Attack Path Validation
Discover and prioritize high-risk exposures with automated penetration testing and attack path mapping.
Visualize and Remediate Exploitable High-risk Attack Paths in Your Environment
Picus Attack Path Validation (APV) discovers and visualizes exposures and the steps an evasive attacker could take to compromise servers, workstations, users and more.
In order to save time and focus on what really matters, your team can determine which vulnerabilities found through automated penetration testing capabilities are the most likely to be used by an adversary, and clearly see the attack path as a guide for mitigation.
Together, attack path mapping and automated penetration testing empower Blue Teams to easily see what is exploitable and prioritize critical fixes to be addressed urgently. Powered by the Picus Intelligent Adversary Decision Engine, users can target exploitable attack paths and gain actionable insights to remediate them quickly.
Automated Penetration Testing
Run accurate and stable testing across environments including servers, workstations, users and data to broadly identify exposures and unpatchable vulnerabilities commonly missed by scanners, like misconfigurations.
Attack Path Mapping
Discover and visualize high-risk attack paths to understand how attackers could achieve their ultimate objective. Simulate ransomware or identify lateral movement leading to domain admin privileges to stop adversaries.
Why Attack Path Validation?
Reasons to Choose the Picus Platform for Attack Path Validation
To verify attack paths pose an actual rather than a theoretical risk, Picus APV validates them by simulating adversarial actions such as credential harvesting, kerberoasting, and lateral movement.
Picus Attack Path Validation (APV) is powered by an intelligent decision engine that replicates the approach of real attackers. It determines how the assessment objective can be achieved in the most efficient and evasive way possible.
So you can harden your network security and eliminate attack paths, APV supplies helpful insights to mitigate the impact of any actions it is able to perform during an assessment.
Tailor simulations to your requirements by defining a scope and by selecting the type of harvesting and access actions that can be leveraged by the product's decision engine to achieve an objective.
With no agents to install and configure in your environment, it’s easy to get started with Picus Attack Path Validation. After scoping an assessment, all you need to do is execute a binary on an initial access point.
Harden Active Directory
Continuous assessment of Active Directory security is vital since an attacker that has gained domain admin privileges can access all of an organization’s systems, users and data.
By identifying and helping to eliminate the shortest attack paths to an Active Directory, Picus Attack Path Validation strengthens network security and helps to mitigate the risk of breaches becoming major business-impacting incidents.
Simulate Ransomware Indicators
Replicate the impact of potential ransomware attacks by simulating the encryption and exfiltration of sensitive files.
Determine common or custom file types to include in your simulation and test the risk post by unauthorized access. Quickly take next steps with key findings, simulation summaries and recommendations.
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Address Challenges with Security Validation
See and prioritize exposures across your security operations.
Automated Penetration
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Stay on top of exposures while alleviating manual testing requirements.
Adversarial Exposure
Validation
Improve decision making with a holistic view of your security posture.
Breach and
Attack
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Simulate attacks to measure and optimize security controls.
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Picus is very good attack simulation tool in overall. It shows all security vulnerabilities and guides..
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The implementation was very fast, the platform is easy to integrate and results quite intuitive to be analyzed.
CIO
It is easy to use and implement the product. It is a really useful tool to find out your security tool vulnerabilities..
Cyber Security Manage
A very successful platform where we can test the accuracy of our security investments and see their scores.
Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
Picus is one of the best BAS solution on the market today. The threat database it is constantly updated..
ICT Security Engineer
Picus completes the task it is required to do near perfect as a BAS solution. Threat database is up to date & updated frequently after a new malware or campaign, also the database is large..
Consultant Security Engineer
There is a very nice team from which I can get quick support. The application provides us with great convenience and confidence in our work.
Information Security Specialist
To test our systems with the real-time attack product is helping us to improve our security maturity. At the same time, the real time attacks are updating with the zero-day vulnerabilities..
Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer
With the help of this product we can perform continuosly endpoint attack via latest tactics and techniques which are used by threat actors..
Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
.. It is possible to customise the campaign or schedule the assessment periodically, to test protection measure implemented on network, endpoint and email.
ICT Security Engineer
Picus is such a great product for organizations that are looking to have constant checks and validation on their security posture in the organization.
Cybersecuirty Pre-sales Engineer.
Picus is a real safety measurement tool. Ever since we took Picus into our inventory, Security has helped significantly to increase our maturity level.
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It strengthened our security perspective and allowed us to follow trend attacks. We can test zeroday malicious threats very early because Picus could add them their attack database quickly.
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Frequently Asked Questions
An attack path is a route an attacker, that breached a network, could take to achieve an objective. Due to the size of IT environments and the rate at which they grow, most organizations have thousands of potential attack paths. Left undiscovered and unmanaged, high-risk attack paths could enable attackers to compromise critical users and assets quickly and easily.
Attack Path Management is a term used in cyber security to describe the discovery, visualization and elimination of attack paths. By remediating vulnerabilities and addressing misconfigurations inside a network, security teams are able to reduce the number of available paths to critical assets as well as increase the effort required by attackers to reach them.
By automatically discovering and visualizing attack paths inside a network, attack path mapping tools help security teams to understand how attackers could compromise critical users and assets. In doing so, attack path mapping tools reveal vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and provide insights to remediate them.
Examples of common exposures that attackers can exploit once inside a network include excessive user privileges, inadequate network partitioning and unpatched vulnerabilities in systems.
Yes. In order to aid the successful completion of an objective, Picus APV can simulate lateral movement actions. Lateral movement actions that can be simulated include pass-the-hash and pass-the-ticket.
Like red teaming exercises, Picus Attack Path Validation is designed to achieve a certain objective. However, whereas manual red team assessments can take months to perform and deliver results, Picus APV can provide insights in minutes.
By automating attack path mapping, Picus APV enables security teams to run simulations from multiple initial access points quickly and easily. The result is a more holistic view and greater insights to help prioritize the remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.