# Picus Security

> Picus Security is the cybersecurity company behind the Picus Security Validation Platform - an Adversarial Exposure Validation system that continuously simulates real-world attacks against an organization's defenses to expose which ones actually work. Founded in 2013 by three Turkish mathematicians and now headquartered in San Francisco, Picus serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard and is the official Exposure Validation Partner of Juventus.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** H. Alper Memiş (Co-founder & CEO), Volkan Ertürk (Co-founder & CTO), Süleyman Özarslan (Co-founder & VP of Picus Labs)
- **Team size:** ~290 employees
- **Products:** Picus Security Validation Platform, Security Control Validation, Attack Path Validation, Detection Rule Validation, Cloud Security Validation
- **Notable:** Simulated more than 1 billion real-world cyberattacks against customer environments, $80M+ total funding raised since founding, Tripled Americas business in 12 months prior to Series C

## Products & services

- **Picus Security Validation Platform** — Unified Adversarial Exposure Validation platform combining BAS, automated pen testing and detection rule validation.
- **Security Control Validation** — Continuously tests prevention and detection controls against thousands of real-world attack scenarios mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
- **Attack Path Validation** — Discovers exploitable attack paths an adversary could take from an initial foothold to high-value assets.
- **Detection Rule Validation** — Audits SIEM and EDR rules for performance and coverage gaps.
- **Cloud Security Validation** — Tests cloud-specific controls and configurations against cloud-native attack techniques.
- **Attack Surface Validation** — Continuously inventories internal and external assets to spot exposure before attackers do.
- **Numi AI** — Natural-language AI assistant that lets security teams query validation data and prioritize remediation conversationally.

## Achievements

- Simulated more than 1 billion real-world cyberattacks against customer environments
- $80M+ total funding raised since founding
- Tripled Americas business in 12 months prior to Series C
- Recognized in Gartner reports on Breach and Attack Simulation and Continuous Threat Exposure Management
- Picus Labs Red Report widely cited across the industry

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Raised $45M Series C led by Riverwood Capital to scale Adversarial Exposure Validation.
- **2024** — Launched Numi AI, a natural-language assistant inside the Picus platform.
- **2025** — Announced partnership as Official Exposure Validation Partner of Juventus FC.

## Links

- Website: https://www.picussecurity.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/picus-security
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/PicusSecurity
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PicusSecurity
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Picus-Security-1542743372678421/

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Last updated: 2026-05-23