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Automated Penetration Testing:
Accurate, Risk-Free, and Continuous

See how attackers move through your environment and prioritize mitigation efforts where they make the biggest impact.

Traditional automated penetration testing tools are known for generating noise—large volumes of vulnerability reports that lack actionable insights. Teams are left to navigate issues like system crashes, network outages, and lists of vulnerabilities without any context. The result? Time wasted on problems that don’t matter, while critical gaps are left open.

While automated pentesting provides broad coverage, it lacks the precision to focus on exploitable vulnerabilities. It tells you where issues exist but doesn’t show how attackers could leverage them to move laterally or escalate privileges.

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What makes Picus unique?
We combine the broad reach of automated penetration testing with the precision of attack path mapping, giving you a comprehensive view of your security posture. With clear, actionable results, you can address vulnerabilities efficiently and effectively—saving time, reducing effort, and strengthening your defenses.

Benefits of Picus Automated Penetration Testing

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Initiate automated or scheduled tests from any point in the network for broad and timely vulnerability findings.
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Identify high-impact exposures and find the shortest routes attackers can take.
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Visualize where multiple attack paths converge and remove “choke points” to ensure the highest security impact.
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Get mitigation recommendations to address vulnerabilities and misconfigurations at choke points, reducing time spent on research.

Picus Approach to Automated Pentesting & Attack Path Mapping

Automated penetration testing to uncover critical vulnerabilities coupled with attack path mapping to visualize risks without disruption.
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Visualize high-risk attack paths and see how attackers could leverage vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to compromise servers, workstations, and users to achieve their goals, such as gaining domain admin privileges.

APV is powered by an intelligent decision engine that replicates the approach of real attackers. It determines how the assessment objective can be achieved in the most efficient and evasive way possible.

Benefit from automated pentesting, which broadly tests your security posture like “fishing with a net,” and attack path mapping, which focuses on specific attack vectors like "fishing with a spear.” When used together, these approaches provide a comprehensive security strategy.

Discover attack paths that are currently open to threat actors, all mapped to the unified kill chain. Combining Breach and Attack Simulation with Automated Penetration Testing allows you to address the highest-risk exposures more efficiently.

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Exploitation, detection and mitigation strategies
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Why Security Leaders Choose Picus

Picus Attack Path Validation is the only solution providing a continuous, risk-free, and accurate approach to automated penetration testing and attack path mapping.

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Alternatives

Fever False-Positives
Adopts an evasive approach for its implant and activities, emulating real-world advanced attackers. This perspective ensures that the testing process remains stealthy, avoiding premature detection and providing a more accurate representation of genuine threat scenarios.
Less stealthy approach leads to premature triggering of security defenses, potentially skewing test results and not accurately reflecting real-world attack scenarios.
Flexibility
Assessments can be initiated from any point within the network.
Limited starting point flexibility, requiring main node relocation for different assessments.
Autonomous
Can run on autopilot, automatically initiating and executing continuous simulations without user intervention.
Requires continuous user oversight and approval for each exploit attempt.
Risk-Free Operations
Secure testing process that automatically safeguards critical systems and avoids the complexities and risks associated with manual exploit approvals.
Allows users to enable potentially disruptive vulnerabilities and requires manual selection or exclusion of specific threats.
Stability
Reliable performance even in large network environments.
Prone to crashes and instability in large network environments.
OUR CustomerS SAY

Picus APV has been instrumental in elevating our proactive defense capabilities, particularly through its automated penetration testing features. 

Its capabilities allow us to identify gaps swiftly and enhance our cybersecurity posture in real-time. 

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