Picus Security

Security Control Validation rigorously measures and optimizes defense efficacy through continuous, automated Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS). It tests security tools against thousands of real threats, operationalizes MITRE ATT&CK for gap analysis, and provides vendor-specific mitigation guidance, ensuring 24/7 threat readiness.

Attack Surface Validation enhances security visibility by aggregating and normalizing cyber asset data to uncover hidden risks and policy gaps across complex environments. This feature prioritizes asset risk and vulnerabilities by running real-world threat simulations to determine exploitability, accelerating vulnerability patching efforts where they truly matter.

Cloud Security Validation proactively audits AWS, Azure, and GCP services to identify critical cloud misconfigurations and overly permissive identity and access management policies. It secures workloads and containers by simulating privilege escalation scenarios in a Local Policy Simulator, supporting robust multi-cloud security posture management.

It employs automated penetration testing to discover, visualize, and eliminate lateral movement paths to critical assets like Domain Admin accounts. This process validates how weaknesses chain together, highlighting critical choke points. It enables precise, risk-based remediation that significantly minimizes overall organizational dwell time.

It summarizes the platform’s core function: prioritizing validated exposures based on confirmed exploitability and control effectiveness. It delivers a unified source of truth to assess, validate, and rapidly remediate gaps, thereby replacing fragmented risk tools and offering comprehensive metrics for executives and security stakeholders.