Introduction to Exposure Validation

Global Adoption Trends

40% of Organizations to Formally Adopt Exposure Validation by 2027

As digital infrastructure grows more complex, traditional annual penetration testing and infrequent assessments are no longer enough to provide peace of mind. Gartner predicts a massive shift toward Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) technologies as security teams look for consistent, scalable ways to verify their posture against AI-powered adversaries.

REDUCTION OF OVERWHELMING EXPOSURE VOLUMES

Manageable List of Actions Derived from Thousands of Exposures

Remediating every discovered vulnerability or misconfiguration has become a practical impossibility for modern security teams. Exposure Validation acts as a critical filter, reducing overwhelming lists of theoretical risks to a focused subset of exposures that are proven to be exploitable and pose a genuine threat to your most business-critical assets.

ADVANTAGES OF AN AUTOMATED APPROACH:

Moving Beyond the Limitations of Manual Security Testing Methods

Traditional manual testing is too slow, narrow in scope, and varies too much in quality to protect modern environments. By transitioning to an automated approach, organizations can eliminate concerns regarding configuration drift and reduce team fatigue while identifying critical attack paths that manual processes often miss.

PROVEN LEADERSHIP BY SECURITY PEERS

Gartner Customers’ Choice:
98% Willingness to Recommend

Picus is the highest-rated vendor in the Gartner® Voice of the Customer for AEV, with a 4.8/5.0 rating and 98% willingness to recommend. 

We operationalize CTEM by linking theoretical vulnerabilities to real-world behaviors to prove what is actually exploitable. By factoring in actual control performance, Picus helps teams reduce backlogs by 86%, decrease MTTR by 81%, and save $580K in annual labor costs. Trust the peer-proven leader to move beyond theory and prioritize the gaps that truly matter.