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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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.
Defensive Posture Optimization	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.
Exposure Awareness	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

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.

Picus integrations require a separate agent and a custom API to integrate each one.
Cymulate offers the same level of control integrations but is easier to deploy and provides more flexibility for users.

Picus updates to control detection rules may require manual updates to the API, and its automated control updates are limited to Crowdstrike.
Cymulate provides mitigation guidance and rule recommendations to fine-tune security configurations and strengthen your defenses.

Picus only tests cloud security configurations, not cloud controls.
Cymulate provides both pre- and post-exploitation simulations to test and validate the threat detection and runtime of security controls for different layers of your cloud architecture.

Picus tests basic lateral movement within a user-defined scope.
Cymulate provides white box and grey box testing to validate attack paths and evaluate lateral movement.

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

Singapore Bank

“Cymulate is a great solution for organizations interested in both security control validation and automated pen testing.”

- Senior Security Manager

Utility Organization

“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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