Find, Fix, and Stay Ready

Breach and Attack Simulation

Continuously validate your live defenses against real attacks:

  • See what your EDR, SIEM, NGFW, WAF, email gateway and other controls block, detect, log, and miss.

  • Close real gaps with ready-to-deploy, vendor-specific fixes, then re-test to confirm.

  • Stay ready as threats, controls, and configurations change.

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Why Now

Frontier AI has collapsed the time between disclosure and attack.

Adversaries now weaponize new CVEs in hours, probe your environment at machine speed, faster than teams can manually tune controls, update detections, or validate coverage.

In the post-Mythos era, readiness has to be proven continuously against the threats, techniques, and configurations changing around you.

~10 hrs time-to-exploit for a new CVE, down from weeks
~135/day new CVEs, up roughly 40% year over year
<30 min adversary breakout time
WHY BREACH AND ATTACK Sımulatıon

You deployed the controls. This is how you know they work.

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Know what your controls stop
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Fix validated security gaps faster
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Prove value with evidence
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Stay ready for emerging threats
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Improve prevention and detection
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HOW IT WORKS

Prove Your Controls Work Before Attackers Test Them

Security controls drift. Detection rules age. Exceptions accumulate. New attacker techniques appear faster than most teams can test.

Picus closes that gap by continuously validating real adversary techniques against your live controls, including EDR, SIEM, firewall, and email security. When a control fails, Picus provides a vendor-specific fix and lets you re-run the same simulation to prove the gap is closed.

Powered by Picus pioneered BAS and has spent 13 years advancing the category.
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control effectiveness within 3 months

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reduction in MTTR for emerging threats

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to create and simulate new attacks with AI

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integrations across your security stack

CAPABILITIES

Why teams choose Picus to prove their controls work

The threats moved to machine speed. Validation has to match them, with the judgment, traceability, and control that enterprise security demands.



Built for the AI era

Ai threat builder

From threat report to runnable simulation in minutes.

Picus AI Threat Builder turns unstructured intelligence, a blog URL, a PDF, a CVE ID, or a threat-actor name, into a fully playable, ATT&CK-mapped simulation. About 9 minutes on average, so validation keeps pace with the speed of disclosure .

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input: CVE-2026-33032 advisory (PDF)
1 · Initial access: exposed endpoint Mapped
2 · Execution: crafted request Mapped
3 · Impact: server takeover Mapped
runnable in ~9 min · ATT&CK-mapped
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Picus Swarm

An autonomous loop that never clocks out.

Picus Swarm is a swarm of AI agents synthesizes signals, crafts adversary-informed simulations, validates your defenses, and mobilizes the fix in one unbroken loop. It is autonomy with a chain of custody: every action traceable, every agent bound to your rules, tunable from fully supervised to fully autonomous.

VERIFIED FRONTIER ACCESS

Frontier AI on the defender's side, not just the attacker's.

Picus is verified under Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program, the pathway that extends frontier-class cyber capability to defenders. That verified access is what powers Picus AI capabilities.

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PROVEN VALIDATION CAPABILITIES

Real-world threat library

Test against 30,000+ TTPs and thousands of threat scenarios, from ransomware to APTs, maintained by Picus Labs under a 24-hour SLA for critical threats.

Vendor-specific mitigation

Every gap ships with ready-to-deploy prevention signatures and detection rules for the tools you run, then re-runs the same attack to confirm closure.

MITRE ATT&CK mapping

Results map automatically to the ATT&CK matrix, so you can see coverage and gaps at a glance and prioritize the techniques that pose the greatest risk.

Executive reports

Automated reports and custom dashboards track readiness and performance trends over time, keeping stakeholders across the business informed.

Peer benchmarking

Compare your scores against industry peers, regional counterparts, and the Picus community to see where you stand and prioritize accordingly.

Customizable threats

With the Picus Threat Builder, chain attack actions and upload custom payloads to test bespoke scenarios, no red-teaming expertise required.

30,000+

TTPs and threat scenarios in the Picus Threat Library

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Integrations across EDR, SIEM, NGFW, WAF, and email

24hr

SLA for adding simulations for critical new threats

~9min

Average to turn threat intel into a runnable simulation

The threat and mitigation & detection content behind every simulation.

Two continuously maintained libraries do the heavy lifting: one to attack with, one to defend with.

Picus Threat
Library

Simulate real-world cyberattacks to validate your controls, with 30,000+ TTPs and thousands of threat scenarios maintained by Picus Labs and the Picus Red Team under a 24-hour SLA for critical threats.

