Security Control
Validation
Automatically and continuously validate the effectiveness of your prevention and detection controls.
Validate and Optimize Your Defenses to Ensure You Stay Threat Ready
Your organization’s security controls are fundamental to your defense against cyber threats. But in a rapidly evolving landscape, are you sure that they are providing the level of protection you need to safeguard your most critical assets? To minimize the risk of serious breaches and demonstrate assurance, testing the performance of your controls on a regular basis is now considered vital.
Picus Security Control Validation (SCV), powered by award-winning Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology, helps you to measure and strengthen cyber resilience by automatically and continuously testing the effectiveness of your security tools.
Why Security Control Validation?
Reasons to Choose The Picus Platform to Validate Your Existing Controls
With Picus SCV's Threat Builder, test your security controls against custom-created threats. This powerful feature enables security professionals without red teaming expertise to chain together attack actions and upload custom payloads.
To help visualize threat coverage and visibility, Picus SCV automatically maps simulation results against The MITRE ATT&CK Framework. Quickly identify gaps and prioritize the mitigation of techniques that pose the greatest risk.
Quickly gauge your organization’s threat readiness and measure performance trends over time. Picus SCV includes automated reports and custom dashboards that enable you to stay on top of your security posture and keep stakeholders across your business informed.
Compare your security scores with industry peers, regional counterparts, and other Picus users. Gain insights into the most simulated threats, threat templates, and popular ATT&CK tactics within your region, industry, and Picus community. This allows you to better understand the prevalent threats and helps you prioritize your security efforts accordingly.
USE CASES
Address Challenges with Security Validation
See and prioritize exposures across your security operations.
Breach and
Attack
Simulation
Simulate attacks to measure and optimize security controls.
Automated Penetration
Testing
Stay on top of exposures while alleviating manual testing requirements.
Adversarial Exposure
Validation
Improve decision making with a holistic view of your security posture.
Individually Licensable Attack Modules
Tests your controls against a regularly maintained attack library, comprising thousands of real-world threats and attack actions.
- Network Infiltration
Validate that malware and ransomware, downloaded via client-side attacks, is prevented and detected. - Email Attacks
Test the effectiveness of your controls to block malicious links and attachments. - Web Application Attacks
Gauge if your defenses are capable of blocking code injection, denial of service and brute force attacks. - Endpoint Attacks
Validate that scenario attacks by threat groups, including APTs, are identified by endpoint security controls. - Data Exfiltration Attacks
Assess whether your defenses can prevent the exfiltration of sensitive personal and financial information.
What Our Customer Says
Picus is very good attack simulation tool in overall. It shows all security vulnerabilities and guides..
Sr. Information Security & Risk Officer
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.
Cyber Defense Senior Specialist
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.
Security Specialist
Customer's Choice
2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Breach and Attack Simulation
Cyber Security Excellence Awards
2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards – Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company
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Validate Effectiveness Across Your Security Program
Attack Surface
Validation
Enhance visibility of internal and external cyber assets and the security risks they pose.
Cloud Security
Validation
Identify cloud misconfigurations and overly permissive identity and access management policies.
Security Control
Validation
Measure and optimize the effectiveness of security controls with consistent and accurate attack simulations.
Attack Path
Validation
Eliminate high-risk attack paths that attackers could exploit to compromise users and assets.
Detection Rule
Validation
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Frequently Asked Questions
Security control validation is a term used in cyber security to describe the testing of security controls. Security control validation enables security teams to understand whether the tools they use to prevent and detect threats are functioning as expected. With this knowledge, they can take action to address any gaps and achieve the best possible protection and value from investments.
Security control validation is essential because it helps security teams to identify policy weaknesses that could enable attacks to go unprevented and undetected. Security control validation ensures that defenses are optimized against evolving threats and that misconfigurations resulting from infrastructure drift are addressed before breaches occur.
Security control validation should be performed on a regular basis to ensure that prevention and detection gaps are identified and addressed swiftly. Automated security validation with Breach and Attack Simulation augments manual approaches such as pentesting to enable security teams to identify policy weaknesses continuously.
By continuously testing and helping to improve the effectiveness of security controls, Picus Security Control Validation Platform helps organizations to comply with a wide range of regulations and standards.
Laws such as The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) state that organizations should have a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures. ISO-27001 and the PCI DSS, as well as frameworks such as NIST 800-53, also have similar requirements.