Picus Security – The complete security control validation platform simulating real-world cyber threats

Over the years, there’s been continued evolution in security tools, the assets that need to be protected, and the threats that teams need to guard against. The number and type of security tools has continued to expand, but at a high level this diverse range of tools can be split into two categories: mechanisms that are intended to prevent attacks and those that are intended to detect and respond to attacks. Over time, the gap between these two approaches has only grown more pronounced. Fundamentally, that’s because teams have lacked a way to centrally and uniformly assess the performance of the controls in place. Further, while the focus for many organizations has been on prevention and detection tools, the reality is that threats and attacks continue to be missed, often to disastrous consequences. For these reasons, security control validation has emerged as an urgent requirement. It is through security control validation that teams can begin to intelligently assess the controls in place, and mitigate the gaps left by threat prevention mechanisms.

Picus Security is the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS). The Picus Complete Security Control Validation Platform is trusted by leading organizations worldwide to continuously validate the effectiveness of security controls against cyber-attacks and supply actionable mitigation insights to optimize them. Picus has offices in North America, Europe and APAC and is supported by a global network of channel and alliance partners. The company is dedicated to helping security professionals become more threat-centric and via its Purple Academy offers free online training to share the latest offensive and defensive cybersecurity strategies. Picus Security provides granular and actionable insights for operational and executive teams, helps built proactive capabilities, maximizes technology utilization, and thus optimizes return on investment and keeps the risk of getting breached consistently low.

Leveraging State-of-the-Art Security Control Validation Solutions

Network security technologies: Picus couples its vendor-agnostic assessments with vendor-specific prevention content for the most widely used Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), and Web Application Firewall (WAF) technologies. This end-to-end approach lowers time to respond by enhancing visibility and providing prevention content. Picus pinpoints attacks that are missed by your prevention and detection controls, enabling you to indentify threats which could pose a serious risk if mitigating action is not taken. So you can respond to threats earlier in the kill chain, Picus validates that the rulesets you use to optimize your controls are effective and generate prompt alerts.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): Picus Security Control Validation Platform with the extensive library of threats can easily integrate to your infrastructure and help you automatically identify logging gaps and areas of improvement. Picus improves log coverage and detection rules based on actual defensive capabilities and enhances SIEM efficacy proactively. Integrations with major platforms contain extensive vendor-specific and sigma-based detection content. Adapting the detection rule base on the changing adversarial context is a difficult task. This difficulty results in detection gaps, false positives, alert noise, and alert fatigue.  Challenging SIEM detection rules with an extensive attack simulation and using an automated platform addresses some key challenges. The Picus platform offers security insights that combine detection gaps and detection content, empowers red and blue team practices, and makes purple teaming an integrated capability whereby cyber defense teams can improve security posture.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR): Detecting and responding to attacks early in the cyver kill chain also relies on rich telemetry form endpoints. To facilitate the detection of threats that target your organization's devices, the Picus Platform integrates with leading EDR solutions. When weaknesses or gaps are identified, the platform helps to gauge their impact and optimize existing toolsets to address them. To facilitate swift improvements, the platform supplies easy-to-apply mitigation content, including vendor-specific prevention signatures for network controls and detection rules for SIEM and EDR solutions. It also evaluates the performance of Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) by validating log and alert generation as well as benchmarking threat coverage and visibility.

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR): Picus integrates with SOAR technologies to enable organizations by testing the effectiveness of their network security, SIEM, and EDR tools against real-world threats and leverage SOARs to automatically apply mitigation content supplied by Picus. Simulating over 10,000 attacks and attack scenarios, the Picus platform identifies weaknesses and misconfigurations in Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) tools. This includes a failure to generate alerts and ingest the right logs and telemetry for analysis. By automating otherwise manual and time-consuming testing processes and supplying a continuous stream of offensive security intelligence, Picus ensures that red and blue teams can devote greater time to purple teaming. This includes hunting for emerging threats, reducing false positives and optimizing processes.

The Leader Upfront

1. Alper Memis is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Picus Security. He is a cybersecurity veteran with academic backgrounds and extensive hands-on experience. He and his team at Picus Security are transformative security validation solution for end-to-end attack readiness visibility and effortless mitigation to pre-empt cyber-attacks across all cyber defense layers.

"Picus provides actionable insights for operational and executive teams, and thus optimizes return on investment and keeps the risk of getting breached consistently low."