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Picus Mitigation Library

Get actionable mitigations for emerging threats, including vendor-specific prevention signatures and detection rules ready to deploy, then re-validate to confirm closure.

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Attack Coverage

Know what your defenses catch, across every attack surface.

Picus tests your controls against a regularly maintained library of thousands of real-world threats and attack actions, across every layer of your stack.

Web Application Attacks: WAF

See what your WAF stops, and what it can't, against the techniques attackers aim at your apps.

COVERAGE INCLUDES
OWASP TOP 10, SQL injection, XSS, XXE, command injection and RCE, SSRF, path traversal, authentication bypass, webshells, and WAF bypass techniques.

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Network Attacks: NGFW & IPS

See what your network security controls catch, and what moves through undetected.

COVERAGE INCLUDES
APT-group network traffic, ransomware delivery, malware loaders and droppers, infostealers, remote access tools, and vulnerability exploitation traffic.

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Endpoint Attacks: EDR, XDR and AV

See what your endpoint controls catch across a full attack, and what they can't, not just isolated samples.

COVERAGE INCLUDES
APT, ransomware, malware campaigns, full kill-chain scenarios, MITRE ATT&CK techniques, fileless and in-memory execution, and living-off-the-land techniques.

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Data Exfiltration Attacks: DLP

See what your DLP stops, and what sensitive data can still leave undetected.

COVERAGE INCLUDES
Exfiltration of PII, PCI, and PHI, source code and secrets, intellectual property, and country-specific regulated data, across different file formats and channels.

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Email Attacks: Email Gateway

See what your email gateway blocks, and what reaches the inbox.

COVERAGE INCLUDES
Phishing links, malicious attachments and weaponized documents, malicious macros, executable malicious code, malware droppers and loaders.

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Malicious Traffic: URL Filtering

See what your web gateway blocks, and what outbound traffic still gets through.

COVERAGE INCLUDES
Outbound requests to malicious domains and URLS, malware and ransomware download sites, phishing pages, and malicious command-and-control sites.

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INTEGRATIONS

Unlock Your Security Stack’s Full Power

Picus integrates with the controls you already run, so simulation results turn directly into tuning and remediation.

  • Identify what your NGFWs, WAFs, EDRs, SIEMs, and other security controls are missing.

  • Fine-tune controls using vendor-specific and agnostic mitigation guidance and detection rules.

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THE PICUS PLATFORM

One platform validates your whole security program.

Breach and Attack Simulation is one part of the Picus Platform. Together, these capabilities converge into one continuous validation loop, from attack surface to controls to exploitable exposures.

Breach and Attack Simulation
Continuously tests what your EDR, SIEM, firewall, WAF, and other security controls actually block and detect against the newest attacker techniques, then ships the fixes and re-validates that the gap closed.
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Autonomous Pentesting
Executes real exploit chains in your environment, showing what an attacker can actually reach and do, not what a CVSS or EPSS score predicts. Live validation, run safely in production.
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Exposure Validation
Proves exploitability without firing an exploit, covering the restricted assets no live test can touch and the CVEs with no public or safe exploit, for a defensible verdict on day one of disclosure.
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RESOURCES

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Frequently Asked Questions about Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) is a technology that safely and continuously emulates real adversary techniques against your security controls to measure how they perform. It enables security teams to understand whether the tools they use to prevent and detect threats are functioning as expected, so they can address any gaps and achieve the best possible protection and value from their investments. Picus pioneered BAS and has spent 10+ years advancing it.

BAS is essential because it helps security teams identify policy weaknesses that could let attacks go unprevented and undetected. It ensures defenses are optimized against evolving threats and that misconfigurations resulting from infrastructure drift are addressed before breaches occur.

BAS should be performed on a regular basis to ensure prevention and detection gaps are identified and addressed swiftly. Automated security validation with BAS augments manual approaches such as pentesting, enabling security teams to identify policy weaknesses continuously rather than at a single point in time.

Yes. Picus BAS is designed to validate security controls safely in production without disrupting users, systems, or business operations. You gain evidence of real defensive effectiveness from live environments while maintaining operational stability.

By continuously testing and helping improve the effectiveness of security controls, Picus BAS helps organizations comply with a wide range of regulations and standards. Laws such as GDPR state that organizations should have a process for regularly testing, assessing, and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures. ISO 27001 and PCI DSS, as well as frameworks such as NIST 800-53, have similar requirements.