One of the ten busiest airports in Europe runs its security program with a simple principle: prove it, then improve it. The ISG - Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport cybersecurity team already operated a mature program protecting critical infrastructure. With Picus and a CTEM approach, they took it one step further, consolidating data from multiple security tools on a single platform and focusing on the gaps requiring urgent assessment instead of chasing thousands of findings by severity score. For Melike Ateş, Cybersecurity Specialist at ISG, the biggest change showed up in the team itself: watching the security score climb after every remediation turned progress into something everyone could see and feel. Read how Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport strengthens critical infrastructure security: https://hubs.li/Q04vvgs80 #CaseStudy #CTEM #CriticalInfrastructure #ExposureValidation
Picus Security
Computer and Network Security
San Francisco, California 56,315 followers
The Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform
About us
Finding exposures was never the hard part. Proving which ones an attacker could actually exploit is. Picus Security helps enterprise security teams reduce cyber risk with the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform. Instead of ranking vulnerabilities by severity score, Picus proves what attackers can exploit in your environment and what your security controls stop, so every exposure becomes a defensible decision: patch, mitigate, monitor, or accept. Adversaries now weaponize new CVEs in hours, and manual validation cannot keep pace. Picus closes that gap by validating attack surfaces, exposures, and security controls as one continuous loop: validate, decide, fix, re-validate. Attack surfaces: which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable, and what an attacker could reach by chaining them. Exposures: whether a CVE is exploitable in your environment, including on business-critical, restricted, or air-gapped systems a live exploit cannot safely touch. Security controls: what your EDR, SIEM, and firewall block, detect, and miss against current attacker techniques. The platform brings together Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus Autonomous Penetration Testing, and Exposure Validation, with techniques mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Picus Swarm, a team of AI agents, runs the whole loop autonomously and at machine speed, keeping every finding current as controls and assets change. Security teams use Picus to prioritize remediation by real exploitation risk, prove their controls work, get more from the tools they already own, and report measurable risk reduction to leadership. Picus pioneered Breach and Attack Simulation in 2013 and is a Leader on G2 and Gartner Peer Insights, Frost & Sullivan's Company of the Year for Automated Security Validation, and holds a 95% recommendation rate, trusted by Fortune 1000 security teams across financial services, healthcare, energy, and technology. Learn more at picussecurity.com.
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http://www.picussecurity.com
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- Computer and Network Security
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- 201-500 employees
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- San Francisco, California
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- Privately Held
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- 2013
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- Network Security Device Testing, Automated security testing, Automated Control Assessment, Control Effectiveness testing, Breach and Attack Simulation, Threat Exposure Management, Automated Pen Testing, Mitre Att&ck, Security Validation, Exposure Validation, and Adversarial Exposure Validation
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160 Spear St
San Francisco, California 94105, US
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Work.Life Soho, 9 Noel Street,
London, W1F 8GQ, GB
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Hacettepe Teknokent, AR-GE 1, No:12
Ankara, Turkey 06800, TR
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Picus joined CrowdStrike's Project QuiltWorks. Attackers weaponize a new CVE in roughly 8 hours. In 2025, that window was 21.5 days. The coalition exists to build proactive resilience against AI-powered attacks, and Picus brings the piece discovery alone cannot deliver. Unified, machine-speed validation across every asset, every exposure, and every control. In practice, new CrowdStrike CTI automatically converts into environment-specific attack scenarios and gets validated against production controls. Where detection can be stronger, Picus deploys the Indicator of Attack rule directly into Falcon, and validation data flows into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM so prioritization reflects real risk, not theoretical severity. Vulnerability discovery shows defenders where to look. Validation proves where to act. Read how Picus makes the coalition's vision operational: https://lnkd.in/eiWm36pi #CrowdStrike #ProjectQuiltWorks #ExposureValidation #MythosReady
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Entering the Saudi financial sector starts with proving your controls work, not just documenting them. The SAMA Cyber Resilience Fundamental Requirements (CRFR) are the licensing gate for entities joining the Kingdom's financial sector. The framework asks for controls that are implemented, monitored, and demonstrably working. SAMA can review your self-assessment or audit your compliance at any time. Picus validates your fundamental controls against real attack techniques and turns the results into dated, audit-ready evidence. That covers the controls SAMA looks at, from identity and access to endpoint, network, and detection, so a lean team stays ready for sandbox graduation, licensing, and an unannounced review. See how Picus supports each CRFR control: https://hubs.li/Q04vvhC40 #SAMA #CRFR #Compliance #ExposureValidation
