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The Security Alert That Had to Prove Itself
Ridge Security sells a sharper answer to the vulnerability backlog: show the attack path, then decide what deserves a fix. Its bet is that proof travels farther inside a company than another red warning on a dashboard.
The Safest Way to Break a Company
SafeBreach built a business by asking an impolite question: after all that security spending, do the defenses actually work? Its answer is to attack them, continuously, before somebody else does.
Alper Memis
H. Alper Memis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Picus Security, the company that pioneered Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology. A mathematician-turned-financial-analyst-turned-cybersecurity-CEO, Memis co-founded Picus in 2013 in Ankara, Turkey alongside two university friends — combining a rare background in sovereign debt management, financial risk, and a CFA designation with the mission to replace assumption-based security with continuous, evidence-based defense validation. Under his leadership, Picus has raised $80M in total funding (including a $45M Series C in 2024), serves 500+ enterprise customers including Mastercard, Visa, and Vodafone, and has simulated over one billion cyberattacks.