Picus Named #1 Breach and Attack Simulation Solution by G2 for the Fifth Consecutive Time

Sıla Özeren Hacıoğlu | 6 MIN READ

| August 28, 2026

Picus Security has again been ranked the #1 Breach and Attack Simulation Solution in the G2 Grid® Report for Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS). The Fall 2026 report marks the fifth consecutive time Picus has held the top position, built on the largest and highest-rated body of verified customer reviews in the category.

Five reports. One name in the top-right corner. At some point a streak stops being a headline and becomes the baseline, and the numbers behind this one are not close: across all eleven products G2 evaluated in the Fall 2026 report, Picus is the only one scoring above 90 on both axes of the Grid®.

The Numbers Behind the Fifth Win

G2 places products on the Grid® using two independent axes: customer satisfaction, drawn entirely from verified reviews, and market presence, drawn from market share, seller size, and social impact. Picus leads both.

Fall 2026 G2 Grid® for BAS	Picus Security	Next-highest Leader
G2 Score	95	81
Satisfaction	98	75
Market Presence	93	86
Reviews	229	174

A few things stand out in that table. Picus is the only product in the entire category scoring above 90 on both axes. The satisfaction score of 98 sits 23 points clear of the next vendor. And the review count is not just the highest in the category, it is higher than the next two Leaders combined, which matters because G2 satisfaction scores are only as trustworthy as the volume of evidence behind them.

The review-level detail tells the same story. Picus holds a 4.8 out of 5 average rating, with 212 of 229 reviewers awarding a perfect 5 stars, a Net Promoter Score of 92 against a category average of 81, and 99% of customers saying the product is going in the right direction, the highest confidence signal in the report. Across all eight satisfaction dimensions G2 measures, from Quality of Support to Ease of Setup, Picus scores at or above the category average.

"Picus Security is an outstanding platform for continuous security validation, providing clear visibility into which controls are active and what threats are being blocked." — G2 Reviewer

Why Picus Keeps Leading the BAS Category

The window between a vulnerability going public and an adversary weaponizing it has collapsed. New CVEs turn into working attacks in hours, and capable intruders move from initial access to their objective in well under an hour. The old operating rhythm, scan on a schedule, rank by severity, queue the backlog, and assume the controls are working, quietly breaks against an adversary moving at machine speed.

Picus’ Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) is how defenders close that gap. Instead of assuming an EDR, SIEM, firewall, or WAF will catch an attack, teams prove it, continuously, against the techniques adversaries are using this week. Five consecutive G2 wins suggest the market settled this argument some time ago. Continuous, evidence-based control validation is not a nice-to-have.

When G2's analysis engine groups the Fall 2026 reviews by theme, the top five are Simulation, Ease of Use, Continuous Validation, Actionable Insights, and Integration. That is a remarkably tight description of what a BAS platform is supposed to do, and it has been the same five themes report after report.

Simulations that reflect this week's threats, not last quarter's

Reviewers consistently point to the breadth and the freshness of the Picus threat library, covering endpoint attacks, ransomware, credential compromise, lateral movement, network controls, web application firewalls, and multi-cloud environments. Simulations are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, so results land in a language detection engineers already speak.

"What I like most about Picus is how easy it makes running attack simulations aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework. I can clearly see which security controls are effective and where the gaps are, not just in detection, but also in prevention." — G2 Reviewer

From a finding to a defensible decision

The value security teams call out most often is not that Picus surfaces a gap. It is that Picus tells them exactly what to do about it. Every validated result resolves into one of four defensible calls, Patch, Mitigate, Monitor, or Accept with Evidence, each backed by vendor-specific, environment-aware guidance: the signature to deploy, the rule to tune, the firmware to upgrade.

"Picus provides real-time visibility and insight into real-world attacks that would succeed today. Fixes recommended are actionable, not generic. Leading to mass reduction in noise and faster remediation." — G2 Reviewer

That is the line between validation and noise. Finding the exposure was never the hard part. Proving the right decision about it is the gap Picus closes, and it is the theme running through five reports of customer feedback.

Detection engineering that keeps pace with the threat

With AI Threat Builder, a team hands Picus unstructured intelligence, a threat report URL, a PDF, a CVE identifier, or even a threat-actor name, and gets back a fully playable, ATT&CK-mapped simulation in minutes. Picus then confirms whether the resulting alerts actually fire in their own SIEM and ships the signatures to close the gaps that do not.

Reviewers describe the practical version of this at device level, down to the specific signature ID.

"Picus also provides actionable SignatureID-level recommendations for security devices such as firewalls, IPS, and EDRs, enabling rapid tuning and enhanced threat detection." — G2 Reviewer

Validation that runs itself

The newest capability reviewers are responding to is the agentic layer. Picus Swarm coordinates a set of AI agents that plan, execute, and drive the full validation loop, validate, decide, fix, and re-validate, continuously and with minimal manual effort. For BAS specifically, that means control validation that does not stop at a one-time test. It keeps proving, across on-premises, cloud, and endpoint environments, that the defenses standing today are the ones the business is counting on.

Evidence the whole organization can use

Validation only pays off when the results travel. Reviewers describe Picus reaching well beyond the security engineering team, into the SOC, into vendor conversations, into the board deck.

"It is also used by very upper management of companies by scoring of detection and prevention capabilities. As a customer, you can benchmark your capabilities with other companies (anonymized) in the same sector and same country." — G2 Reviewer

"Finally, we can answer the question: 'How secure are we?' Picus enables us and our clients to objectively test cybersecurity systems and maximize their effectiveness. It also allows us to assess the level of security we have achieved and to justify past and future investments." — G2 Reviewer

What Reviewers Are Asking For Next

A 98 satisfaction score is not the same as a finished product, and the reviews behind this report include a clear to-do list. Teams want more flexible reporting, with separate views for executives and technical audiences. They want deeper bi-directional integrations with niche SIEM, SOAR, and EDR tooling. They want faster WAF proof-of-concept cycles and broader post-sales training. And several reviewers ask for the AI capabilities to go further, faster.

We publish these because five consecutive wins came from listening to exactly this kind of feedback, and because the roadmap that produced AI Threat Builder and Picus Swarm was shaped by the same reviews that asked for them.

A Thank You to Our Customers

Five wins in the G2 Grid® Report for Breach and Attack Simulation are a reflection of customer voice at scale: 229 verified reviews, a 4.8 rating, and praise sustained across capabilities and across every report G2 has published in this category.

To every customer who shared their experience, contributed feedback, or championed Picus inside their organization, thank you. This recognition is yours.

The threat window will keep shrinking, and Picus will keep helping teams validate exposure, strengthen detection, and close gaps with confidence, one validated defense at a time.