Discover
Gain greater visibility of the attack surface and learn and understand how attackers could attack your critical assets.
Validate
Continuously measure the effectiveness of your security controls and processes to assess your threat readiness at any time.
Prioritize
Get the data you need to prioritise actions to address and mitigate weaknesses in areas with the greatest security impact.
Optimize
Use actionable insights to quickly address weaknesses and maximise the value of your security investments to date.
Picus Security Control Validation, based on award-winning Breach and Attack Simulation technology, helps you measure and strengthen your cyber resilience by automatically and continuously testing the effectiveness of your security tools. Instead of relying on the outdated results of at most a once-a-year penetration test and red teaming, make sure your cyber defences are aligned on a daily basis with the scale of your ICT assets, the actual attack surface, changes in business and product technologies, and the latest cyber threats.
After gaining initial access to your network, skilled cyber attackers can easily achieve their goals by exploiting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that are undiscovered to you. Picus Attack Path Validation allows you to automatically detect and visualise the steps an evasive attacker could take to compromise critical systems and user accounts. By simulating real adversary actions, this powerful tool identifies the attack paths that pose the greatest risk and provides insights to remediate them.
In recent years, the volume of alerts and logs that security teams have to deal with has increased exponentially. Organisations are collecting more data than ever in their SIEM systems, and new and more sophisticated threats are constantly emerging. In this cycle, developing new rules for detection becomes increasingly difficult. Picus Detection Rule Validation allows you to take control of your detection rule base, automate the previously manual process of creating detection rules and ensure they are continuously and proactively validated.
Get a clear picture of your organisation's security posture with the Picus Complete Security Validation Platform. It enables you to assess and measure the effectiveness of security controls to prevent, detect and respond to attacks across the entire cyber predation chain. In addition, it includes a rich threat library of more than 10,000 attacks and attack scenarios. This library is updated daily by Picus, ensuring that your automated cyber protection testing checks your defences against even the latest threats.
In contrast to manual security assessments, Picus provides continuous security insights. Easily check the effectiveness of your security tools at any time through quickly accessible reports and dashboards, and analyse the results in conjunction with data from MITRE ATT&CK, the global knowledge base on attackers' behaviour. The overall benefits of the Picus platform include increased awareness of the current cyber security situation and a better understanding of cyber risks.
The Picus platform allows you to test and measure the ability of your security controls to defend against the latest threats at any time, for example when installing new network assets, introducing new software or using additional cloud services. Importantly, it also provides useful content with remediation actions for each security solution and insights to improve their effectiveness. This helps you to quickly close gaps and improve security outcomes.
The Picus platform continuously assesses the prevention capabilities implemented by network security controls such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Next-generation Firewalls (NGFW) and Web Application Firewalls (WAF). It also evaluates the effectiveness of Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions by examining logs and generating alerts, as well as benchmarking threat coverage and visibility.
Continuous insight into the effectiveness of security tools to prevent, detect and respond to the latest threats gives you a holistic view of your security solutions portfolio. This includes metrics for the individual technologies used as well as an overall security score.
At the same time, when the platform identifies weaknesses or gaps, it helps to assess their impact and optimise existing toolkits to address them. To enable rapid improvements, the platform provides easy-to-use content to address gaps, including vendor-specific prevention signatures for network controls and detection rules for SIEM and EDR solutions. Where weaknesses cannot be easily addressed by existing controls, the platform provides valuable information to guide and justify future investments in strengthening cyber security.
One of Picus' most important commitments is to reduce the pressure on Security Operations Centre teams. It automatically and continuously discovers potential for security improvements. It enables offensive (red) and defensive (blue) security teams to work together more effectively to close gaps in threat coverage and visibility.
It uses attack simulation to identify weaknesses and misconfigurations in Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) tools and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools. This even includes monitoring for errors in alert generation and inputting the right logs and telemetry for further analysis. By automating otherwise manual and time-consuming testing processes, and with a continuous flow of attacking security information, it ensures that Red and Blue teams can spend more time on Purple collaboration. This includes hunting emerging threats, reducing false positives and optimising processes.
Picus' comprehensive platform helps organisations to comply with a wide range of regulations and standards. By simulating attacks across the entire cyber predation chain, your security and risk managers can more easily determine whether critical assets are protected and whether threats could lead to intrusions and the loss or encryption of sensitive personal and financial data.
Easily accessible reports and dashboards help security teams measure risk, make tactical and strategic decisions, and demonstrate compliance to business leaders and auditors.
More information: https://www.picussecurity.com/
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