the evidence your assessment needs.
AutoAttack chains real attacks toward the goal you set. Read the published comparisons with Pentest Copilot, NodeZero and Nessus, alongside the role of a human engagement.
Compare the work you need done
If your objective is access to a customer database, the agent pursues that access. It uses recovered credentials and new footholds to choose its next attacks. The report shows the gains that advance your goal and the steps that enabled them.
Pentest Copilot Enterprise's GOAD campaign is documented in BugBase's writeup. For NodeZero, read Horizon3's GOAD account. Our Nessus comparison records the scan settings; Tenable's documentation explains the available templates. These sources describe the work performed under their stated conditions.
| Assessment | AutoAttack | Pentest Copilot GOAD test | NodeZero GOAD test | Nessus scan | Human engagement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting input | Objective and scope | Internal subnet | IP range, no credentials | Targets and scan settings | Agreed scope |
| Work shown | Pursues the assigned goal | Chains multiple attack paths | Automated exploitation | Vulnerability scanning | Investigation by a tester |
| Result to read | Campaign narrative and evidence | Domain access and alternative routes | Published attack paths | Scanner findings | Contracted report |
| Source for this comparison | Our runs | BugBase's Enterprise writeup | Horizon3's writeup | Our GOAD scan | The provider's proposal |
Plan the wider engagement
Use the campaign's technical results to plan remediation with the people who operate the systems. An agreed human engagement can complement that work with social engineering, physical access or a signed assessor's attestation.
Deploy AutoAttack's autonomous red team agent whenever you need to pursue a technical attack objective. Each campaign starts fresh and reports its own result.
Published product comparisons
- vs Pentest Copilot
- BugBase's GOAD publication reports domain control through several attack paths. Our comparison follows those routes alongside AutoAttack's published chain to its Domain Admin objective. The campaigns used different conditions, and BugBase provides no elapsed time for a speed ranking. Read the goals and attack paths →
- vs NodeZero
- GOAD: two forests, three domains, five Windows hosts. Our hardened lab had Defender on, LLMNR off and March 2026 patches. Across ten fresh rollbacks without starting credentials, AutoAttack reached all three Domain Admins in a 51-second median. Horizon3's separate August 2025 test reached the final domain at 13m 45s. Infrastructure and patch dates differed. Read the results and method →
- vs Nessus
- Vanilla GOAD: two forests, three domains, five Windows hosts; one run per tool, same snapshot and network position, no starting credentials. The Nessus scan reached 0 of 3 domains. AutoAttack reached all 3 by 0:45. This compares a vulnerability scan with an attack campaign. See the settings and outputs →
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