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Breach and Attack Simulation

Measure and strengthen cyber resilience by automatically and continuously testing the effectiveness of your security tools. 

Breach and Attack Simulation Tools Are Must-Have for Modern Security

Cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and impactful while traditional security assessment methods struggle to keep pace. The limitations of these legacy practices leave organizations exposed to undetected vulnerabilities, such as misconfigurations in security measures.

BAS tools address this challenge by continuously stress-testing security controls against real-life adversarial behaviors in a non-destructive manner. They also offer vendor-specific and neutral mitigation suggestions, streamlining remediation efforts and reducing the risk of disruptive patches

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Essential Features of BAS Tools to Maximize ROI

Not all BAS tools are the same. When selecting a BAS solution that offers the highest return on benefits, there are a few key criteria to consider.
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Threat simulation across the entire attack kill chain.
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Up-to-date threat library includes known and emerging threats observed in malware and threat actor campaigns.
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Continuous and automated simulations can run without customization while also providing maximum flexibility to create custom scenarios as needed.
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Direct and actionable mitigation suggestions, including both vendor-specific and vendor-neutral insights.
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Real-time, customized reporting to communicate gaps in security posture to decision-makers effectively, providing data-driven evidence to justify security investments.
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Mapping to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and other relevant industry standards.
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10 Criteria for Choosing the Right BAS Solution

Find out which BAS solution best fits your needs.
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Picus Approach to Breach and Attack Simulation

By simulating thousands of threats and attack techniques, Picus provides assurance that your prevention and detection controls are working as you need them to.
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Comprehensive threat library, actively updated every day by offensive security experts, to proactively test your defenses against current and emerging attack strategies.

Go beyond identifying prevention and detection gaps. Leverage thousands of mitigation recommendations, including vendor-specific prevention signatures and detection rules, to optimize your controls effectively.

Automatically maps simulation results against the MITRE ATT&CK framework to quickly identify gaps and prioritize mitigation techniques that pose the most significant risk.

With automated reporting and insightful dashboard visualizations, quickly assess your threat readiness and monitor performance trends over time. 

Why Security Leaders Choose Picus

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Actionable Prevention and Mitigation Suggestions
The only BAS tool offering pre-tested, actionable, and easy-to-implement prevention and detection signatures ensures accuracy and reliability for vendor-neutral and vendor-specific solutions. Unlike vendors that provide unverified outputs, such as Sigma rule converters, Picus rigorously pre-tests vendor-specific signatures to ensure they work as intended.
Only generic mitigation recommendations that do not consider your security stack. 
Detection Analytics
Eliminate manual log reviews by automatically displaying critical information about when an attack started, was logged, detected, and blocked.
Lack of features that allow users to validate their logs and alerts in SIEM or EDR for simulated attacks. 
Response to Emerging Threats
Rapid incorporation of emerging threats into the Picus Threat Library within 24 hours, guaranteed under an SLA, provided there is publicly available Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit code.
Slow to introduce new threats, leaving users vulnerable to new attack vectors and increasing risk exposure. 

Platform Scope

Access to different products with great synergy under a single platform, including Breach and Attack Simulation, Automated Pentesting, Cloud Security Validation, and Detection Rule Validation.

Limited to a single use case, either automated pentesting or BAS. They lack many capabilities in Picus, such as mature detection analytics capabilities. 
Flexible Licensing
Modular and adaptable licensing options allow you to select features that align with your needs, optimizing cost-efficiency.
Inflexible licensing structures, non-modular offerings, or high base costs can lead to inefficient license usage and additional user expenses.
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Individually Licensable Attack Modules

Test your controls against a regularly maintained attack library, comprising thousands of real-world threats and attack actions.
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Validate that malware and ransomware, downloaded via client-side attacks, is prevented and detected.

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Test the effectiveness of your controls to block malicious links and attachments.

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Gauge if your defenses are capable of blocking code injection, denial of service and brute force attacks.

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Validate that scenario attacks by threat groups, including APTs, are identified by endpoint security controls.

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Assess whether your defenses can prevent the exfiltration of sensitive personal and financial information.

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Frequently Asked Questions

An effective Breach and Attack Simulation tool must provide extensive threat simulations across pre and post-compromise stages, frequent library updates to match evolving cyber threats, customizable simulations for specific needs, diverse integration and reporting features, and alignment with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, all crucial for a resilient security posture.

BAS tools provide continuous testing of security controls, integrate the MITRE ATT&CK framework for strategic insights, and deliver actionable results with targeted mitigation suggestions, enhancing overall cybersecurity effectiveness.

To choose the right breach and attack simulation tool for your organization, evaluate its ability to continuously test security controls, its integration with a diverse range of security controls, and the actionability and relevance of its results and mitigation suggestions to your specific security needs.

Consider using breach and attack simulation tools when you need continuous and automated security assessments to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats and to ensure security controls are effective against real-world attack scenarios.