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The $18.25 Million Security Bet That Asks One Rude Question: Do Your Defenses Actually Work?
SCYTHE grew from a one-off tool built with Target into a platform for continuously testing the security stack companies already own. Its sharpest idea is also its least comfortable: a control is only as good as the last realistic attack it caught.
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.