Picus Exposure Validation

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.