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PRIORITIZE WHAT ATTACKERS EXPLOIT

Picus Exposure Validation

Test exposures to validate them as 'theoretical' or 'exploitable':

  • Deprioritize theoretical vulnerabilities.
  • Prioritize only those your security controls fail to block.
The Problem

Theoretical Scores Are Overwhelming Your Remediation Efforts

Each year, 40,000+ CVEs emerge, and traditional scores (CVSS, EPSS) label 61% as critical without considering exploitability in your unique environment. Security teams end up flooded by theoretical risks, missing real threats.

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THE SOLUTION

Prioritize Exposures Critical to Your Environment

Remediate real risk first — by simulating cyber attacks against your defenses to prove which exposures are truly exploitable.

Simulate Attacks to Identify Exploitable Exposures

Picus leverages Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) and Automated Pentesting to continuously test your environment, revealing exactly which exposures remain exploitable based on your unique security posture.

Unlike static CVSS, EPSS, or black-box solutions, which fail to account for control effectiveness, Picus shows how your defenses stand up to real-world attacks.

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Streamline Remediation with Actionable Guidance

Picus provides step-by-step remediation guidance, along with ready-to-apply mitigation signatures and detection rules, to accelerate your remediation efforts.

This ensures your defenses are fine-tuned for maximum efficacy, closing critical gaps and improving performance across every layer of your security stack.

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Maximize ROI, Minimize Risk with Evidence

Achieve continuous exposure management by identifying critical vulnerabilities that your defenses can’t address.

Fix critical risks faster and with greater impact through data-driven remediation.

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The Picus Exposure Score (PXS)

Calculate 'Your' Real Risk with Picus Exposure Score

Security Control Performance
PXS incorporates how effectively your existing defenses mitigate each vulnerability.

Asset Importance & Business Context
PXS adjusts exposure scores based on your assets' criticality and business value.

Vulnerability Severity & Exploit Availability
PXS factors in CVSS, as well as exploit data from EPSS, KEV, and other sources.

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THE PICUS SECURITY VALIDATION PLATFORM

Three Pillars That Power Picus Exposure Validation

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)
Automated Penetration Testing
Attack Surface Management

Continuously test your defenses against real-world threats with Picus Security Control Validation (SCV). By verifying which exposures remain exploitable and which controls block them, SCV serves as a foundational pillar of Picus Exposure Validation.

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Perform automated pentests to uncover exploitable paths with Picus Attack Path Validation (APV). Picus APV reveals how attackers can progress through your environment, fueling evidence-based prioritization with Picus Exposure Validation.

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Identify exposed assets within your environment using Picus Attack Surface Validation (ASV). This visibility feeds into Picus Exposure Validation, uncovering potential entry points and offering critical business context to calculate the Picus Exposure Score.

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Why Security Teams Choose Picus

Exposure Validation for Every Security Role

Whether you’re in the SOC or the boardroom, Picus empowers you to make informed, data-driven decisions.

Vulnerability / IT Teams
  • Identify exploitable vulns, deprioritize theoretical risk
  • See real-time control performance

  • Apply provided signatures for compensating controls when patching isn’t feasible

SOC Managers & Blue Teams
  • Boost detection engineering
  • Reveal missed alerts, test SIEM/EDR rules, reduce false positives, and accelerate response
  • Stay prepared for emerging threats and adversary TTPs 
Red Teams / Offensive Security
  • Automate and scale pentesting and red teaming 
  • Automate custom red team playbooks

  • Enable continuous and intelligence-driven adversary emulation

Security Engineers / Architects
  • Uncover coverage gaps and configuration drift
  • Improve control efficacy across networks, endpoints, and cloud
  • Gain measurable metrics to refine security architecture
CISO / Risk Officer
  • Show risk reduction with evidence-based insights
  • Focus on real threats to boost ROI and optimize your defense spending
  • Communicate high-confidence metrics to boards and leadership
Compliance / Audit Teams
  • Continuously validate controls for audit readiness
  • Deliver clear, evidence-backed security reports
  • Simplify audits with readily available compliance data

 

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Deprioritize Theoretical Vulnerabilities

See how Picus Exposure Validation calculates real risk scores, transforming a 10.0 CVSS score to 5.2 Picus Exposure Score.
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Checklist for Exposure Validation Solutions in CTEM
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Adversarial Exposure Validation: Focus on Validated Risks
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Frequently Asked Questions

Picus Exposure Validation is a process used to test and validate security exposures to determine if they are theoretical or exploitable. It helps prioritize vulnerabilities that security controls fail to block and deprioritizes those that are theoretical, enhancing remediation efforts.

Picus Exposure Validation helps prioritize vulnerabilities by simulating cyber attacks to identify which exposures are truly exploitable in your environment. This ensures that remediation efforts focus on real risks rather than theoretical ones.

The Picus Exposure Score (PXS) calculates real-world risk by combining validated control effectiveness, threat simulation outcomes, CVSS severity, EPSS exploit likelihood, and asset criticality. Unlike traditional models, PXS reflects whether a vulnerability is actually exploitable in your environment, based on how your controls perform against real attack behaviors.

The Picus Security Validation Platform enhances security defenses by continuously testing them against real-world threats using Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and Automated Penetration Testing (APT). It identifies critical vulnerabilities that bypass existing preventive controls, as well as security weaknesses exploitable after an adversary gains a foothold, and provides actionable remediation guidance to reduce validated risk.

Picus provides benefits for various security roles, including vulnerability and IT teams, SOC managers, red teams, security engineers, CISOs, and compliance teams, by offering tools for identifying exploitable vulnerabilities, boosting detection engineering, automating penetration testing, uncovering coverage gaps, and validating controls for audit readiness.

Picus helps improve security architecture by uncovering coverage gaps and configuration drift, providing measurable metrics to refine security strategies, and enhancing control efficacy across networks, endpoints, and cloud environments.

Deprioritizing theoretical vulnerabilities is important because it allows security teams to focus on real threats that pose actual risks to the environment, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of remediation efforts and maximizing the return on investment in security measures.

The Picus Security Validation Platform offers several types of validation, including Security Control Validation, Attack Surface Validation, Cloud Security Validation, and Attack Path Validation, ensuring comprehensive assessment and improvement of security measures.