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We are excited to announce that Picus Security has officially joined CrowdStrike's Project QuiltWorks. This goes well beyond another technology integration. Bringing continuous security validation into the QuiltWorks ecosystem means working alongside CrowdStrike and its growing partner network to help customers identify and remediate risk, and then continuously prove their defenses actually work. Picus validation data feeds back into CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, turning real-world validation results into actionable intelligence that helps organizations continuously understand and improve their security posture. As our Co-founder and CTO Volkan Erturk puts it, vulnerability discovery shows defenders where to look; exposure validation proves where to act. We look forward to what we will build with CrowdStrike and the QuiltWorks members across joint solutions, services, and go-to-market motions. Learn more: https://hubs.li/Q04vZXvF0 #CrowdStrike #ProjectQuiltWorks #ExposureValidation #Partnership
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Defense wins championships. On the pitch and off it. ⚽ As Juventus Football Club begins the 2026/27 season, Picus is proud to continue as the club's Official Exposure Validation Partner, keeping the digital side of the game as strong as the squad on the field. Wishing Juventus every success in the season ahead. Fino alla fine. #Juventus #Cybersecurity #ExposureValidation
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An attacker inside your environment maps the domain, enumerates the shares, finds the sessions, and reads credential material. Only then do they move laterally. The Blue Report 2026 measured how often controls interrupt that first phase. Discovery and collection get blocked 1 time in 10. Attackers scope your network. Controls stop 1 in 10. By the time the loud action fires, the quiet work is done. The webinar covers how to detect activity that looks almost identical to a normal user, without drowning in false positives. Candid Wüest of xorlab takes that exact question. Save your seat: https://hubs.li/Q04vv8r60 #BlueReport2026 #DetectionEngineering #CyberSecurity
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The hardest instruction in the NCA frameworks is also the shortest: review periodically. CSCC sets the pace for critical systems: configuration and firewall reviews every six months, vulnerability assessments every month, penetration tests twice a year. A point-in-time review covers the day it ran, and nothing in between. The Picus Platform makes that cadence sustainable. Scheduled simulations prove your controls block and detect real attacks, and every run produces scored, time-stamped evidence for auditors and the Authorizing Official. Compliance becomes a byproduct of validation that runs year-round. How Picus maps to ECC and CSCC: https://hubs.li/Q04tQpmz0 #NCA #ECC #CSCC #SaudiArabia #SecurityValidation
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The Minnesota water attacks reset what "low-skill" means for OT. No zero-day. No custom malware. According to the FBI and EPA advisory (July 2026), attackers found MicroLogix PLCs exposed straight to the internet, changed their IP addresses, and set passwords to lock operators out. That's it. More than 30 communities disrupted over one weekend. Two details make this worse than a one-off: ⤷ At least one utility found modified ladder logic, not just config changes. That means the process itself can be driven into an unsafe state, and a restored backup can quietly reintroduce attacker logic if nobody validates it first. ⤷ And the FBI saw the same insecure network design repeated across victims, delivered by shared third-party integrators. One technique, many identical targets. The lesson holds beyond water. If you don't continuously validate what's exposed and whether your controls detect tampering, you're trusting that nobody looks. How the attacks unfolded, step by step: https://hubs.li/Q04tQ4WM0 #OTSecurity #ICS #PLCSecurity #CriticalInfrastructure
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Picus is coming to http://Fal.Con 2026. Join us from August 31 to September 3 at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Booth #1647. Fewer than 2% of CVEs warrant urgent patching. The hard part is proving which ones. At the booth, we will show how Picus Platform integrates with CrowdStrike Falcon to validate what is actually exploitable in your environment, so your team stops patching by severity score and starts remediating by real risk. Stop by for live demos with our security experts, exclusive swag, and our giveaway. Or skip the line and book a meeting: https://hubs.li/Q04tPWQn0 See you in Vegas. #FalCon2026 #CrowdStrike #ExposureValidation #Cybersecurity
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Teams invested in telemetry pipelines. The log score rose. Teams expanded log source coverage. The log score rose again, to a four-year high of 58%. Teams waited for detection to follow. The alert score held at 14%. Logging hit a four-year high. Alerts stayed flat. More telemetry, on its own, does not produce more detection. The Blue Report 2026 webinar covers what closes the gap: detection content that gets written, tested, tuned, and re-validated like engineering work. Register here: https://hubs.li/Q04tQj4q0 #BlueReport2026 #SecOps #ThreatExposureManagement
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