Breach and attack simulation platform for validating security control effectiveness
Picus Security operates a breach and attack simulation (BAS) platform focused on measuring whether organizations' existing security controls actually work against real attack techniques. The company is sales-driven—13 of 23 active roles are in sales, with a senior-heavy hiring mix across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific—while facing recurring pain around scaling customer success and global platform adoption, suggesting a product-market-fit validation phase with infrastructure catching up to demand.
Picus Security builds a unified exposure validation platform that simulates attacks across network, endpoint, and cloud environments to measure security control performance. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, the company serves mid-market and enterprise defenders who need clarity on what their existing tools (SIEM, XDR, EDR, cloud-native services) can actually stop. The platform combines exposure assessment, control validation, and adversarial technique simulation aligned to MITRE ATT&CK frameworks. Operations span eight countries across sales, security, and customer success functions, with active work on attack simulation engine improvements and customer deployment optimization.
Picus uses AWS infrastructure (GuardDuty, WAF, Security Hub, CloudTrail, IAM), SIEM/EDR/XDR platforms for integration, Azure and GCP for multi-cloud support, and Active Directory for identity. The company is actively adopting SOAR tools.
Picus Security is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates offices and hiring across eight countries including Turkey, Australia, Canada, and India.
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