Cymulate vs Picus Security

You don’t have time to manage another security platform. Optimize your security defenses with an easy-to-use platform that covers the full kill-chain.  

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Rated #1 in Exposure Management by G2

Cymulate Named Exposure Management Leader with 18 G2 Badges

Cymulate Named a
Customer’s Choice

2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for
Adversarial Exposure Validation 

Simplify Exposure Validation  

Security teams recognize they don’t need more assessments – they need a way to improve. Picus provides basic breach and attack simulation that requires too many assessments because each control is evaluated individually. A basic test for ransomware best practices could require eight different assessments. If you want to validate detection, that will cost extra while requiring double the agents and custom queries to sync every scenario. 
 
Cymulate Exposure Validation provides a complete solution with both breach and attack simulation and automated red teaming in a platform built to make every blue teamer and red team better. The Cymulate platform can test all controls in a single test or go deep on a single control to optimize prevention and detection for on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments. By validating controls, threats and response, Cymulate customers can focus on the exploitable and not waste time configuring another security platform.  

Cymulate vs Picus Comparison Chart

Use Case
Capabilities
Picus Security
Defensive Posture Optimization
Security controls integrations
Deep control integrations to validate detection and prevention.
Offers many control integrations, but the technical requirements are cumbersome with a dedicated agent and manual query creation for every scenario that requires detection validation. 
Threat-informed defenses
Automates IoC updates to controls.
Custom detection rules for EDR, SIEM and XDR control tuning guidance.
Automated control updates limited to Crowdstrike. 
Manually download and apply rules to each control. 
Scale Offensive Testing
Attack Scenario creation workbench
Build custom attack chains from a library of >100,000 attack actions.
Create custom scenarios/ attack actions.
AI attack planner converts threat advisories and plain language prompts into custom attack chains.
Chained assessments are not realistic because there is no delay between actions. 
Automation, extensible testing
Out-of-the box templates for threats, controls, cloud, Kubernetes and more. 
Modify templates and best practices for your specific environment (OS, cloud, databases, SaaS, etc.) 
No testing of cloud security controls, only cloud configurations. 
Attack paths
Automated red teaming provides white box and grey box testing to validate attack paths. 
Limited to basic lateral movement with user-defined scope. 
Exposure Awareness
Automated & continuous testing
Easy and automated testing for continuous validation of threats, security controls, threats and response capabilities. 
Basic breach and attack simulation for repeatable testing. 
Always current attack scenario knowledge
Daily updates of the latest threats and continuously adding new assessments. 
Basic threat updates.

Exposure validation that filters out the noise, so you can focus on the exploitable.

Validate Controls

Find and fix your gaps

Validate Threats

Know your risk

Validate Response

BATTLE test your SOC

Cymulate Hardens Defenses and Optimizes Controls 

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Cymulate Hardens Defenses and Optimizes Controls 

Picus chained assessments are not realistic because there is no delay between actions. 
Cymulate provides simple no-code workflows to build attack chains from a library of more than 100,000 attack actions with options for customization. 

Why Companies Choose Cymulate Over Picus

Simple deployment 

Simple deployment accelerates time to value so you can immediately begin optimizing your security controls. 

Full kill-chain visibility 

Provides a range of full kill-chain attacks simulating threat exposure to ransomware, malware, APT groups, CVEs, MITRE TTPs and other types of attack. 

Ease of use 

Simple no-code workflows enable you to build attack chains from a library of more than 100,000 attack actions. 

Best-in-class 

Recognized by both Gartner and G2 as a leader in exposure validation, with a track record of continuous innovation. 

What our customers say about us

Organizations across all industries choose Cymulate for exposure validation, proactively confirming that defenses are robust and reliable-before an attack occurs.

"Cymulate gives us end-to-end visibility of our security posture, helps prove compliance, and saves my team a lot of time and effort."
–  Adam Champion, Head of InfoSec 
“Cymulate is a great solution for organizations interested in both security control validation and automated pen testing.”
- Senior Security Manager
“Cymulate is the best-in-class for automated security validation. It offers the most breadth and depth of attack simulations, provides assessments against emerging threats, and enables us to manage our attack surface.”
–  SOC Manager
“I would recommend Cymulate because of its ease of use, it can quickly provide you a window into how vulnerable or how protected your organization is against external threats.”
- Jorge Ruao, Head of Security Operations

Upgrading from Picus to Cymulate is easy. 

We’ve helped numerous clients upgrade from Picus to Cymulate. We’ll help you build and customize production-safe assessments for all your environments (adding to the ones that Picus covered), optimize your controls and reduce exposure risk. 

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