Picus Security

24 hours to exploit. 43 days to fix. That is the gap every CISO is now budgeting around. AI compressed time-to-exploit to roughly 24 hours. Median fix time for known-exploited vulnerabilities stretched to 43 days, up from 32. Boards want same-day patching, and the data says no amount of pressure delivers it. Our new practical guide lays out the argument CISOs are already acting on: move budget from chasing patch velocity to validating what your defenses actually stop. It shows the shift in practice, then closes with the numbers that defend the line item in front of a board. Download the guide now: https://hubs.li/Q04mqF2B0 #BreachAndAttackSimulation #VulnerabilityManagement #CISO

When attacks move faster, untested controls become the gap. Get the new playbook for the post-Mythos era. Read it here: https://hubs.li/Q04mmsxH0 #Cybersecurity #ExposureValidation #SecurityValidation #Mythos

Some of our best team moments happen off the clock. This time, we took to the Bosphorus 🌊 Our Istanbul team set sail for our annual summer gathering. A boat tour that reminded us why we love working together and why Istanbul is simply unmatched. From the iconic skyline to the warm sea breeze, it was the perfect backdrop for great conversations, shared meals, and a lot of laughter. We work hard, and we celebrate together. Thank you, Team Picus 💙 #PicusSecurity #TeamPicus #LifeAtPicus

Bring your hardest validation question to Booth 2. Pengfei Yu, Solutions Architect at Picus, will be at AISA SydneySec on 3 July to walk through how teams test their live controls against current adversary behavior and turn assumptions into board-ready evidence. If you want a working answer to "would our stack actually stop this," book time with him directly. Find him at Booth 2, Hilton Sydney. Full agenda: https://hubs.li/Q04mqFR_0 #AISASydneySec #ExposureValidation #CTEM #CyberSecurity

Patch faster. That is the industry reflex, and it does not change the physics. Patches clear regression testing, wait for change windows, need approvals, and respect uptime and compliance commitments. Taking production down to outrun an exploit is just a different outage. The data backs it up. Verizon's 2026 DBIR tracked 13,000+ organizations. The share of known-exploited vulnerabilities fully patched fell from 38% to 26%. Even the best performers close only 30 to 40% in the first week, a rate that has barely moved despite years of investment. CVSS triage worked when a few dozen criticals landed per quarter. It does not stand a chance against hundreds or thousands of disclosures a day, where everything scores a 9 or a 10 and prioritizing everything prioritizes nothing. The bottleneck moved. The strategy has to move with it: prove what is exploitable against you, validate the controls you already paid for, and spend remediation time only where it changes the outcome. Full breakdown on The Hacker News: https://hubs.li/Q04mqz-Y0 #VulnerabilityManagement #ExposureValidation #CISO

A vulnerability scanner tells you a CVE exists. It never tells you if an attacker can actually use it. That gap is where most exposure programs leak time. Automated penetration testing closes it. The tool runs the real exploit against your live environment and only records a finding when the exploit works against your actual configuration and controls. If a control already blocks it, the tool flags the attempt and moves on. No finding. You stop chasing a list of theoretical CVEs and start fixing the ones an attacker can reach today. That changes the question your team answers every week. Not "how many criticals do we have" but "which exploitable paths put domain admin in reach." Full breakdown of how it works: https://hubs.li/Q04mqpvc0 #AutomatedPenetrationTesting #ExposureManagement #OffensiveSecurity

A payroll compliance manager logs into Slack, Salesforce, and Google Drive. Normal access, normal role, nothing flagged. For four months, they funnel customer lists, pricing data, and competitive intelligence to a competitor. Nobody notices until a honeypot channel exposes the pattern. That's the 2025 Rippling vs Deel case, and it captures what makes insider threats so hard. They don't trip your firewall. They don't trigger your EDR. They look like normal work, until they don't. The thread running through every major insider case, Tesla, Yahoo, Rippling, isn't motive. It's access. In each one, the person had legitimate credentials, did things their role allowed, and stayed invisible long enough to cause real damage. Perimeter tools were never going to catch this. The defense is proving that someone with valid access could reach inside your environment, before they go looking for themselves. Full piece with all three case files: https://hubs.li/Q04l_rq40 #InsiderThreat #Cybersecurity #ExposureValidation

Automate your pentest, and you've solved exposure validation. You haven't. Running a live exploit is the strongest proof there is, and automated pentesting tools do it well. They take the quarterly manual pentest and run it continuously, at scale. That's real progress. It's also only half the answer. Automating the launch makes you faster. It doesn't change what a launch can reach. You can only fire a live exploit where it's safe and where a working exploit already exists. That leaves three gaps no automated pentesting tool closes: Vulnerabilities with no public or safe exploit. Nothing to launch, so live testing can't tell you whether they're exploitable in your environment. Business-critical, regulated, and air-gapped systems. The assets that matter most are the ones you can't safely detonate an exploit against. New exploits not yet in your tooling. Attackers move during the window before your launch is ready. The strongest programs treat the automated pentest as one half of the answer, not the finish line. Full piece from Dr. Suleyman Ozarslan: https://hubs.li/Q04l_qln0 #ExposureValidation #Cybersecurity #CTEM #PenetrationTesting

Ransomware crews used to chase the richest targets. Tengu is doing the opposite, and it should change who feels safe. Tengu operators deliberately skip heavily defended organizations in North America and Western Europe. Instead, they focus on Morocco, Iran, the UAE, Spain, and Brazil. The logic is cold: softer defenses, same payday. If your region used to feel like a lower-priority target, that assumption no longer holds. The method travels regardless of geography. Stolen credentials into RDP or VPN, living-off-the-land binaries to stay quiet, LSASS dumping for domain admin, exfiltration to MEGA, then encryption with the .tengu extension. A double-extortion model first seen in October 2025 and already running this playbook at scale. Defending against it doesn't start with a new tool. It starts with proof that your current controls catch the behavior. Picus has a ready Tengu simulation, Threat ID 25863. Read the full attack chain: https://hubs.li/Q04l_gRc0 #Ransomware #ThreatIntel #Cybersecurity #BAS

Picus earned another 5-star review on Gartner Peer Insights. "Professional and positive experience. Tool performs very well and helped us to monitor and improve security posture. Appreciated Customer Success reliability." — Manager, IT Security and Risk Management, Banking Read the full review here: https://hubs.li/Q04l_lrh0 #gartnerpeerinsights