Picus Security

What is Picus Security?

Picus Security is an automated security validation platform that tests whether attackers could exploit exposures and whether existing controls stop them. It combines breach and attack simulation, autonomous penetration testing and exposure validation.

Key features of Picus Security

• Breach and Attack Simulation: tests and improves prevention and detection controls.
• Autonomous Penetration Testing: live execution of exploit chains.
• Exposure Validation: validates attack technique chains without live exploitation.
• Picus Swarm: AI agents coordinated by Numi AI that combine all three methods.
• Exposure ingestion: normalizes and prioritizes data from other tools.
• Ticketing: creates tickets with evidence and revalidates before closing.

How Picus Security works

Picus ingests exposure data, prioritizes it using threat intelligence and business criticality, routes each item to the right validation method, and returns validated exploitability to re-rank the backlog. It retests controls continuously as the environment changes.

Who uses Picus Security?

Security teams at large enterprises use it. The vendor names Mastercard, Vodafone, ING, GSK and Equifax and cites G2 and Gartner Peer Insights recognition.

Picus Security pricing

Picus does not list pricing; it offers a free trial and a live demo.

Picus Security integrations

Picus integrates with exposure sources such as Tenable, Wiz and Snyk, ticketing in Jira and ServiceNow, and tests controls including EDR, SIEM, firewall, WAF and proxy tools.

Picus Security alternatives

Bugcrowd and HackerOne run human-led bug bounty and pentest programs, which differ from automated simulation. D3 Security and Blink Ops are security orchestration tools. LogRhythm is a SIEM, which Picus tests rather than replaces.