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Validate Security Posture Across IT/OT Environments
Organizations with IT and OT networks use Picus to validate defenses against ransomware, ICS malware, and APTs while protecting uptime, verifying segmentation, and securing critical systems without disruption.
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Use Cases
Strengthen IT and OT Defenses with
Evidence-Driven Validation
See how your IT/OT defenses perform against real threats such as ransomware moving between business systems and control networks or misconfigurations that expose critical devices. Picus helps test the gaps that matter most.
IT/OT networks are segmented, legacy-heavy, and hard to monitor. CTEM helps continuously identify and validate exposures across industrial systems and enterprise infrastructure.
Attack Simulation (BAS)
Simulate ransomware, ICS-specific malware, and APT techniques without risking disruption. BAS validates whether your firewalls, EDRs, and segmentation controls can detect and block real threats across both IT and OT systems.
Testing
Reveal attack paths that bridge IT and OT. Automated pentesting uncovers chained risks—like weak identities and flat network zones—without manual red teaming or interrupting operations.
Not every vulnerability can be patched in OT. AEV cuts through the noise and shows which exposures across your IT and OT environment are truly exploitable and need attention first.
Built for The Real World Challenges of IT/OT Systems
From ransomware simulations to validating control effectiveness and generating compliance reports, Picus helps healthcare security teams stay ahead of threats, meet regulatory demands like HIPAA and HITRUST, and focus on fixing what truly puts patient care at risk.
Simulate end-to-end ransomware campaigns across IT/OT boundaries from initial access to lateral movement across industrial segments. Identify and fix weak links in layered defenses without risking operational uptime.
Validate that segmentation between IT and OT layers is enforced effectively. Picus tests lateral movement attempts across network segments, validating firewalls, ACLs, and IDS/IPS coverage without impacting availability.
Assess how well your SIEM, IDS, and endpoint tools detect real adversarial behaviors specific to OT environments. Fine-tune detection rules and validate logging efficacy across IT and OT assets.
Streamline audits and demonstrate evidence of security control performance. Picus simplifies compliance with automated reporting and real-world validation, enabling teams to generate audit-ready evidence effortlessly.
Simulate targeted ICS attacks, ransomware campaigns, and known APT behaviors to proactively identify blind spots across IT/OT networks.
Help stretched teams focus on what matters. Picus validates which attacks your systems actually block and prioritizes what they miss.
Why Industrial and Critical Infrastructure Organizations Choose Picus
Security teams responsible for complex IT/OT ecosystems rely on Picus for continuous, scalable, and risk-based validation. Here’s how Picus helps your key stakeholders:
- CISOs gain evidence-based insights into risk across IT and OT domains, enabling informed investment and board-level reporting.
- SOC Managers reduce alert fatigue, validate detection pipelines, and confirm that segmentation controls work as designed.
- Compliance Leaders accelerate audits with proof of control effectiveness aligned with industry frameworks.
- Security Analysts validate security posture without requiring red team expertise and apply recommended mitigations confidently.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Organizations with hybrid IT/OT networks face unique and evolving threats, including ransomware targeting industrial systems, ICS-specific malware, APT groups, insider threats, and vulnerabilities in legacy OT assets. Due to limited visibility and segmented architectures, these environments often lack effective prevention and detection capabilities across both enterprise and operational layers. Continuous validation helps identify exploitable gaps and confirms whether critical controls can stop real-world attack techniques.
Ransomware in IT/OT environments doesn’t just impact data; it disrupts physical operations. These attacks can halt production lines, damage equipment, and compromise worker safety. Downtime in sectors like manufacturing or energy can cost millions per day, with far-reaching supply chain consequences. Picus helps validate ransomware readiness across the full kill chain from initial access to data encryption so that organizations can detect and respond before operational impact occurs.
Effective network segmentation is critical in IT/OT environments, but often poorly validated. Picus tests if segmentation controls like firewalls, ACLs, and VLANs actually prevent lateral movement between IT and OT zones. By simulating attack paths used in real campaigns, organizations can confirm that isolation policies are enforced and attackers can’t pivot between systems. This continuous validation reduces the risk of full-scale intrusions and supports zero-trust architecture goals.
Point-in-time assessments don’t reflect the dynamic nature of threats targeting IT/OT systems. New vulnerabilities emerge constantly, often in unmanaged or unpatched assets, and adversaries adapt quickly. Continuous validation ensures that defenses are tested regularly against the latest TTPs, giving teams clear evidence of control effectiveness and detection gaps. This is especially important where traditional security monitoring tools lack coverage or context in OT environments.
Yes. Picus simplifies compliance with automated reporting and continuous validation, enabling teams to generate audit-ready evidence effortlessly. Rather than relying on static checklists, organizations can prove continuous improvement through actionable results from simulated attack scenarios.
Yes. Picus simulates ransomware behaviors from initial infection to encryption and data exfiltration, allowing healthcare organizations to assess their defenses across the kill chain. This includes validating endpoint protection, email gateways, segmentation, and detection workflows. With visibility into what techniques are detected or blocked, teams can proactively close gaps, reduce dwell time, and strengthen preparedness against high-impact ransomware threats.