Cymulate vs.
Picus Security

Operationalize validation into cyber defense engineering workflows with tailored testing and custom mitigations.

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Why Customers Choose Cymulate Over Picus Security 

The future of cyber defense is continuous, intelligent and automated. Cymulate integrates security validation into agentic cyber defense engineering that keeps organizations ahead of evolving threats.

Test the threats that matter
Test the threats that matter
Never outgrow your validation program with an expansive attack library that updates daily and delivers comprehensive cloud, identity and AI advanced validation.
Validate end-to-end
Validate end-to-end
Transform continuous security validation with AI orchestration, unified security context, risk-based prioritization and automated mitigation.
Prove with reliable results
Prove with reliable results
Validate with precise and flexible SIEM and EDR querying through unique integration configuration, effectively eliminating any false positives.

Real Cymulate Customer Outcomes 

↓ 81%

Reduction in security risk score in 4 months

↓ 25%

Reduction in manual security operations tasks

↓ 70%

Reduction of vulnerabilities from previous pen test

“Cymulate is not only for security control validation; it also provides extensive intelligence on threats and vulnerabilities and gives you a comprehensive picture of your organization's cyber resilience—all in an automated fashion to increase team efficiency and accuracy.”
– SOC Manager, Civil Engineering Organization

Why Customers Switch to Cymulate from Picus 

Tailor validation

Agentic workflows tailor testing to your threats, environment and business objectives.

Integrate workflows for secops and more

Build validation into security program with workflows that connect red teams, detection engineering and exposure management.

Test and prove with confidence

Execute consistent, high-fidelity attack simulations that deliver dependable and actionable results.

Best-in-class exposure validation

Recognized as a leader by Gartner and G2, Cymulate combines proven adversarial exposure validation with continuous innovation in agentic cyber defense engineering.

Backed by the Industry

Customer’s Choice

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

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Gartner® Market Guide

Cymulate recognized as a Gartner® Representative Vendor for Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)

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The Cymulate Difference

Complete Threat Coverage
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Complete Threat Coverage
Cymulate includes the most comprehensive threat library with full MITRE ATT&CK coverage. The platform includes a daily feed of the latest threats with a 24-hour SLA for updated attack simulations for new US Cert threat advisories.
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Agentic Workflows
Cymulate applies AI to analyze new threats and tailor validation to your environment – assets, applications, exposures, industry and more. Agents prioritize security findings and create actionable and automated mitigations.
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Defense Engineering Control Plane
Engineering-native integrations create a closed-loop system that turns validation into continuous improvement across security controls, security operations, detection engineering and exposure management.

What Our Customers Say

>300 5-star reviews

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“I use many security solutions, but Cymulate is a must if you want to ensure your organization is safe from cyber threats. It's easy to use, intuitive, and the customer support is unparalleled.”
Ariel Kashir, CISO
"The product shows a really intuitive and user friendly dashboard that provides a very high functionality to run the most common risk vector to assess the security posture of our organization."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
“Cymulate gives us visibility regarding what misconfigurations are exploitable so we can prioritize remediation. It allows us to take a risk-based approach.”
Renaldo Jack, Group Cybersecurity Head
“It is easy to use and the platform is very easy to understand for making the team understand about the potential threats.”
Security Consultant
"Great tool to have to give the visibility on the shortcomings in email, web channel or DLP, attack simulation is on par with the current threats including ransomwares."
Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
"Great tool to have to give the visibility on the shortcomings in email, web channel or DLP, attack simulation is on par with the current threats including ransomwares."
Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
"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 Information Security
“Exposure Management with user friendly dashboard, extensive threat simulation and updated malware IOCs, cusomizable report, user notifications.”
Information Technology and Services
“Cymulate helps our small security team prioritize our workload and focus on high-risk issues to boost our efficiency and ensure optimal resource allocation. It also enables us to illustrate the value of our cybersecurity efforts to our executives by quantifying risk reduction.”
Haran Mamankaran, Lead Cyber Defense Engineer
“I am particularly enamored with the immediate threats module and how quickly this gets updated. In short if an attack is new, you can quickly assess your IT estate for how much of a risk is posed to you and implement remedial action quickly.”
Penetration Tester
“Cymulate effectively communicates risks to management in a clear and articulate way. Cymulate helps my company to assess the latest cyber security attacks by providing real-time insights and simulating attacks. This allows us to improve our defenses and clearly communicate risks to stakeholder.”
Security Specialist
“We use the Cymulate reporting to track our improvement over time. We present this data visually to stakeholders who are not security experts in a way they can understand.”
Dan Baylis, CISO
“User-friendly portal, excellent support and consistent updates to simulate the emerging threat effectively.”
Chief Risk Manager
“Cymulate is one of the only tools I know that can show internal stakeholders who have no knowledge of cybersecurity why cybersecurity is important and something worth investing in.”
Markus Flatscher, Senior Security Manager
"Cymulate provides me cybersecurity visibility and resilience metrics enabling us to make data-driven decisions.”
Arkadiy Goykhberg, CISO
“Cymulate is effective at highlighting where action is required. Rather than provide a list of ‘vulnerabilities’ Cymulate provides management context which is actionable.”
Head of Cybersecurity
"Cymulate cloud validation features give us confidence in our operation in the cloud."
Head of Information Security Operations
“The platform does exactly what they say it does... it's easy to navigate and configure, suggested mitigation steps make sense and are effective, and the after sales support is first class.”
Head of Information Security Operations
"Cymulate is easy to implement and use—all you need to do is click a few buttons, and you receive a lot of practical insights into how you can improve your security posture."
Raphael Ferreira, Cybersecurity Manager
"Cymulate's Three-Year Impact - A Proactive Defense With Powerful Simulations."
"User-friendly and easy to deploy, it’s the best solution for communicating risks to management."
IT Security & Risk Management Assistant,
"Elevating Security Posture with Real-Time Threat Simulations using Cymulate"

Upgrading from Picus to Cymulate is easy. 

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

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Learn from our customers’ success​

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