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Picus Security Validation Platform

byPicus Security
in Adversarial Exposure Validation
4.8
2025

Overview

Product Information on Picus Security Validation Platform

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Picus Security Validation Platform?

Picus Security Validation Platform is a software designed to assess and improve an organization’s security posture by simulating real-world cyber threats. The software evaluates the effectiveness of existing security controls, identifies vulnerabilities, and provides actionable insights to optimize detection and prevention mechanisms. By continuously testing security processes and configurations, the software helps organizations to identify gaps in defense, prioritize risk mitigation efforts, and support compliance requirements. Its key features include automated attack simulation, security control validation, detailed reporting, and integrations with various security solutions. Picus Security Validation Platform addresses the business problem of ensuring that security investments perform as expected against evolving threat landscapes, supporting organizations in maintaining an adaptive and resilient security environment.

Picus Security Validation Platform Pricing

The Picus Security Validation Platform software uses a subscription-based pricing model, typically structured around different tiers or packages based on features, capacity, or the number of assets covered. Pricing can vary depending on deployment scale and may include options for annual or multi-year commitments. Custom quotes are often provided based on organizational requirements and the scope of security validation needs.

Overall experience with Picus Security Validation Platform

SECURITY ANALYST
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Proactive, Insight Driven and Reliable Security Validation”

5.0
Nov 10, 2025
My overall experience with the Picus Security Validation Platform has been highly rewarding. It brings a proactive approach to cybersecurity by continuously testing our defenses against real-world attack scenarios. Platform not only validates the effectiveness of our controls, but also translates the findings into practical remediation steps that are easy to follow. Overall, Picus has proven to be a reliable, insightful and value driven solution for strengthening our security posture.
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CRITICAL

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2025
For Market:
Adversarial Exposure Validation

About Company

Company Description

Updated 10th November 2023

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.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2013
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
http://www.picussecurity.com

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Picus Security Validation Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

What I like most about the Picus Security Validation Platform is the way it transforms security validation from a one time exercise into a continuous and automated process. The platform not only identifies gaps but also provides clear, actionable remediation guidance, which makes it far more effective than traditional testing methods. Its intuitive dashboards and detailed reporting give us instant visibility into the effectiveness of our defenses, enabling quicker, data driven decision making. Overall, it empowers our team to proactively improve resilience and stay ahead of evolving threats.

Like

I appreciate Picus Securitys ability to continuously validate our security controls with realistic attack simulations, giving us clear, actionable insights to improve our defenses the platforms automation ease of use and integration with our existing tools make it efficient and time saving, and the detailed reports and recommendations help us quickly identify and remediate gaps, significantly enhancing our overall security posture.

Like

1 - Seamless integration with majority of security controls, easy deployment and implementation 2 - Vast threat library and regular updates of new threads 3 - Ready templates for quick simulation as per domain guidelines helps to use it frequently

Dislike

There is not much to dislike, but I had to mention one area, it would be that the platform has a bit of a learning curve for new users. More in-depth onboarding material, interactive exercises, and tutorials will make it even easier to adopt quickly. Documentation is there, what is important is the practical lessons.

Dislike

Overall Picus security performs well, but the initial learning curve can be a bit steep for new users, some features could be made more intuitive and quicker updates to the latest attack scenarios would make it even stronger.

Dislike

While the detailed technical reports are comprehensive and informative, there is room for improvement in terms of clarity and accessibility: Simplifying the language, incorporating visual summaries, and highlighting key findings up front could significantly improve the user experience and help customers gain value from the reports more efficiently

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Peer Discussions

Picus Security Validation Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.8

(224 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
81%
4 Star
19%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.7

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.8

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4.8

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  • SECURITY ANALYST
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Proactive, Insight Driven and Reliable Security Validation

    5.0
    Nov 10, 2025
    My overall experience with the Picus Security Validation Platform has been highly rewarding. It brings a proactive approach to cybersecurity by continuously testing our defenses against real-world attack scenarios. Platform not only validates the effectiveness of our controls, but also translates the findings into practical remediation steps that are easy to follow. Overall, Picus has proven to be a reliable, insightful and value driven solution for strengthening our security posture.
  • Network Security Engineer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Continuous Security Validation and Automation Enhance Defense Capabilities and Efficiency

    5.0
    Aug 18, 2025
    Our experience with Picus Security has been highly positive, the platform offers a comprehensive and continuous security validation process that helps us assess the effectiveness of our existing security controls in real-time, the interface is intuitive and the automation capabilities save significant time for our team, its detailed reporting and actionable recommendations have helped us proactively close security gaps before they can be exploited, the product integrates with our existing SIEM and security tools was seamless and the support team has been consistently responsive and knowlwdgeable overall picus security has strengthened our security posture and provided measurable improvements in our defense capabilities.
  • Sales Manager
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    PICUS BAS: Translate security gap into Measurable Improvements

    5.0
    Aug 11, 2025
    Working with PICUS has been a rewarding experience. The support team’s responsiveness and technical guidance enabled me to better understand and resolve customer challenges, while the sales team provided exceptional product insights and strategic support. This combination has helped me confidently position Pick a solution and deliver value to our clients. The collaboration and expertise across teams truly sets PICUS apart.
  • IT Security & Risk Management Associate
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Strengthening Cyber Resilience with Picus Security

    5.0
    Dec 8, 2025
    My experience with Picus Security Validation Platform has been very positive. The platform makes it easy to simulate real-world cyberattacks and test how well our defenses respond. Instead of spending hours setting up manual tests, I can quickly run automated scenarios and get clear insights into where our security controls are strong and where improvements are needed.
  • Security Incident Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Solid Platform for Security Control Validation With Room to Grow on Reporting and UX

    4.0
    Jul 31, 2025
    We have been using Picus Security Validation Platform for over 3 years now and overall, the experience has been quite positive. From the initial deployment to day-to-day operations, it's been pretty smooth. One of the standout benefits is the ability to countinuously validate the effectiveness of our existing security controls -- something we couldn't do reliably before. What worked well for us was how quickly we were able to operationalize platform. The integrations with our existing SIEM and EDR tools were more straightforward than expected. We got actionable insights almost immediately. That said, repoting granularity could be better -- especially for executive-level stakeholders. Also, the learning curve for configuring custom attack scenarios was a bit steep at first, but their support team helped bridge that gap fairly quickly.
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