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Picus SecurityFind out whether your security controls actually stop real attacks
Picus safely simulates real attacker techniques against your firewalls, endpoint, email, web and detection controls, shows what was prevented, detected or missed, and gives vendor-specific fixes.
- BAS
- Breach and attack simulation mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Vendor-specific fixes
- Prevention signatures and detection rules for failed tests
- SaaS or on-premises
- Air-gapped networks supported for specific use cases
- Detection rules
- Checks whether SIEM rules have the logs and alerts they need
Problems Picus is used to solve
Buying security controls is not the same as knowing they work. These are the questions Picus helps answer.
| Topic | What it can lead to | How Picus Security helps |
|---|---|---|
| Controls assumed to work but never tested | What it can lead to: A firewall, EDR or email gateway lets an attack through because of a missed setting or outdated policy. | How Picus Security helps: Simulated attacks score each technique as prevented, detected, logged or missed, for each control. |
| SIEM rules that silently stopped working | What it can lead to: An attack happens and no alert fires, because a log source broke or a rule is skipped. | How Picus Security helps: Detection Rule Validation checks whether log sources feed each rule, whether it runs and alerts, and how efficiently. |
| Long vulnerability backlogs | What it can lead to: Teams patch in the order a scanner lists rather than by real risk. | How Picus Security helps: Exposure Validation tests whether exposures are actually exploitable given your existing controls, and re-ranks the backlog. |
| New threats in the news | What it can lead to: Management asks "are we protected?" and nobody can answer with evidence. | How Picus Security helps: New threats are added to the Picus Threat Library and can be simulated against your controls. |
| Gaps found but not fixed | What it can lead to: The same weakness appears in report after report. | How Picus Security helps: Each failed test comes with a mitigation to apply, and the same simulation can be re-run to confirm the gap is closed. |
What Picus Security does
Picus describes its platform as exposure validation. These are its main products and use cases.
Breach and Attack Simulation
Runs attack techniques against network (NGFW and IPS), web (WAF), email, and endpoint (EDR, XDR and antivirus) controls, and maps results to MITRE ATT&CK.
Detection Rule Validation
Connects read-only to SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel and IBM QRadar, and scores each rule by log source, alerting and performance.
Exposure Validation
Takes findings from tools such as vulnerability scanners and cloud security platforms and tests whether each exposure is exploitable in your environment.
Autonomous Penetration Testing
Runs real exploit chains against reachable assets to show how an attacker could move through the environment.
Mitigation Library
Vendor-specific prevention signatures and detection rules for failed tests, ready to apply and re-validate.
Threat Library
Attack techniques and threat scenarios maintained by Picus Labs, including a builder that turns threat reports into simulations.
Picus compared with periodic penetration testing
Both are useful and they answer different questions. Many organisations use both.
| Topic | Periodic penetration test | Picus Security Validation Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Main question | Periodic penetration test: Can a skilled tester get in, and how far? | Picus Security Validation Platform: Does each control prevent or detect specific attack techniques? |
| Frequency | Periodic penetration test: At a point in time, often yearly or after major changes | Picus Security Validation Platform: On demand or on a schedule |
| What you receive | Periodic penetration test: A findings report from that engagement | Picus Security Validation Platform: Results per attack and per control, with mitigations and a trend over time |
| Re-testing a fix | Periodic penetration test: Usually a separate retest | Picus Security Validation Platform: Re-run the same simulation |
Picus also offers autonomous penetration testing. Regulators or contracts may still require a penetration test by an independent tester.
Before you start breach and attack simulation
How to prepare for a security validation programme, with Picus or any similar tool. Tick what is in place: nothing you select is saved or sent.
How VirtuThinko helps you adopt Picus Security
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Requirements
We can help you write down what you need Picus to do, including which controls to validate and which threats matter most to you.
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Demo or proof of concept
We can arrange a demonstration and, where it makes sense, a limited trial against agreed success criteria.
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Design and deployment
We can help plan the architecture, integrations and rollout, including change windows and a rollback plan.
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Tuning and handover
We can help tune policies after go-live and hand over documentation and knowledge to your team.
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Ongoing support
Where you want it, we can help with day-to-day administration, upgrades and periodic reviews.
Breach and attack simulation (BAS) safely reproduces the techniques attackers use, such as malware delivery or data exfiltration, to check whether your security controls prevent or detect them. Unlike a one-off test, it can be repeated whenever controls or threats change.
Picus states that its BAS is designed to validate security controls safely in production without disrupting users, systems or business operations. You should still agree scope and approvals with system owners before testing.
Picus states that its platform is delivered as SaaS in multiple regions, can be deployed on-premises for organisations with strict regulatory requirements, and supports fully air-gapped networks for specific use cases.
Picus lists network controls such as NGFW and IPS, web application firewalls, email gateways, endpoint controls such as EDR, XDR and antivirus, SIEM detection rules, and cloud controls.
Picus provides a mitigation for the failed test, such as a vendor-specific prevention signature or detection rule. After applying it, you can re-run the same simulation to confirm the gap is closed.
Not necessarily. Picus validates controls continuously and also offers autonomous penetration testing, but some regulations and contracts require a test by an independent tester.
Explore Picus Security for your organisation
Tell us which controls you have and what you most want to prove. A member of our team will contact you to arrange an initial conversation.